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The following resignations have been reported from the U.S. Bureau of Entomology; 

 A. D. Borden in charge of laboratory, Alhambra, Calif., to accept a position as en- 

 tomologist and manager of a local insecticide company-. The laboratory has been 

 closed. George H. Rea, Extension Specialist in Apiculture for New York, to accept 

 similar position with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; E. S. Prevost, 

 to accept a state appointment wherein he will continue teaching and extension work 

 in apiculture at Clemson College, S. C. 



According to Entonwlogical News , a zoological expedition to Brazil was organized 

 at the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, through the interest and support 

 of Mr. E. B. Williamson, Honorary Curator of Odonata. The members of the ex- 

 pedition are Mr. Jesse H. Williamson and Capt. John Strohm, U. S. A., who planned 

 to leave New York on December 15, 1921 to be gone about eight months. Particular 

 attention will be given to Odonata, but insects of all orders will be collected and much 

 attention will be devoted to the spiders, shells, reptiles and amphibians. 



According to Science, the Heckscher Research Foundation for the support of in- 

 vestigation at Cornell University has made grants for entomological work as follows: — 

 to Professor J. C. Bradley, $700.00 (and $450.00 supplementary) to cover cost of 

 preparing illustrations and completing manuscript embodying investigations of the 

 wing venation of Hymenoptera; to Professor J. G. Needham and Dr. P. W. Claassen, 

 $500.00 for preparing a monograph on the Plecoptera of North America; to Professor 

 C. R. Crosby, $700.00 for drawings of the genitalia of a group of spiders, the Liny- 

 phiidae, to be used in devising a natural system of classification of the species and to 

 determine the limits of the genera and their affinities. 



Mr. E. S. Tucker of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and recently engaged in the 

 study of cotton insects, died at Tallulah, La., December 10, 1921, aged 54 years. 

 Mr. Tucker received his scientific training at the University of Kansas under the 

 tutelage of F. H. Snow, V. L. Kellogg and S. J. Hunter. At various times he served 

 appointments under the University of Kansas, the Texas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and the United States De- 

 ]3artment of Agriculture. His entire writings comprise a list of 118 papers published 

 in various places. He was a charter member of the Entomological Society of America, 

 a member of the Kansas Academy of Science and of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists. 



The annual meeting of the Crop Protection Institute was held at the Seneca Hotel, 

 Rochester, N. Y., January 12, 1922 at two P. M. Professor W. C. O'Kane was elected 

 Chairman, Paul Moore, Secretary and G. R. Cushman, Treasurer, for the coming 

 year. A dinner was held at the Chamber of Commerce at 6 :30 P. M. in which scien- 

 tists, manufacturers and fruit growers joined, 123 in number. The speakers were Mr. 

 H. E. Howe, Professor W. C. O'Kane, Professor L. R. Jones, Dr. R. W. Thatcher, 

 Mr. G. R. Cushman, Dr. A. L. Quaintance and Professor P. J. Parrott. Other 

 entomologists present were: Dr. E. P. Felt, J. G. Sanders, Professor C. R.Crosby, 

 M. D Leonard, Dr. W. E. Britton, G. E. Sanders, F. Z. Hartzell, Hugh Glasgow, 

 Fred Johnson, B. D. Van Bureai, J. T. Haack, J. F. Palmer and G. H. McLeod. Many 

 of these men were in Rochester to attend the meeting of the New York State Fruit 

 Growers Association held on January 11, 12 and 13. Mr. H. E. Hodgkiss was re- 

 ported as being present on January 11. 



At the Toronto meeting, the Entomological Society of America elected officers 

 for 1922, as follows: — President, Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, 

 Canada; First Vice-President, Dr. W. A. Riley, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 

 Minn; Second Vice-President, Professor R. A. Cooley, University of Montana, 

 Bozeman, Mont.; Secretary- Treasurer, Dr. C. L. Metcalf, University of Illinois, 



