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Thft following; oniomolofrislH uUciuIchI (lie hearing; "On Account of the Flajj; Smut 

 and 'I'jiko-All DisciiHes of CJruins iiiid Mio Wheal Nenmtodo or liAilwonn Diaeuso," 

 before tlie Federal li()rti(uil(uriil Bourtl of Washington, D. C, on July 15: W. J. 

 Schoene, Virginia; Frank N. Wallace, Indiana; A. C. Lewis, Georgia; P. A. Glenn, 

 Illinois. 



Or. Wiliiarn (^olcord Woods was granted leave of absence by Wesleyan University 

 for the period of tiie war. WIkmi he returned from I'Yance in April he went as mem- 

 ber of the summer stalT in entomology to tiie Maine Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Orono. September 1 he returned to Wesleyan University as assistant professor 

 of biology. 



Mr. W. J. I'ricre, who has been (ronnecicd with the oflice of the state entomologist 

 in Virginia since 1!)()2, and who for the past eighleen months has been connected 

 with the incireased i)roduction work in that state for the liureau of I'lntomology, has 

 accepted a position in the Department of Agricultural Education, ami will be located 

 at Woodstock, Va. 



Mr. M. H. Dunn, temporary assistant at the Dominion Tlntomological Laboratory 

 at Fredericton, N. U., has been appoiivted an entomological assistant in the Division 

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

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

 Quebec and Ontario. 



Mr. S. H. Freeborn, since his return from the Army, has been investigating the 

 malaria situation in (he nordiern Sacramento Valley, and is at present directing a 

 campaign in the neighborhood of Anderson to which the State Board of Health has 

 contributed $10,000 in addition to the sum raised by the Mosquito Abatement Dis- 

 trict organized ther(\ 



On August 115, there was h(>l(l at the State College of Washington, a joint meeting 

 of the horticulturists and entomologists of the northwestern states. The day fol- 

 lowing, a continuation of this meeting was held at the University of Idaho at Moscow. 

 A year ago, a similar meeting was called at the Oregon Agricultural College which 

 was very successfully attended. 



Mr. II. K. Ilarley of the state entomologist's ofTicc, Madison, Wis., spent the week 

 of August 18 to 23 in the neighborhooil of Boston, Mass., studying the European 

 corn borer. Mr. Ilarley is making a survey of Wisconsin, and especially of those 

 areas into which New lOngland seed corn was imported in 1918, to determine if po.ssi- 

 blc whether the corn borer was imported into the state at that time. 



A new project dealing with the wire worms alTe(^ting wheat has been inaugurated 

 by the Washington Exi)eriment Station in cooperation with the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. Frank W. Carlson has been ajjpointed station investigator with head- 

 quarters at the Dry-Land I'^xperiment Station at Lind, and F. R. Cole has been 

 <lelega(ed by the Bureau of En(omol()gy as (collaborator on this work. 



"^^rhe following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology are reported: Geo. A. 

 Hummer, to resume commercial beekeeping; E. W. Scott, in charge of insecticide 

 laboratory, Vienna, Va., to become manager of a newly-formed company, with head- 

 quarters at Rockville, Md.; M. D. Leonard, extension entomologist, truck crop 

 insects. New York State, to accept a position at Cornell University Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



Prof. George B. Neumann recently rcturneil from service in France has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in entomology at the Purdue University Experiment Station, 



