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An estimate has been prepared for the Urgent Deficiency Bill of this session, calling 

 for an appropriation of $500,000 to still further safeguard the United States from the 

 pink bollworm. A conference was held on July 17 on this work, participated in by 

 representatives appointed by the Governor of Texas, namely, the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture and Messrs. Ayers and SchoU, and by Mr. Paddock, representing the 

 experiment station, and Mr. Ousley, temporarily acting as Assistant to the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, representing the state at large and particularly the State Extension 

 Service. There was also present a committee of planters, representing the Lower 

 Rio Grande Valley. The work proposed under the appropriation requested is the 

 estabhshment of a cotton-free zone in Texas along the Mexican border, the survey 

 and stamping out of local points of infestation in Mexico near the Texas border, and 

 general surveys of the infested district in the Laguna and elsewhere in Mexico to be 

 the basis of determining the advisabihty of undertaking exterminative work against 

 the pink bollworm in Mexico generally. 



The following appointments to the Bureau of Entomology have been made re- 

 cently: Robert B. McKeown, a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural College 

 assigned to deciduous fruit insect investigations to be located in Texas; Warren D. 

 Whitcomb, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultm-al College, deciduous fruit 

 insect investigations. Northern States; WilUam O. Ellis, Syracuse University, de- 

 ciduous fruit insect investigations, Riverton, N. J.; Chester I. Bliss, field assistant, 

 deciduous fruit insect investigations, Sandusky, Ohio; F. S. Chamberhn, southern 

 field crop insect investigations, Quincy, Fla.; G. D. Pylant, southern field crop in- 

 sect investigations, Madison, Fla.; George E. Quinter, southern field crop insect 

 investigations, Clarksville, Tenn.; J. W. Bailey, cereal and forage insect investiga- 

 tions, Tempe, Ariz.; P. H. Hertzog, cereal and forage insect investigations, Carlisle, 

 Pa.; Frederick W. Poos, cereal and forage insect investigations, Charlottesville, 

 Va.; W. C. Cartwright, cereal and forage insect investigations, Knoxville, Tenn.; 

 H. L. Dozier, a graduate of the University of South Carolina, cereal and forage insect 

 investigations, Tempe, Ariz.; H. R. Shoemaker, truck crop insect investigations, 

 Arlington, Va. 



Zoological Record: a correction. In the May 1917 Monthly Letter of the Bureau 

 of Entomology a note appeared saying the Zoological Record, London, had temporarily 

 suspended publication. This word was received by the Smithsonian Institution 

 through its London agents. We are glad to learn now through a letter to Dr. How- 

 ard, imder date of May 21, from Mr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, Secretary of the Zoolog- 

 ical Society of London, that this is a mistake. The 1915 volume of the Record wiU 

 appear soon and the 1916 volume is in preparation. The Society has no intention of 

 letting the Record be suspended. 



Mabel Colcord, 

 Librarian, Bureau of Entomology. 



Mailed October 20, 1917. 



