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Burrill, Washington, extension work to cereal and forage insect investigations; C. H. 

 Batchelder, extension work, Maine, to truck crop insect investigations; W. T. Ham, 

 extension work, Washington, to truck insect investigations; R. A. Epperson, Ala- 

 bama, temporarily to work on the pink boUworm in Texas. 



Mr. Warren Williamson has resigned as instructor in entomology and assistant 

 entomologist at the Minnesota University and Station. 



According to Science Dr. J. F. Abbott, professor of zoology at Washington Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed commercial attach^ to the American Embassy at Tokyo and 

 will leave for Japan in February. 



According to the Experiment Station Record, the Misses Emily H. Payne, Ida R. 

 Saul and Anna Wentz have been appointed assistants in entomology at the Minne- 

 sota University and Station to replace men who were called to miUtary service. 



According to Science at the annual meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 

 held on January 16, the following officers were elected for 1919: President, Mr. W. T. 

 Bather; Vice-President, Mr. W. T. Davis; Treasurer, Mr. C. E. Olsen; Recording 

 Secretary, Dr. J. Bequaert; Corresponding Secretary, Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno; 

 Librarian, Mr. A. C. Weeks; Curator, Mr. George Frank; Publication Committee, 

 Messrs. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, Charles Schaeffer and George Engelhardt. 



According to Science Dr. James A. Nelson has resigned his position as expert in the 

 Bureau of Entomology, though he will still be coimected with the Bureau as collab- 

 orator, and will make his home near Moimt Vernon, Ohio, where he will give his 

 attention to farming. 



Mr. R. L. Webster, formerly of the entomological department of the Iowa College 

 and Station, is now at the entomological department of Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., where he holds an industrial fellowship, and is working on the practicability 

 of fumigation of deciduous fruit trees with hydrocyanic acid gas. 



Mr. Frank D. Heckathorn, deputy inspector, Bureau of Horticulture, Department 

 of Agriculture of Ohio, died December 18 after a short illness with influenza. He 

 was graduated from the Ohio State University in 1906. Mr. Heckathorn was a care- 

 ful, conscientious worker who gained the respect of everyone with whom he came in 

 contact, 



European corn borer conferences have been numerous since the discovery of this 

 pest in New York State. The first was held at Albany, February 7, and was attended 

 by three representatives of the Federal Bureau of Entomology, and a number of 

 New York entomologists. A second occurred at Washington, February 12th, at 

 which time Messrs. O'Kane, Sanders, Reynolds, of the American Plant Pest Com- 

 mittee, and Felt conferred with the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Doctor 

 Howard of the Bureau of Entomology. There was a third the next day at Ithaca, 

 attended by New York entomologists and agriculturists followed by a fourth at 

 Albany, February 18th. The outcome of recent activities and interest has been the 

 adoption by the State of New York of an aggressive poUcy toward this new menace 

 and a material increase in the amount recommended by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 for use in control or extermination work. 



Mailed February 28, 1919 



