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Va. Mr. O'Kane will also be Professor of Economic Entomology in the New Hamp- 

 shire College. 



Mr, John A. Grossbeck, Assistant in the mosquito work of the New Jersey Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at New Brunswick, N. J., resigned his position August 

 1st to accept a position as Assistant in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology of the 

 American Museum of Natural History of New York City. 



Mr. J. B. Garrett, Assistant Entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Baton Rouge, La., has been made Entomologist of the same station, succeeding 

 Mr. Newell, who resigned to accept a position as State Entomologist of Texas. Mr. 

 Newell's new position has already been noted in this Journal (see page 111). 



L. M. Peairs, Assistant in Entomology at the Maryland Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has been appointed assistant entomologist of the Kansas Station. 



Prof. C. H. Fernald of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, owing to the in- 

 firmities of advancing years, has retired from active work and has been appointed 

 Honorary Director of the Graduate School. He has been connected with the insti- 

 tution for twenty-four years and a goodly number of our more promising, younger 

 entomologists have received their preliminary training under his direction. His son, 

 Prof. H. T. Fernald has been appointed Acting Director of the Graduate School and 

 also succeeds his father as Entomologist of the Station. 



Dr. E. A. Bach has been appointed State Entomologist of Virginia and Ento- 

 mologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Dr. Burton E. Gates has been appointed to the newly established position of As- 

 sistant Professor of Bee Culture at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and 

 State Inspector of Apiaries. 



E. G. Titus, Entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah, is 

 spending a year's leave of absence in special study at Harvard University. 



Mailed, October 15, 1910. 



