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Mr. William Moore of Cornell University, who for the past three years has been 

 in South Africa, has accepted a position in the Entomological Division, Agricultural 

 College, University of Minnesota, and has charge of the Section of Truck Crop 

 and Greenhouse Insects and of the Insectary of the Division. 



Mr. Leroy Childs, field assistant of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, and a graduate of Leland Stanford University, class 

 of 1913, has recently been appointed assistant secretary of the California State 

 Horticultural Commis.sion. 



Mr. Sherman W. Bilsing, formerly Fellow in the Department of Zoology and 

 Entomology at the Ohio State University, has been appointed to the position of 

 instructor in entomology at the A. & M. College of Texas. Mr. Bilsing assumed 

 the duties of his new position on August 15. 



Dr. P. R. Uhler, author of many papers on Hemiptera, died October 21, at the 

 age of seventy-eight. Dr. Uhler described many American species of insects, esp«- 

 cially Hemiptera; for twenty-two years he has been provost of the Peabody Institute 

 at Baltimore. 



H. M. Russell, after an absence of a few months on furlough, has returned to 

 continue his work with the Bureau of Entomology. He is now in the Salt River 

 VaUey of Arizona, engaged in sugar beet leaf hopper investigations. Address, 

 Office of the State Entomologist, Phoenix, Ariz. 



Messrs. E. W. Laake and L. J. Bower, recent graduates of the Texas Agricultural 

 College, have accepted positions in the Bureau of Entomology. Mr. Bower is at 

 present located at the Bureau laboratory at Wellington, Kan., and Mr. Laake is 

 engaged in the boll-weevil investigations at the Bureau laboratory in Dallas, Texas. 



Benjamin W. Douglass, formerly state entomologist of Indiana, is entomological 

 expert, and Frank Wallace, formerly assistant state entomologist, is secretary and 

 treasurer, of the State Forestry Company, Indianapolis, Ind., a company formed 

 to do business in landscape gardening, tree surgery, and to give advice in all horti- 

 cultural matters. 



Dr. J. F. Illingworth, professor of entomology in the College of Hawaii, spent three 

 months in the Fiji Islands during the past summer. He went in the interest of the 

 Colonial Sugar Refining Company, taking down a large colony of the Tachinid fhes, 

 which have proved such effective parasites of the sugar-cane borer in the Hawaiian 

 Islands. The flies did splendidly in the cages in Fiji and a number of good sized colo- 

 nies were liberated in the infested districts. 



The State Horticultural Commission of California has recently placed a quaran- 

 tine on the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New 

 Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro- 

 lina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Illinios, Kansas, Arkansas, Nevada, 

 and Florida, on account of the diseases known as "Peach Yellows" and "Contagious 

 Peach Rosette." 



Mr. Alfred B. Champlain, assistant in the Division of Economic Zoology, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., resigned September 1, to accept a similar posi- 

 tion in the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. He will work on forest insect investigations under Dr.- A. D. 

 Hopkins, and is soon to travel through Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, studying 

 forest insect conditions there. 



Mailed December 15, 1913 



