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Mr. D. L. Van Dine, of the Bureau of Entomology, having received his discharge 

 from the Army, was reinstated in the bureau on August 4. He returns to the malaria 

 mosquito work at Mound, La. 



Mr. C. A. Weigel, Bureau of Entomology, is in Florida making a preliminary 

 investigation of the camphor thrips situation. A permanent assistant is to be as- 

 signed to this project in the near future. 



Mr. H. F. Dietz, Bureau of Entomology, has returned from the Canal Zone where 

 he has been conducting research and experimental work for the past year, and is now 

 engaged in preparing a report in this country. 



Mr. E. R. Barber, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to his station in New 

 Orleans after spending several months in Cuba collecting parasites of the sugar cane 

 moth borer for shipment to the United States. 



The Northern Idaho Beekeepers Association was organized at Sandpoint June 26, 

 1919. Arthur Sires of Sandpoint was elected president, E. A. Anthony of Rathdrum, 

 vice president, and E. L. Ludwick, secretary and treasurer. 



A conference of entomologists was held in Columbus, Ohio, August 11, to consider 

 the European corn borer. The conference was called by N. E. Shaw, secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, and Professor H. A. Gos.sard was present. 



Messrs. C. A. Weigel and E. L. Chambers, Bureau of Entomology, have ju.st 

 completed some successful experiments in controlling the adult of the grape rootworm 

 which appeared in great numbers in a local greenhouse damaging roses. 



Mr. M. M. High, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of sweet-potato weevil investiga- 

 tions in Texas, will visit points in the interior of Mexico for the purpose of securing 

 parasites of the sweet-potato weevil for introduction into the United States. 



Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod of Midnapore, Alberta, B. C, died July 24, 1919. Mr. Dod 

 was a pioneer collector and student of the lepidoptera of Alberta, especially Noctuidae, 

 and he has published many articles in Canadian Entomologist during the past twenty 

 years. 



Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg has been elected executive secretary of the National 

 Research Council. Professor Kellogg is also chairman of the Councils division of 

 educational relations, and a director of the American Relief Administration European 

 Children's Fund. 



Dr. M. C. Tanquay, associate professor of entomology, Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, has resigned to accept the position of state entomologist of Texas, and chief 

 of the division of entomology of the Texas Agricultural College. His resignation 

 takes effect February 1, 1920. 



Mr. W. R. Walton of the Bureau of Entomology in charge of cereal and forage crop 

 investigations has recently made a tour of the Middle West, Pacific Northwest, and 

 Southwest, visiting the laboratories under his direction, and called upon Director 

 Hecke of Sacramento, California, August 8. 



Mr. F. C. Bishopp of the Bureau of Entomology spent a large part of the month of 

 August traveling in Arizona with the Arizona " Live Stock Squad." Public meetings 

 and demonstrations were held in various parts of the state in the interest of the live 

 stock industry. He reports a very successful trip. 



Additional transfers. Bureau of Entomology : R. H. Van Zwaluwenberg, recently 

 en European corn borer work, to Hagerstown, Md.; C. A. Bennett, Federal Horti- 



