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Mr. Ivoonard 8. Mcljiiino, M.Sr., of the Cutwulian KntomoloKioal Branch, ha.s boon 

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

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

 tive assistant to the Dominion entomologist. As chief of the Division of Plant 

 Insp(M!tion, Mr. McLainc will have immediate charge of the work of inspection and 

 fumigating importofl nursery stock, and of the field work against the; l)rown-tail moth 

 in Eastern C'anada, and such other duties as the enforccm(!nt of the insects and pests 

 regulations under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act may involve. 



At the convention of Southern Nurserymen, held at Atlanta on August 20-21, a 

 committee consisting of Messrs. E. W. Chattin of Winchester, Tenn., Oharles Smith, 

 Augusta, Ga., Henry ('base, C'hase, Ala., and J'rofcsKors George C. Starcher, Auburn, 

 Ala., A. C". Lewis, Atlanta, Ga., and G. M. Bontley, Knoxvillc, Tenn., was ai)pointed 

 by the association to frame rules and regulations i)ertaining to the uniform insi)ection 

 laws of nurseries. This committee; held a v(!ry important meeting and framed the 

 rules and will meet with the federal horticultural inspectors at their annual meeting 

 in December. It is to be hoped that a uniformity of inspection laws may be per- 

 fected at that time. 



Dr. W. Dwight Pierce has edited and revised the series of lectures on the ento- 

 mology of disease, hygiene and sanitation and has added several new chapters to 

 form a volume entitled "Sanitary Entomology," whi(!h will be pubhshed by Richard 

 G. Badger of Boston. The proceeds of the royalties will be given to the Washington 

 Entomological Society. Advance orders for the volume whi(;h will sell at $10 are 

 desired in order to cover a guarantiee made to the publishers, 'i'hese are lectures by 

 ten specialists, and the work represents the very latest official information on the 

 subject. D()(;t()rs and sanitarians will l)e as much interested in this volume as ento- 

 mologists and zoologists. 



New appointments have been made in the Bureau of Entomology as follows: 

 George II. Rea, apicultural cxtcnsif)n New York state; Emory G. Shanks, temporary 

 laboratory helper, tropiceal and subtropical fruit insect investigations; John H. Har- 

 mon, Thomas F. Murphy, Roger J. Chambers, H. 10. Partridge, Arnold F. Leamy, 

 Earl J^. Lathrop, Euro[)ean corn Imrer investigations; Lee Roy Wilbank, George Lee 

 Lott, H. C. Young, B. F. Ware, G. A. Hammett, James Benford Pope, George W. 

 Alexander, Lloyd W. Brannon, Clarence H. Brannon, James P. H. Clayton, Amos L. 

 Williamson, George S. Fricke, Ben Matt Davenport, temporarily to boll weevil lab- 

 oratory; Ernest L. Chambers, green house insects. 



A cooperative agreement has Ijccn perfected between the Wisconsin State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, the Agricultural Extension Service of Wisconsin, and the U. S. 

 Bureau of Entomology, whereby Mr. H. L. McMurry is to become extension field 

 agent and apiary inspector in that state. The educational and extension work will 

 be conducted by Mr. MciMurry under the direction of Prof. H. F. Wilson, entomolo- 

 gist of the lOxperiment Station; and the apiary inspection, as well as the educational 

 work concerning the (-ontrol of bee diseases, under the direction of Dr. S. B. Fracker, 

 acting state entomologist. The last legislature i)as,sed a new apiary inspection law, 

 placing its administration in the hands of the state cntomologi.st, and requiring, in 

 addition to the usual provisions of such laws, that permits be secured from the state 

 entomologist for the sale or transportation of any bees or used apiary appliances. 



Mailed October 22, 1919. 



