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Science is authority for the statement that "The teachers of the Norman School at 

 Avignon, of which M. J. H. Fabre, the entomologist, was a pupil, are taking steps to 

 erect a monument in his honor. The council of Vaucluse has voted 1,500 francs to 

 the fund." 



Mr. S. S. Grossman, entomologist of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture 

 of Porto Rico, has recently moved his residence from San Juan to Aibonito. He is 

 engaged in studying the tobacco insects of Porto Rico, the two worst ones being the 

 mole cricket, Scapteriscus didactylus and a species of flea beetle. 



According to Science, J. M. Aldrich, professor of Zoology and Entomology at the 

 Vniversity of Idaho, has been forced to retire after twenty years' service. The 

 details of this action are explained by Professor Vernon L. Kellogg in Science for 

 IVIay 16, page 751. Professor Aldrich, who is an eminent dipterist, has accepted a 

 position with the Bureau of Entomology at Washington. 



Michigan has recently enacted a new Foul Brood Law with an annual appropria- 

 tion of $1,500, which should provide for effective work. Tliough the administration 

 of this measure is under the State Board of Agriculture, this board has placed it in 

 direct charge of Prof. R. H. Pettit, entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, who has appointed Mr. McMillen, of Guelph, Ontario, as inspector. 



Dr. M. C. Tanquary, instructor in entomology at the Kansas State Agricultural 

 College and assistant entomologist in the Kansas State Experiment Station, has been 

 granted a leave of absence and will accompany the Crocker Land Expedition, which 

 is to leave New York City July 2 for the Far North, under the auspices of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History of New York. It is also supported by the American 

 Geographical Society, the University of Illinois, Yale LTniversity, Bowdoin College, 

 New York Academy of Science, and several individuals, including Colonel Roosevelt 

 and Admiral Perry. Doctor Tanquary will have charge of the zoological and botani- 

 cal research work. 



The recent session of the Montana Legislature enacted a law creating the Montana 

 State Board of Entomology, whose duty it is to "study the dissemination by insects 

 of diseases among persons and animals, said investigation having for its purpose the 

 eradication and prevention of such diseases." The board is further required to take 

 steps to eradicate and prevent the spread of diseases that may be transmitted by 

 insects and an appropriation of five thousand dollars a year for the next biennium 

 is made. The immediate object in passing the law was to provide for the eradication 

 of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick. The membership of the board is er 

 officio and is made up of the secretary of the State Board of Health, chairman; the 

 State Entomologist, secretary, and the State Veterinarian. 



According to Science Dr. Paul Marchal, chief of the Entomological Station of Paris,. 

 Professor in the Agronomical Institute of France, and a member of the French Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, landed in New York May 4. He comes to America for the purpose of 

 studj'ing the organization of the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agri- 

 culture at Washington and other organizations working in applied entomology 

 and will remain in the Ignited States for two or three months. Dr. Marchal is es- 

 pecially well known to general students of biology and morphology on account of hi& 

 remarkable researches in polyembryony. In the course of his stay he will visit most 

 parts of the United States. 



Congress has furnished the Bureau of Entomology with funds to be used in the 

 eradication of the tick wliich transmits spotted fever in the Bitter Root Valley in 

 Montana. Doctor H. T. Ricketts demonstrated that the disease is transmitted only 



