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Prof. S. J. Hunter of the University of Kansas was elected a member of the Board 

 of Education of the City of Lawrence, at the recent election, April 1. 



N. E. Shaw, chief nursery inspector of Ohio, held a public demonstration of pruning 

 and spraying at the orchard of D. J. Cable, German Township, April 9-10. 



George A. Smith, government agricultural demonstration agent, has been ap- 

 pointed inspector of nurseries and orchards for the Beaumont district, Texas. 



Prof. R. W. Doane of the Department of Entomology and Bionomics in Leland 

 Stanford Jr. University is investigating certain pests of the cocoanut trees of Samoa at 

 the request of ,some of the growers. 



The department of entomology. University of Nebraska, will soon be housed in a 

 new building that will cost $85,000, and which will also contain the departments 

 of horticulture and of agricultural botany. 



Dr. Henry T. Fernald, professor of entomology, Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, sailed April 28 for Europe where he will visit a number of museums to examine 

 type material, returning to America about the middle of September. 



Paul Smith Welch, A. M., fellow in zoology. University of Illinois, will give in- 

 struction in entomology during the summer at the Biological Station of the University 

 of Michigan, Cheboj-gan County, Michigan. 



The honorary' degree of D. Sc was conferred upon Prof. E. B. Poulton, on the 

 occasion of the installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chancellor of Durham 

 University. 



Dr. C. D. Jarvis, horticulturist of the Storrs Station in Connecticut, has severed 

 his connection with the station and will have charge of the agricultural extension 

 work of the state conducted jointly by the United States Department of Agriculture 

 and the Connecticut Agricultural College. 



A school for beekeepers was held at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, May 

 28 to June 11, under the direction of Dr. Burton N. Gates. Doctor Gates attended 

 the annual meeting of the Connecticut Beekeeper's Association at Hartford, Conn.,. 

 April 19. 



A State Crop Pest Commission has recently been established in West Virginia with 

 an appropriation of $10,000 per annum. This commission is composed of the director 

 of the station, the commissioner of agriculture, the president of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society and the station entomologist is ex officio State Entomologist. 



Announcement is made of a beekeeper's convention to be held at the Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, Mass., June 11 and 12. The program includes papers by Dr. B. N. 

 Gates, E. R. Root, Morley Pettit, Ontario, Can.; Dr. Chas. G. Schamu, Syracuse^ 

 N. Y., and many New England beekeepers and apiary inspectors. 



Mr. James F. Zimmer, formerly in charge of the insecticide testing laboratory 

 of the Bureau of Entomology at Vienna, Va. has resigned in order to accept a 

 position as assistant state leader in farm management at Manistee, Mich. His 

 duties will be to assist the fruit growers and farmers along the eastern shore of 

 Lake Michigan. 



Mr. Donald J. Caffrey, who for three years has been a.ssistant to the State Ento- 

 mologist of Connecticut, in charge of the field work against the gypsy and brown-tail 

 moth, resigned May 15 to accept a position in the Bureau of Entomology, in connec- 

 tion with cereal and forage insect investigations. He has been assigned to work on 

 the range caterpillar in New Mexico. 



