508 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 3 



Prof. H. A. Surface, economic zoologist of Pennsylvania, conducted a series of 

 public meetings in the model orchards throughout the state during the fall. The 

 results of the spraying experiments and demonstrations were studied and explained. 



According to the Experiment Station Record, Mr. D. L. Van Dine of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, and formerly of Honolulu, T. H., has been appointed entomologist 

 of the Porto Rico Sugar Producers' Station, with headquarters at San Juan. 



Miss C. F. Kephart, B. S. A., a graduate of Cornell University in the class of 

 1910, and for two years before graduation a student assistant in entomology, has 

 been appointed assistant in the entomological department of the New Hampshire 

 College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 



Mr. W. S. Abbott, who graduated last June from the New Hampshire College, 

 has accepted the position of assistant entomologist at the New Jersey Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Mr. F. A. Johnson, of the Bureau of Entomology, has been assigned to work at 

 the Virginia Truck Station in place of E. G. Smyth, who has been transferred to 

 other work of the Bureau. 



The Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Col- 

 lege Station, Texas, have recently reestablished the Department of Entomology in 

 that institution. In 1909 the teaching of entomology was placed in the hands of the 

 Biological Department and was under the supervision of the professor of botany. 

 Under the new arrangement the department of entomology is separate and distinct, 

 with Mr. Wilmon Newell as professor of entomology and Mr. Ernest E. SchoU as 

 assistant professor. 



Mr. Arthur I. Bourne, a graduate of Dartmouth College, who took a year of grad- 

 uate study at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and for the past year has been 

 assistant in the Bureau of Entomology at Washington, has returned to the college 

 at Amherst as assistant in entomology. Mr. Bourne will also continue his studies 

 in the graduate school. 



The new building for entomology and zoology at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College at Amherst, Mass., was dedicated November 11, the principal addresses 

 being given by Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology at Washing- 

 ton, and Dr. W. E. Hinds of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. 

 A brief account of the exercises and a description of the building appear on other 

 pages of this number of the Journal. Among other entomologists present besides 

 those residing at Amherst were noticed Dr. E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y., Mr. H, 

 E. Hodgkiss, Geneva, N. Y., Dr. W. E. Britton and Mr. D. J. Caffrey, New Haven, 

 Conn., Mr. C. W. Johnson and Mr. D. M. Rogers, Boston, Mass., Mr. A. F. 

 Burgess, Melrose Highlands, Mass., Mr. A. H. Kirkland, Huntington,Mass., Mr. 

 H. J. FrankUn, Wareham, Mass., and Mr. H. L. Frost, Arhngton, Mass. 



Journal Economic Entomology Publishing Company 

 The annual meeting of the stockholders of this company will be held on Decem- 

 ber 28 or 29, in connection with the meeting of the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists at Minneapolis, Minnesota. The precise time and place will be announced 

 at the sessions of that Association. Members of the advisory board are hereby 

 notified that it devolves upon them to nominate the elective officers. 



E. P. Felt, President. 

 E. DwiGHT Sanderson, Secretary. 



Mailed, December 15, 1910. 



