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Prof. S. J. Hunter of the University of Kansas read a paper on "Pellagra and the 

 Sand-fly" before the Second Triennial Meeting of the National Association for the 

 Study of Pellagra, at Columbia, S. C, on October 3. This was a presentation of the 

 results of experiments in the transfusion of blood from Pellagrins to monkeys, and 

 innoculations by means of Sand-flies from Pellagrins to monkeys. Mr. W. T. Emery, 

 a graduate student, is his associate in this work. Thus far no conclusive evidence 

 has been found to associate the Sand-fly with this disease. 



In the September number (Vol. I, No. 10) of the Monthly Bulletin of the CaUfornia 

 State Commission of Horticulture, there is pubUshed a Host Index to California 

 Coccida^, by C. F. Baker and E. O. Essig, and a list of the Noctuidse of the state, as 

 the second installment of the Check List of California Insects, by Prof. C. W. Wood- 

 worth. The first installment appeared in the June number (No. 7) of the same volume 

 of the' Bulletin. 



It is reported that the Park Commissioner of New York City ha§ decided to estab- 

 lish in the Swedish schoolhouse. Central Park, a school of entomology, where nature 

 lovers of all ages may learn about the different orders of insects. The Entomologist 

 of the park department. Dr. E. B. Southwick, will have charge of this school. 



Dr. E. W. Berger, Entomologist, University of Florida, has recently been awarded 

 a silver medal and a certificate of honor by the Royal Horticultural Society of London, 

 England, for an exhibit of fungus parasites of scales and white-flies in Florida. 



Mr. James Walker McCoUoch, a graduate of Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 who for the past two years has been a special agent for the department of entomology 

 of the Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station, has been appointed Assistant 

 Entomologist of the Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Dr. M. C. Tanquary, who for the past three years has been Assistant Entomologist 

 under Doctor Forbes of Illinois and who received liis doctor's degree this summer 

 from Illinois University, has been appointed Instructor in Entomology in the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College and Assistant Entomologist of the Kansas State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Prof. George A. Dean, Associate Professor of Entomology in the Kansas State 

 Agricultural College and Associate Entomologist of the Kansas State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, is now State Entomologist for the northern half of Kansas, 

 is Acting Entomologist for the Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 Acting head of the Department of Entomology in the Kansas State Agricultural 

 College. 



Herbert T. Osborn of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, who has been stationed 

 at Salt Lake City on investigations of the alfalfa weevil, has been granted a leave of 

 absence for six months, and will devote the time to graduate work at Ohio State 

 University. 



On account of a considerable demand for a course in beekeeping, Prof. J. G. San- 

 ders, Entomologist, will offer such a course in the Wisconsin College of Agriculture 

 during the second semester. Wisconsin was the first to appoint a State apiary 

 inspector, Mr. N. E. France, who has served continuously during the past fifteen 

 years. An effort will be made to amend the present laws and obtain an increased 

 appropriation during the coming winter. 



A bill will probably be introduced into the next Legislature of Missouri, providing 

 for the inspection of nurseries and orchards and for extension work in entomology 

 and horticultiu'e. Heretofore there has been no legislation covering these points, 



