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Mr. D. C. Warren, formerly of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, resigned Jan- 

 uary 1, 1919, to accept a position as assistant entomologist with the Georgia State 

 Board of Entomology. Now Mr. Warren is located at Valdosta, Ga., and is expecting 

 to conduct this year, especially, tests in the control of boll weevil by the use of 

 calcium arsenate and other arsenicals. The tests will be conducted particularly 

 with Sea Island cotton. 



A cooperative investigation of the wireworms attacking cereal crops has been 

 arranged between the Bureau of Entomologj' and the Washington State Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. The Bureau has agreed to furnish a man who will be sta- 

 tioned in central Washington during the growing season of the year, to conduct the 

 Bureau's portion of this cooperative work. F. R. Cole of the Forest Grove (Ore.) 

 station has been assigned to this project for the present. 



According to Science Maj. William B. Herms, associate professor of parasitology 

 in the University of California, has resumed his university duties. Major Herms 

 served with the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army for a little over a year, 

 and since April, 1918, was stationed at the port of embarkation at Newport News, 

 Va., where he was in charge of malarial drainage operations, delousing stations, and 

 assisting in general sanitary inspection. 



Mr. Edw. Doubleday Harris died at his home in Yonkers, N. Y., on March 2, after 

 a few days' illness, in his eightieth year. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., Sep- 

 tember 30, 1839. He collected and studied the beetles of the family Cicindelidae 

 and several years ago presented his collection to the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy at Cambridge, Mass. In 1911, he published and distributed at his own expense, 

 a small pamjihlet entitled North American Cidndelidce in the Harris Collection. 



The following appointments are announced in the Bureau of Entomology : Douglas 

 R. Royder, inspector sweet potato weevil work; J. N. Tenhet and S. F. Grubb, scien- 

 tific assistants, tobacco insects; George G. Becker, agent for extension work, decidu- 

 ous fruit insects, Arkansas; George B. Fisher, and G. W. Curtin, scientific assistants, 

 Arlington, Mass.; J. Edward Taylor, alfalfa weevil demonstrations, Utah; Dr. R. S. 

 McEwen, temporarily as artist; Wesley L. Miles, Arhngton, Ma.ss.; William Yetter, 

 scientific assistant codling moth investigations. Grand Junction, Colo.; Dr. C. H. 

 Richardson, insect physiologist, Wa.shington, D. C; Harry H. Stage, stored product 

 insect investigations; Mortimer D. Leonard, extension work in truck crop insects in 

 New York state. 



Mr. Leonard S. McLaine, M. Sc, of the Canadian Entomological Branch, has 

 been transferred from the Dominion Entomological Laboratory, Fredericton, N. B., 

 to Ottawa, and has been appointed chief of the Division of Plant Inspection and 

 executive as.sistant to the Dominion Entomologist. As chief of the Division of Plant 

 Inspection, Mr. McLaine will have immediate charge of the work of inspection and 

 fumigating imported nursery stock and of the field work against the brown-tuil moth 

 in eastern Canada and such other duties as the enforcement of the insects and pests 

 regulations under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act may involve. 



Recent transfers in the Bureau of Entomology are as follows: R. J. Fiske, Federal 

 Horticultural Board to cereal and forage crop insect investigations, and a.«isigned to 

 work on the southern com root worm at Columbia, S. C; C. F. Stahl, truck crop 

 insects, Spreckels to Riverside, Calif.; W. H. Dumont, southern field crop insect 

 investigations, Augu.sta, Ga., to Wilmington, N. C, and later to Mound, La.; R. W. 

 Keiley, extension work with deciduous fruit insect.s in Indiana, to the In.serticide and 

 Fungicide Board, and a.^^igned to the laboratory at Vienna, Va.; E. E. Wehr, exten- 



