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yellow fever is transmitted by the bites of mosquitoes, and Doctor Agramonte is 

 the only remaining member of the United States Ai-my Board, consisting of Doctors 

 Eeed, Lazear, Carroll, and Agramonte, which investigated and finally demonstrated 

 the correctness of this theorj'. 



At Cornell University, G. W. Herrick and W. A. Riley were recently promoted 

 to the rank of full professors, and Robert Matheson and George C. Embody were 

 promoted from instructors to assistant professors in the department of entomology. 



Mr. E. L. Jenne, Entomological Assistant engaged in Deciduous Fruit-Insect 

 Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, died at 

 Walnut Creek, Cal., May 10th, 1912, at the age of twenty-seven years. Mr. Jenne 

 was known by lus work on the codling moth, and his more recent studies on the 

 plvma Curculio will soon be pubhshed. He graduated from Washington State College 

 and from Cornell University. 



The total appropriations for the Bureau of Entomologj', as recommended by the 

 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forest r}-, for the Fiscal year beginning July 

 1, 1912, amounts to $691,840, allotted as follows: 



Salaries $58,750.00 



Deciduous Fruit Insects 40,600.00 



Cereal and Forage Insects (including the alfalfa weevil) . . . 85,000 . 00 



Southern Field Crop Insects 47,160.00 



Forest Insects 44,750.00 



Truck Crop and Stored Product insects (including sugar beet insects) 39,500 . 00 



Bee Culture 15,000.00 



Citrus Fruit Insects (including the white fly) 21,500.00 



Investigation of the Mediterranean Fly (immediately available) . 35,000.00 



Miscellaneous Insects 19,740.00 



Preventing Spread of Moths 284,840.00 



Total $691,840.00 



The Committee has recommended an increase of $15,000 for the investigation of 

 insects affecting truck crops and stored products, including sugar beets, under the 

 direction of Dr. F. H. Chittenden, and an increase of $35,000 (of which sum .110,000 

 is to be immediately available) for the investigation of insects affecting cereal and 

 forage plants, including the alfalfa weevil. This work comes under the supervision 

 of Prof. F. M. Webster, in charge of Cereal and Forage Insect investigations. 



William H. Patterson, Agricultm'al School, Imperial Department of Agricultm-e, 

 St. Vincent, W. I., we are advised, has accepted the post of Government Entomol- 

 ogist to the Gold Coast Colony, West Africa. He will spend three months in Eng- 

 land prior to commencing work in the new field. 



Science mentions an article printed in London Times regarding the experiments 

 of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, containing the report of the Luangwa 

 Sleeping Sickness Commission. Human trypanosomes were found in the blood of 

 game animals, and these are transmitted by a fly, Glossins morsitans Westw., 

 approximately five per cent of the flies becoming permanenth^ infected and 

 capable of transmitting the infection. An infected fly retains the power of trans- 

 mitting the infection during its life. Certain species of buck, viz., waterbuck, 

 hartebeest, mpala, warthog, and a native dog were found to be infected with 

 human trypanosomes. 



Mailed June 1 , 1912. 



