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Phlebolomus was the verruga vector. On July 11 he injected a dog with triturated 

 bodies of females of the Phlebolomus, and secured the verruga eruption on July 17 as 

 a result. This is the first case of experimental transmission of the disease through the 

 medium of insects. Details of the case are being published. This investigation has 

 furnished another striking illustration of the value of expert entomological work. 

 For thirty years the medical fraternity of Pei-u has labored to solve the mystery of 

 the origin and transmission of verruga. Yet six months' work by a practical entomol- 

 ogist has definitely indicated the carrier. The result is that the disease loses its 

 mystery and can be confidently guarded against. It was possible to draw up a prac- 

 tical demonstration of Phlebolomus as the transmitting agent from the entomological 

 investigation alone, without waiting for the transmissional proof. The Peruvian 

 authorities are fully alive to the importance of the discovery. 



Mr. D . L. Crawford, Entomologist and Horticulturist of the Mexico Gulf Coast 

 Citrus Fruit Association, located at Apto. 293, Tampico, Mexico, has just issued a 

 circular on the Control of the Orange Maggot. This is the first of a series which 

 may appear at regular intervals and also embody the results of his investigations 

 of other insects. Mr. Crawford will gladly supply this circular upon application 

 by interested parties. 



The Ohip State University has established a course in Applied Entomology and 

 announces a course of study, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree, to cover four 

 years of under-graduate work, including such subjects as Modern Language, Chem- 

 istry, Botany, Zoology, Geology, Horticulture and Agronomy, besides a number in 

 strictly technical Entomological works. It is intended to fit students for technical 

 work in the Bureau of Entomology, Experiment Stations, State and Federal Quar- 

 antine Service or as Investigators in Boards of Health or other professional 

 positions. 



The following notes are copied from The Review of Applied Entomology for August, 

 page 304: 



Mr. R. H. Deakin has been appointed as Assistant Entomologist at Nairobi, East 

 Africa Proctectorate. Mr. F. P. Jepson, Government Entomologist of Fiji, left 

 Java in July, having been there to search for parasites of the Banana Weevil {Cos- 

 mopolites sordidus, Germ.). Dr. W. A. Lamborn has been appointed as Entomologist 

 of the Department of Agriculture, Southern Nigeria, in the place of Mr. A. Peabody 

 (invalided). Mr. Gilbert Storey has been appointed as Assistant Entomologist to 

 the Egyptian Department of Agriculture. The appointment of Mr. F. W. Urich 

 as Entomologist to the Board of Agriculture has been renewed for a further period 

 of two years. The vacant Carnegie Scholarships of the Imperial Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy have been allotted to the following gentlemen: Mr. R. E. McGregor, Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, for two years; Mr. A. R. Ritchie, Glasgow University, for two 

 years; Mr., C. Mason, South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, for one year; and 

 Mr. J. W. Tothill, Assistant Entomologist, Dominion of Canada, for six months. 

 The Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society have arranged to send Mr. 

 W. F. Fiske (lately of the U. S. A. Bureau of Entomology) to East Africa in Septem- 

 ber, for the purpose of studyihg the bionomics of Glossina. 



Mailed October 29, 1913. 



