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memoration of the seventy-fifth year of his Ufe and of the fifty-fifth j-ear of his pub- 

 hshing activities as a naturaUst." More than one hundred attended. 



Mr. J. F. IlUngworth of the Davey School of Tree Surgerj^, began his work Janu- 

 ary 1, 1913, as Professor of Entomology in the University of Hawaii at Honolulu. 

 Mr. Illingworth was formerly at Cornell University where he investigated the apple 

 and cherry maggots. The results of these studies will soon appear in bulletins of 

 the Cornell Station. 



According to Science Professor "Edgar M. Ledyard who spent the past year at the 

 University of Michigan where he put the entomological collection in order and left 

 some sixty thousand PhiUppine insects, has returned to his work as assistant pro- 

 fessor in entomology" in the University of the Pliillippines. 



Prof. P. F. Williams, State Horticulturist of Alabama, died of tuberculosis at 

 Ashville, N. C, December 4, 1912. Professor Wilhams was bom at Natick, Mass., 

 September 15, 1883, was graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 in 1905, and in 1908 assumed the duties of assistant horticulturist at the Alabama 

 Station. Upon the resignation of R. S. Mackintosh in 1910, Williams was appointed 

 State Horticulturist, Professor of horticulture, and head of the department in the 

 college and station. He had charge of the nursery inspection work. A widow and 

 two young children survive him. 



At the recent meeting of the Entomological Society of America, held at Cleveland, 

 December 31 and January 1, the following officers were elected: 



President, Prof. C. J. S. Bethune, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont. 

 First Vice-President, Prof. Philip P. Calvert, University of Pennsylvania. 

 Second Vice-President, Prof. W. M. Marshall, University of Wisconsin. 

 Secretary-Treasurer, Doctor Alex. D. MacGillivray, University of Illinois. 

 Additional members of Executive Committee: 



Prof. Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University. 



Prof. V. L. Kellogg, Stanford University. 



Dr. J. G. Needham, Cornell University. 



C. T. Brues, Bussey Institute, Harvard University. 



Nathan Banks, U. S. National Museum. 



Prof. C. P. Gillette, Director Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Member of Committee on Nomenclature : 

 • E. P. Felt, New York State Entomologist. 



The annual address was given Wednesday evening, January 1, on "An Entomolo- 

 gist in Costa Rica" and was illustrated with lantern sUdes. 



FEDERAL QUARANTINE NOTICE 



Mexican fruit fly {Trypeta Ivdens). Under authority of the Plant Quarantine 

 Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, Hon. James Wilson has declared a quarantine 

 against this insect and forbids the importation into the United States from the 

 Repubhc of Mexico, of the following fruits or their horticultural varieties: Oranges, 

 sweet limes, mangoes, Achras sapotes, peaches, guavas and plums. 



Mailed February 25, 1913. 



