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According to the Review oj Applied Entomology, Mr. F, H. Taylor of the Australian 

 Institute of Tropical Medicine has been appointed entomologist to the Special Blow- 

 Fly Committee of the Federal Bureau of Science and Industry at Queensland. 



■ Mr. K. L. Cockerham of the Bureau of Entomology, who is experimenting with 

 heat control of the sweet potato weevil in Mississippi, reports promising results from 

 some of his recent experiments against the weevil in stored tubers. 



Dr. J. C. Hutson, formerly of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, Barbadoes, 

 British West Indies, has been appointed government entomologist of Ceylon with 

 headquarters at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon, and wiU soon enter 

 upon his duties. 



Mr. E. W. Scott in charge of the Vienna, Va., laboratory of the Federal Insecticide 

 Board was granted an indefinite furlough to enter the Quartermaster's Corps of the 

 army where he was granted a commission as first lieutenant. 



Mr. George M. Anderson, formerly assistant to the state entomologist of South 

 Carolina, has been appointed extension entomologist by the Bureau of Entomology 

 and assigned to North Carolina, where he will carry on extension work in the whole- 

 field of economic entomology. 



Mr. Irving W. Davis has been discharged from military service where he was a. 

 corporal in the U. S. Marine Corps, stationed at Paris Island, S. C. He has resumed 

 his former work in charge of the gipsy moth field work in Connecticut, with head- 

 quarters at Danielson. 



Mr. V. I. Safro has been discharged from military service, where he held a commis- 

 sion as second lieutenant in the Aviation Corps, and will resume his former position 

 as entomologist for the Kentucky Tobacco Products Company, Louisville, Ky. On 

 his return he visited a number of economic entomologists in the Eastern States. 



Dr. J. M. Aldrich who has recently been attached to the West Lafayette, Ind., 

 laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology has been transferred to Washington, D. C, 

 to fill a vacancy on the miscellaneous roll of the Bureau caused by the death of Mr. 

 Frederick Knab, as honorary custodian of the non-muscoid Diptera in the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips and Mr. George S. Demuth spent a large part of the months of 

 November and December in California where they investigated the bee-keeping 

 possibiHties of the National Forest Reserves in Southern California. They then took 

 part in the extension schools for commercial bee-keepers at San Diego, Davis, Visalia, 

 and Riverside. 



The Entomological Society of America did not hold its usual series of meetings for 

 the reading and discussion of papers this year. Two brief sessions were held at 

 Baltimore for the transaction of the necessary business. The following officers were 

 elected for the coming year: President, James G. Needham; First Vice-President, 

 James W. Folsom; Second Vice-President, R. V. Chamberlain; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 J. M. Aldrich. 



Mr. AUen B. Duckett, assistant entomologist in the Bureau of Entomology and 

 connected with the Stored-Product Insect Investigations, died from pneimionia. 

 October 8, 1918. Mr. Duckett was a graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College, 

 had been connected with the Bureau of Entomology for more than seven years, and 

 at the time of his death was engaged in inspecting army stores at the port of New 

 York. 



