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According to Science Lieut. A. C. Chandler, assistant professor of zoology at 

 the Oregon Agricultural College, has been ordered to the front with the American 

 soldiers to make a study of the rat parasites in France. 



Dr. Robert Kirkland Nabours, professor of zoology and curator of the natural his- 

 tory museum at the Kansas Agricultural College, was recently elected president of 

 the Kansas Academy of Science at its fifty-first annual meeting. 



Prof. Franklin Sherman, Jr., and Mr. R. W. Leiby of the Division of Entomology, 

 North Carolina Department of Agriculture, have both been sick with influenza fol- 

 lowed by pneumonia. Both are now again on duty, though Professor Sherman has 

 not yet fully recovered. 



Mr. R. L. Webster, who holds an industrial fellowship at Cornell, is stationed at 

 Geneva, N. Y., for the summer, working in cooperation with Prof. P. J. Parrott. 

 During the winter Mr. Webster spent a month in Florida, studying the fumigation of 

 citrus fruits in that state. 



The following Bureau employees have returned from service in Army and Navy 

 and have been reinstated in the Bureau: Lieut. W. H. Larrimer; Lieut. W. H. White; 

 C. A. Weigel; Lieut. John A. Monteith, Jr.; Max W. Reeher; W. D. Whitcomb; F. L. 

 McDonough; W. E. Dove; A. B. Jarrell; W. B. CartwTight; M. J. Kerr; R. B. Willson. 



The Connecticut legislature has just adjourned after increasing biennial appro- 

 priations for entomological work as follows: for state entomologist, $15,000 from 

 $12,000; for suppressing gipsy and brown-tail moths, $70,000 from $40,000; for inspect- 

 ing apiaries, $4,000 from $1,500; for European corn borer, $10,000. A law has also 

 been enacted requiring beekeepers to register with the town clerk in each town. 



Mr. M. B. Dunn, temporary assistant at the Dominion Entomological Laboratory 

 at Fredericton, N. B., has been appointed an entomological assistant in the Division 

 of Forest Insects of the Entomological Branch, Ottawa, and, under the direction of 

 Dr. J. M. Swaine, he will be assigned to sample plot investigations in the forests of 

 Quebec and Ontario. 



Mr. C. E. Pemberton, Bureau of Entomology, w-ho followed Dr. Back in charge of 

 the fruit-fly station and cjuarantine service in Hawaii, and who has been for the past 

 year in war service in Honolulu, has been released from the Army and has accepted 

 a position with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association at a material financial 

 betterment. 



The following resignations in the Bureau of Entomology are announced: L. J. 

 Hogg, cereal and forage insects, Arizona; Charles F. Stiles, apicultural extension 

 work, Oklahoma; M. S. Linebaugh, L. P. O'Dowd, and E. A. McGregor, southern 

 field crop insects; O. D. Link, truck crop insects, Florida; J. S. Stanford, cereal and 

 forage crop insects; Q. S. Lowry, truck crop insect extension in Massachusetts; R. F. 

 Wixson, special agent in apiculture for Virginia. 



A conference on the subject of the gipsy and brown-tail moth quarantine was held 

 May 6 at Washington. A. F. Burgess reported that this year there will be no need 

 of an extension of the quarantine lines and in fact notable reductions can be made 

 in some places. There was no necessity, therefore, for a public hearing. 



Mr. J. M. Robinson, graduate of Ohio State University, became assistant ento- 

 mologist at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute on January 1, 1919. Professor Rob- 

 inson has charge directly of the class work in entomology and zoology. With the 

 appointment of Professor Robinson, Dr. Frank L. Thomas became extension ento- 

 mologist, and will devote at least half of his time to extension phases of entomologicail 

 work in the state of Alabama. 



