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has recently been appointed professor of zoology at the University of Illinois. He 

 will there have charge of the vertebrates. 



Mr. Daj'ton Stoner, instructor in zoology at the State University of Iowa, spent 

 the summer in the insectary of the Iowa Experiment Station at Ames. 



Sir Patrick Manson, at the recent International Medical Congress, was presented 

 with a gold plaque sjTnbolical of triumph over tropical diseases. 



Dr. W. L. Tower, of the University of Chicago, has been made curator of the new 

 bionomic laboratory, and has gone to South America to collect material for it. 



Professor Ernest Walker, formerh' of the University of Kansas, has recently been 

 appointed head of the horticultural department of the Alabama College and Station. 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, professor of zoology at the University of Colorado at 

 Boulder, was given the honorary degree of Sc.D. by Colorado College at its last com- 

 mencement in June. 



Colonel William C. Gorgas has been invited to visit Johannesburg, South Africa, 

 to advise regarding sanitary conditions there. He has asked for a leave of absence 

 that he may accept the invitation. 



Professor C. E. Bartholomew of the Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, had 

 charge of the instruction in entomologj^ at the Macbride Lakeside Laboratory on 

 West Lake, Okoboji, Iowa, during the summer. 



Mr. IM. P. Somes, assistant entomologist of the South Carolina Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, has been appointed entomologist of the Missouri Fruit . Experiment 

 Station at Mountain Grove, Mo., where he should now be addressed. 



Professor H. A. Morgan, Director of the Tennessee Station, visited Europe in the 

 summer as a member of the Southern Commercial Congress, to study the rural credit 

 systems there. 



Mr. G. P. Weldon has resigned as assistant entomologist of the Colorado Station 

 and instructor in the college, to accept a position as Chief Deputy Commissioner of 

 Horticulture in California, succeeding Mr. Geo. E. ]Merrill. 



Mr. Ii-\'ing W. Davis, B.S., a graduate in 1911, of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College at Amherst, Mass., has been appointed assistant in entomology at the Con- 

 necticut Station at New Haven, and has taken up his work there. 



Mr. A. C. Mason, B. S., a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, class of 

 1913, has been appointed laboratory assistant in entomology under Professor J. R. 

 Watson, at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Gainesville, Fla., and began his 

 work July 1. 



Dr. A. D. Ihms has been appointed Reader in Agricultural Entomology in the 

 Victoria University of Manchester, England. He was formerly professor of biology 

 in the L'niversity of Allahabad and afterwards Forest Entomologist to the Govern- 

 ment of India at the Imperial Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India. 



Mr. W. O. Ellis, instructor in zoology at the Iowa State College, has gone to Wash- 

 ington State College as instructor in zoology and assistant in entomology in the 

 experiment station. Mr. Ellis served as an insectary assistant at the Iowa station 

 during the past summer. 



According to Science Dr. J. E. Wodsedalek, formerly of the zoological department 

 of the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed professor of zoology and head of 

 the department of zoology and entomology at the University of Idaho, Moscow, 

 Idaho, as a successor to J. M. Aldrich. 



Professor C. T. Brues, Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Mass., was a member of a 

 special expedition to Peru led by Dr. Richard P. Strong, from the Harvard Medical 

 School, to study infectious diseases of South and Central America. The party sailed 

 from New York April 30th and will return in the fall. 



Paul S. Welch Ph. D. has been appointed instructor in the college and assistant 



