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According to the Florida Entomologist, Dr. H. S. Davis, professor of zoology, 

 including entomology. University of Florida, and a charter member of the Florida 

 Entomological Society, has resigned to accept a position in the U. S. Bureau of Fisher- 

 ies. 



Dr. A. L. Quaintance of the Bureau of Entomology has returned from a trip to New- 

 Orleans, La., and Bentonville, Ark., where he conferred with men in charge of the 

 Bureau's laboratories at these places regarding work under way. 



Mr. O. I. Snapp of the Bureau of Entomology, gave addresses on peach insects 

 before the Tennessee State Horticultural Society, at Nashville, Tenn., January 24-26, 

 and the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers, at Atlanta, Ga., February 21-23. 



Dr. L. O. Howard attended the ninth annual convention of the New Jersey Mosqui- 

 to Extermination Association at Atlantic City, N. J., March 1 and 2, and gave an 

 address on "Recent Results of the Anti-Mosquito Work of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology." 



According to Science, Professor C. F. Curtis Riley of the department of zoology of 

 the University of Manitoba, who is carrying on investigations on the ecology and 

 behavior of the Hemipterous family Gerridae, has been elected a member of the 

 Zoological Society of Tokyo, Japan. 



Mr. E. H. Strickland has resigned from the Entomological Branch, Canadian De- 

 partment of Agriculture, to accept a position as professor of entomology in the Uni- 

 versity of Alberta. Mr. Strickland joined the Branch in 1913 and returned to it 

 after service over seas in 1919. His resignation takes effect March 31, 1922. 



A conference on combating the Japanese beetle in New Jersey and Pennsylvania 

 was held by the Bureau of Entomology February 21. Professor J. G. Sanders, Direc- 

 tor of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant Industry, Harrisburg, Pa., Dr. T. J. Headlee, 

 State Entomologist, New Brunswick, N. J., and C. H. Hadley, Riverton, N. J., were 

 present. 



According to Science leave of absence has been granted a party of naturalists from 

 the State University of Iowa to spend the summer of 1922 in the Fiji Islands and 

 New Zealand. Professor C. C. Nutting is zoologist, and will act as leader. Assist- 

 ant Professor Dayton Stoner is entomologist and ornithologist and Mrs. Dayton 

 Stoner is assistant entomologist. 



Mr. George E. Sanders, who has been in charge of the insecticide investigations of 

 the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agrictulture, with headquarters 

 at Annapolis Royal, N. S., resigned the latter part of January, to accept a position 

 with the Dosch Chemical Company with headquarters at Louisville, Ky. Mr. San- 

 ders has been connected with the Canadian entomological staff since 1910. 



The following appointments have been announced by the Bureau of Entomology: 

 Troy Thompson, temporary field assistant on the force of K. L. Cockerham, Biloxi, 

 Miss., and has been stationed at Van Cleve, Miss., sweet potato weevil eradication; 

 Otto D. Link, temporary field assistant, under B. L. Boyden, Daytona, Fla., and 

 stationed at Macclenny, Fla., sweet potato weevil eradication; L. W. Brannon, 

 D. M. Dowdell, Jr., and H. B. Lancaster, probationary appointments as junior 

 entomologists. 



The Rev. Thomas W. Fyles, D. C.L., F.L.S., of Canada, died August 9, 1921, 

 at Ottawa, where he had resided since 1912. He lived at Levis for some twenty-five 

 years, where he was employed by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowl- 

 edge, as immigration chaplin. Dr. Fyles published many entomological papers 

 in Canadian Entomologist and in the Reports of the Ontario Entomological Society, 

 of which he was president from 1899 to 1901. 



