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Lieut. W. H. Larrimer of the Bureau of Entomology has returned from army serv- 

 ice and resumed work at LaFayette, Ind., where he will be in charge of the field labora- 

 tory in place of Mr. J. J. Davis, who has been transferred to New Jersey. 



Dr. H. M. Parshley has been promoted to an associate professorship in the Depart- 

 ment of Zoology at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. He has also been appointed 

 associate in field zoology at the Cold Spring Harbor summer laboratory. 



Mr. Paul A. Mader, who was engaged in white pine bhster rust scouting in Penn- 

 sylvania, and volunteered for service, and was stationed at Newport News in Sanitary 

 Corps work, has returned to the Bureau of Economic Zoology at Harrisburg. 



Mr. Kenyon F. Chamberlain has been appointed assistant in entomology at the 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn. Mr. Chamberlain 

 was employed temporarily by the station during the summer and early fall of 1918. 



Sergeant H. M. Fort has been discharged from military service where he was in 

 charge of the Laboratory at the Base Hospital at Camp Gordon, Ga., and will take 

 up special bacteriological investigations in entomology at the University of Missouri. 



Prof. H. A. Gossard of the Ohio Station addressed the Paper Shell Pecan Growers' 

 Association at Chicago, March 8. One other address was given the same evening 

 by Mr. C. A. Reed of Washington, nut culturist of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Messrs. J. E. Graf and C. H. Popenoe, of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, and at 

 present engaged in eradicating the Sweet Potato Root Weevil in Baker County, Fla., 

 were present at the meeting of the Florida Entomological Society held on the evening 

 of March 3, 1919. 



Mr. J. L. King, after seven months' service in the U. S. Army, has returned to the 

 Pennsylvania Bureau of Zoology, Harrisburg, and will be engaged in fruit insect pest 

 investigations at Chambersburg, Pa., where the bureau will maintain a field labora- 

 tory during the growing season. 



Dr. Leonard Haseman and Instructor K. C. SulHvan, of the Department of En- 

 tomology of the Missouri University, are completing plans for taking a class of re- 

 search students into the swamp sections of the state during the spring term, to study 

 mosquito and malarial problems. 



Mr. Albert Hartzell has been discharged from the army service where he was a 

 corporal in the Infantry, and has resvuned his position as instructor in the Depart- 

 ment of Zoology and Entomology of the Iowa State College. Mr. Hartzell's name 

 was omitted from the Roll of Honor. 



Mr. W. H. Goodwin, formerly of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, visited 

 the Station, March 7. Mr. Goodwin has been employed in extermination work 

 directed against the Japanese beetle at Riverton, N. J., but recently has been 

 transferred to extension work in that state. 



Prof. Lawrence Bruner, head of the Department of Entomology, University of 

 Nebraska, is now on leave of absence in CaUfornia in an effort to regain his health. 

 He is now considerably improved. During his absence, departmental activities are 

 in charge of Professor Myron H. Swenk. 



Messrs. R. H. Hutchinson, E. R. Sasscer and E. A. Back of the Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy have been designated as a committee to act in cooperation with a committee 

 from the Bureau of Chemistry to investigate the possible utilization of poisonous 

 gases used in warfare for fumigation against insects. 



