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A school and conference for beekeepers will be held at the University of Wisconsin 

 College of Agriculture, Madison, Wis., August 18-23. In addition to local instruc- 

 tors, Dr. E. F. Phillips and Mr. G. S. Demuth of the Bureau of Entomology are on the 

 program. 



Prof. W. C. O'Kane of the New Hampshire College and Experiment Station and 

 president of this Association is ill and has been ordered by his physician to take a 

 complete rest. He has been obliged to drop his work probably for the remainder of 

 the summer. 



According to Entomological News, deaths of European entomologists are announced 

 as follows: W. F. de Vismes Kane, Ireland; Sydney Webb, England; Dr. Raphael 

 Blanchard, J. K. D'Herculais, France; Grand Duke Nicholas Michailovitch, K. 

 Robert, Russia. 



By recent act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, the Bureau of Economic Zoology 

 has been eliminated, and a Bureau of Plant Industry created embracing all the duties 

 of the old Bureau with additional ones. J. G. Sanders is Director and W. A. McCub- 

 bin Deputy Director of the new Bm-eau of Plant Industry. 



C. L. Metcalf of Ohio State University is teaching biology in the summer session 

 of the New York State College of Agriculture. Professor Metcalf received the degree 

 of Doctor of Science from Harvard University in June. He will return to the Depart- 

 ment of Zoology and Entomology in Ohio State University in August. 



Mr. Roger C. Smith has been awarded the one-hundred dollar Walker Prize in 

 Natural History given by the Boston Society. He submitted a paper on "The 

 Biology of the Chrysopidse," his doctor's thesis, which will very likely be published 

 as a memoir of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Professor Herbert Osborn is spending a few weeks at the North Carolina Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, working on Homoptera with Z. P. Metcalf. He was 

 injured in an automobile accident, had a narrow escape, and was laid up for a month 

 with bruises and strains, but is now able to do laboratory work and some field col- 

 lecting. 



According to Science, Dr. Frank E. Blaisdell, Sr., of Stanford University, and 

 Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, curator of the entomological department of the California 

 Academy of Sciences, will spend their summer vacation studying the entomological 

 fauna of the Lake Huntington region, Fresno coimty, California, at an elevation of 

 7,000 feet. 



Among the papers read before the thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for 

 the Promotion of Agricultural Science at Baltimore, January 6 and 7, was the presi- 

 dential address, "The Problem of the Permanent Pasture with Special Reference to 

 Its Biological Factors," by Professor Herbert Osborn, and "Some Codling Moth Life 

 History Studies," by C. P. Gillette and G. M. List. 



Mr. George M. Codding, who for fifteen months was employed as extension ento- 

 mologist in Connecticut by the Bureau of Entomology, has accepted a position with 

 the F. A. Bartlett Co., Stamford, Conn., Tree Surgeons, Entomologists and Foresters. 

 Mr. Codding was employed imder the act to stimulate agriculture during the war and 

 his position terminated June 30, by limitation, as the appropriation was not renewed. 



Dr. Arthur H. McCray, State Bacteriologist of Montana and formerly of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, died of spotted fever June 14, 1919. Dr. McCray was born 

 November 14, 1880, and graduated from the Ohio State University in 1908. While 



