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Mr. O. G. Babcock, of College Park, Maryland, has been elected as assistant to 

 .the Entomological Division University of Minnesota in charge of the insectary. 

 These two appointees take the places of Mr. C. S. Spooner and Mr. H. B. Scammell 

 respectively, the first of whom goes to Georgia, accepting a flattering offer from the 

 State Entomologist there, the latter having been elected County Inspector of Nur- 

 series and Orchards in Colorado. 



According to Science, Dr. L. O. Howard, received the honorary degree of Doctor 

 of Laws on the occasion of the celebration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth 

 anniversary of the University of Pittsburgh. 



Prof. J. H. Comstock of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., and Dr. W. J. Holland 

 of Pittsburgh, Pa., have been appointed by the London Entomological Society as 

 its representatives at the celebration of the centenarj^ of the foundation of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Professor Herbert Osborn has been designated to represent the American Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists at the Second International Entomological 

 Congress to be held at Oxford, England, August 5 to 10, 1912. 



Samuel Henshaw has recently been appointed director of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology of Harvard University. 



The transmission of insects and nursery stock through the mails. At the sug- 

 gestion of Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Entomology, we repro- 

 duce below, sections 7 and 8, order number 6158 issued by Postmaster-General 

 Hitchcock under date of March 2-3, 1912. 



"7. Queen bees and their attendant bees, when accompanied by a certificate 

 from a State or Government inspector that they have been inspected and found 

 free of disease; beneficial insects, when shipped by departments of entomology in 

 agricultural colleges and persons holding official entomological positions; other live 

 insects, when addressed to the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to departments of entomology in State agricultural colleges, and 

 to persons holding official entomological positions, and dried insects and dried rep- 

 tiles may be sent in the mails when so put up as to render it practically impossible 

 that the package shall be broken in transit, or the persons handling the same be in- 

 jured, or the mail bags or their contents soiled. 



"8. Nursery stock, including field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, plants, 

 vines, cuttings, grafts, scions and buds (which may carry injurious insects) may be 

 admitted to the mails only when accompanied by a certificate from a State or Govern- 

 ment inspector to the effect that said nursery stock has been inspected and found 

 free from injurious insects." 



Dr. Howard adds that he is trying to get a modification of this order in regard to 

 the inspection certificate for queen bees. 



The above restrictions upon transmission of nursery stock through the mails are 

 essential if we are to prevent the dissemination of injurious insects and fungous 

 diseases. There has been complaint for some years respecting this phase of the 

 traffic, and all interested in conserving our agricultural interests can not but welcome 

 this much needed restriction. 



E. P. Felt. 



Mailed April 25, 1912. 



