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ture will be devoted to chemistry, the entomological department of the sta- 

 tion will have convenient qnarters on the second floor, consisting of office, 

 collection room and laboratory with dark room and small insectary con- 

 nected, giving altogether about 1,400 square feet of floor space. As the corre- 

 sponding space on the lower floor is to be occupied by the botanical depart- 

 ment, all the collections of the station will hereafter be housed in a fire- 

 proof building. In the basement an exhibition room about 20 x 26 feet will 

 be used to display pumps, insecticides and fungicides. 



From the March Entomological News we learn of the death of Mr. Henry 

 Ulke of Washington, D. C, on February 18th. Mr. Ulke was 89 years of age 

 and was a well known Coleopterist and portrait-painter. 



Professor Charles H. Fernakl of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Amherst, Mass., who has been quite ill since December, is now able to be out 

 again. 



Entomological News for March, records the death at San Francisco in 

 February of Mr. George Willis Kirkaldy of Honolulu, H. I. Mr. Kirkaldy was 

 a well known Hemipterist, and the first volume of his catalogue of the 

 Hemiptera of the world has already been published. Mr. Kirkaldy was 35 

 years of age. He was one of the active members of our association. 



Mr. F. A. Johnston, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, has accepted a position with the Bureau of Entomology at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Work is progressing rapidly on the new Entomological building of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. This building is now 

 roofed in and is expected to be finished some time next summer. It is large, 

 commodious and fire-proof. We hope to publish a detailed description of the 

 building in a future number of the Journal. 



Mr. H. O. Marsh of the branch of Truck-Crop and Stored-Product Insect- 

 Investigations of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Argicul- 

 ture, has resumed work at Rocky Ford, Colorado, where he had headquarters 

 last year. 



Mr. A. B. Massey, B. S., a graduate of the North Carolina A. & M. Col- 

 lege, has been appointed laboratory assistant in Entomology at the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Gainesville, Florida, and entered upon his new 

 duties the last week in January. 



Prof. E. P. Taylor has resigned his position as Entomologist of the Moun- 

 tain Grove Experiment Station in Missouri, to take up the horticultural in- 

 spection work in Mesa County, Colorado; his post office address is Grand 

 Junction. The county is paying $2,000 a year for this work. 



Mr. George P. Weldon, formerly an assistant in the Maryland Agricultural 

 College, and a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural College, is also located 

 in Grand Junction and is acting as field Entomologist for the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Fort Collins. 



Mr. Donald J. Caffrey, graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 and a graduate student of its Entomological department, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as assistant to the State Entomologist of Connecticut. Mr. Caffrey en- 

 tered upon his duties January 17th and will have charge locally of the Gypsy 

 Moth Suppression work at Wallingford. 



Mailed April 15, 1910. 



