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of Geology and Paleontology, and Prof. Frank R. Lillie, Department of Zoology, 

 University of Chicago 



Mr. J. R. Stear, formerly of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, visited the 

 Station, March 7. Mr. Stear has been mustered out of the military service and is 

 spending some time with his parents at New Brighton, Pa. He is waiting to see if 

 Ohio can give him fair treatment in w^ay of salary before deciding whether he wiE 

 resmne work at the station. 



A school for bee-keepers was held at Cornell University during the week of February 

 24 to March 1, under the direction of the Department of Entomology in cooperation 

 with Dr. E. F. Phillips and George S. Demuth of the Bureau of Entomology at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The attendance and interest were very gratifying. The total regis- 

 tration for the week was 145. 



Mr. W. O. Hollister of the Bureau of Entomology, stationed at the field laboratory 

 at West Lafayette, Ind., has resigned to return to the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery 

 at Kent, Ohio, as entomologist of the Research Bureau. Mr. Hollister was connected 

 with the Davey Institute for several years and joined the forces of the Bureau of 

 Entomology during the war. 



Mr. M. D. Leonard, who was formerly entomologist of the Erie Co. Laboratory of 

 the Pennsylvania State College, has been appointed special field agent of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Entomology. He will be stationed on Long Island to carry on extension 

 work in the control of truck-crop insects in cooperation with the Department of 

 Entomology at Cornell University. 



Mr. H. H. Knight, formerly investigator in entomology to the Cornell University 

 Experiment Station and who has been in command of a corps of men in the Photo- 

 graphic Section of the Aviation Service in France has returned to this country. He 

 expects to receive his discharge in a few weeks and will then resume his investigations 

 on the biology of the Miridae (Capsidse) . 



Prof. G. M. Bentley, state entomologist and pathologist of Tennessee, is secretary- 

 treasurer of the Tennessee State Florists' Association, the Tennessee State Horticul- 

 tural Society, the Tennessee State Nurserymen's Association, and the Tennessee 

 Beekeepers' Association. These organizations all held their annual convention at 

 Nashville, Tenn., Jaunary 28-31, 1919. 



A Senate Bill appropriating fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), with $10,000 immedi- 

 ately available, for European potato wart disease control, has been introduced in 

 the Pennsylvania Legislature. The economic zoologist has quarantined four town- 

 ships about Hazleton, Pa., with an area of approximately 120 square miles, and three 

 local points outside this main infected area. 



Dr. J. H. Montgomery, quarantine inspector, Florida State Plant Board, has gone 

 to New Orleans, La., to confer with Messrs. Compere (California) and E. R. Sasscer 

 (Federal Horticultral Board) on account of the Black Fly (Aleurocanthiis woglumi) 

 situation. This aleurodid is not known to be present in the United States, but occurs 

 as a severe pest of citrus and other fruit trees in the Bahamas, Cuba and Jamaica. 



The Florida State Plant Board has arranged to furnish the farmers in Baker Coimty 

 with about one miUion weevil-free sweet potato draws, under condition that they 

 bed none of their own potatoes, which are generally infested with the Sweet Potato 

 Root Weevil {Cylas Jorinicarhis) . This arrangement is part of the plan for extermi- 

 nating the weevil from the infested part of this county. The plants are being grown, 

 by the Plant Board. 



