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Mr. J. E. Buck, M. Sc, has been appointed assistant entomologist in the Alabama 

 Experiment Station succeeding Mr. W. F. Turner recently resigned. 



Prof. F. W. Gamble, F. R. S., has been appointed director of a new research de- 

 partment in Agricultural Zoology at the University of Birmingham. 



Col. W. C. Gorgas, has been granted permission by the United States Senate to 

 enter the service of the Republic of Ecuador, for the purpose of cleaning up the 

 port of Guayaquil. 



An excellent article "Sanitation of the Isthmus" of Panama by .Joseph Bucklin 

 Bishop, secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission was published in Scrihner's 

 Magazine for February, page 234. 



According to Science, "Prof. Johnathan Hyatt, known for his contributions on 

 insect anatomy, formerly president of the American Microscopical Society, died at 

 his home in New Rochelle, on December 20, aged eighty-six years. " 



The nursery inspectors of the New England States were invited to attend the 

 meeting of the New England Nurserymen's Association at Worcester, Mass., Feb- 

 ruary 25, and to join in a discussion of the questions of inspection and quarantine. 

 Dr. H. T. Fernald gave a practical and helpful address. 



C. W. Hooker, Ph. D., entomologist of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment 

 Station and Plant Inspector of the Port of Mayaguez, died February 12. Dr. Hooker 

 was a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, class of 1906, and re- 

 ceived his doctor's degree from the same institution in 1909. He was thirty years 

 of age and his death followed an attack of appendicitis. 



Mr. W. F. Turner who has for four and one-half years served as assistant ento- 

 mologist at the Alabama Experiment Station, resigned January 1.5, to accept an 

 appointment under the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. Mr. Turner 

 is now engaged in insecticide testing work and is located at Vienna, Va. 



Prof. Charles H. T. Townsend, government entomologist of Peru, has also been 

 designated director of entomological stations, a central station having been estab- 

 lished at Lima. The station at Piura will be maintained as a branch, and devoted to 

 agricultural entomology, and a station of medical entomology has been established 

 at Chosica. Mr. E. W. Rust has been transferred from Piura to Lima, and Mr. J. G. 

 Caterino has entered the service. The government contract with Professor Townsend 

 has been extended until December 31, 1913, and several graduates of the school of 

 agriculture will be trained to take up the work. 



Mr. C. T. Murphy, for the past five years in charge of the experimental work of 

 Guanica Centrale, Porto Rico, died suddenly of heart failure at his home at hacienda 

 Santa Rita, Guanica, on January 15, 1913. Guanica Centrale is one of the largest 

 sugar estates on the island and in the various plantations of the company Mr. Murphy 

 has carried on extensive experiments to determine the most practical method of con- 

 troling the various sugar-cane pests, and the best varieties and fertilizers for the 

 various soils and conditions. His wide knowledge of sugar-cane culture made his 

 results of interest to all the sugar-cane growers of the island. Mr. Murphy received 

 his training under Mr. J. R. Bovell, Barbados, British West Indies. Aside from his 

 practical work in the control of insect pests of sugar cane, Mr. Murphy took a keen 

 interest in entomology and while he was not so situated that he could work up a 

 collection of his own, he never lost the opportunity to assist the professional workers 

 of the island in every possible way. 



Mailed April 22, 1913. 



