388 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 6 



Charles H. Gable, entomologist and horticulturist for an Ottawa Kansas nursery, 

 has been appointed by the government of Portugal to go to the Maderia Islands, 

 to supervise work on the large fruit farms. 



Mr. U. C. Loftin, formerly laboratory assistant in entomology at the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station at Gainesville, Fla., is now an assistant in the Bureau of 

 Entomology, and is stationed at Audubon Park, New Orleans, La. 



Tliree of the recent graduates of the Mississippi Agricultural College, N. D. 

 Guerry, J. C. Treloar, and H. O. French, are temporarily employed by the Bureau 

 of Entomology and are now located at Tellulah, La., and are engaged in boll-weevil 

 work. 



The following changes have taken place recently in the Federal Horticultural 

 Board: A. V. Stubenrauch succeeds Peter Bisset, and Dr. W. D. Hunter succeeds 

 A. F. Burgess. Mr. Burgess resides in Melrose, Mass., and it was inconvenient for 

 him to attend the meetings of the Board. 



Professors Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University, Alexander D. MacGillivray, 

 University of Illinois and Mr. Charles P. Alexander, Cornell University, will spend 

 their summer vacations at the Agricultural Experiment Station at Orono, Me., and 

 each will study the insects of the special group in which he is an authority. 



According to Science, Mr. G. N. Wolcott, who is the traveling entomologist sup- 

 ported by the Porto Rico Sugar Growers' Association, is collecting parasites of the 

 white grub to introduce into Porto Rico, where the white grubs are a very serious 

 pest in the cane fields. Mr. Wolcott has his chief headquarters in the United States 

 at the University of Illinois. 



Professor A. L. Melander, Entomologist of Washington State College and Experi- 

 ment Station at Pullman, has been granted a year's leave of absence for purposes 

 of study. During the summer he will be at the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, and during the next college year will study under Dr. W. M. Wheeler at the 

 Bussey Institution of Harvard University, Forest Hills, Mass. 



According to Science, at the twenty-fifth reunion of the class of 1888 of Wash- 

 ington and Jefferson college, on June 17, a library memorial fund was established 

 in honor of Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, U. S. A., a member of the class, who left before 

 graduation to study medicine and who afterward became a member of the commis- 

 sion to investigate the role of the mosquito in the transmission of yellow fever, 

 and sacrificed his life to the cause of scientific research. 



A new organization is the Audubon Entomological Club, the first meeting of which 

 was held at the office of the Bureau of Entomology at Audubon Park, New Orleans, 

 La., on May 27, 1913. The general purpose of the Club will be the discussion 

 of entomological subjects, especially in connection with the work of the various 

 members. The Club will be entirely informal, and will have neither a constitution 

 nor officers. The members, most of whom are connected with the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, are the following: Messrs. E. R. Barber, J. R. Horton, W. V. King, T. E. 

 Holloway and Dr. Wm. E. Cross. 



A hearing was held before the Federal Horticultural Boai'd, at Washington, D. C, 

 June 12, at 10 o'clock A. M. The question of extending the present quarantine lines 

 in the New England States, on account of the spread of the gypsy and brown-tail 

 moths, was considered. 



In addition to the inembers of the Board the following entomologists were present: 

 W. C. O'Kane, Durham, N. H.; A. F. Burgess, D. M. Rogers and L. H. Worthley, 

 Boston, Mass.; W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn.; E. D. Sanderson, Morgantown, 

 W. Va., Congressman Roberts of Massichusstts, and a number of Christmas tree ' 

 shippers were present. 



Issued August 15, 1913. 



