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Mr. M. M. High, engaged on truck crop and stored product insect investigations, 

 working on the onion thrips at Knox, Indiana, during the summer, is studying 

 the same problem, together with others, at Brownsville, Texas. 



Mr. Thomas H. Jones, engaged in investigations of truck crop and stored product 

 insects, has resigned from the Bureau of Entomology to accept a position with the 

 Sugar Producers' Experiment Station, located at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico. 



Mr. John E. Graf has been appointed agent in the investigation of sugar beet and 

 truck crop insects at Compton, California. 



Mr. Warren Knaus, who for many years has been recognized as an authority on 

 certain families of the Coleoptera, has been appointed inspector of apiaries on the 

 staff of the State Entomologist of the University of Kansas. 



Mr. Harry B. Kirk, of the Division of Zoology, Department of Agriculture, Harris- 

 burg, Pa., has accepted a position as assistant in entomology at the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn., and will begin his work there about Feb- 

 ruary 15th. 



Mr. Henry F. Judkins, a graduate of the class of 1911 and a former laboratory 

 assistant in entomology of New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H., has recently 

 been appointed assistant to Professor W. C. O'Kane in the work of suppressing the 

 gipsy and brown-tail moths in New Hampshire. 



Notice was issued in January by Professor Burton N. Gates for a convention of 

 apiary inspectors of the Northeastern United States and Canada, to he held at 

 Amherst, Mass., February 7th and 8th. The preliminary programme announced 

 addresses by President Kenyon S. Butterfield, Dr. E. F. Phillips of Washington, 

 Arthur C. Miller, Rhode Island, E. J. Crane, Vermont, Charles Stewart, New York, 

 A. W. Yates and W. E. Britton, Connecticut, and B. N. Gates, Amherst, Mass. 

 We hope to give an account of this convention in a later issue of the Journal. 



Mr. J. L. Webb, formerly of the Division of Forest Insect Investigations, Bureau 

 of Entomology, will, after February 1, 1912, be engaged in rice insect investigations 

 in the Division of Southern Field Crop Insect Investigations, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. His address will be Crowley, Louisiana. 



Irving W. Davis, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1911, 

 has been appointed, we learn from College Signal, instructor in pomology and ento- 

 mology at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. 



Mailed February 26, 1912 



