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Mr. F. C. Bishopp of the Dallas, Tex., laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, follow- 

 ing attendance at the Toronto meeting, visited several points in New York in con- 

 nection with the ox- warble work being done in that State. Coming on to Washington 

 he spent a few days conferring with various Department officials on phases of the 

 work on investigations of insects injurious to animals. He then returned to Dallas, 

 making a few stops en route to investigate ox-warble conditions. 



According to Science Professor William M. Wheeler, dean of the Bussey Institu- 

 tion, Harvard University, will give a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, 

 on "Social Life Among Insects." Dates and subjects are as follows: — February 27, 

 "A Comparison of Animals and Human Societies. The Social Beetles." March 2, 

 "Wasps, SoHtary and Social." March 6, "Bees, Solitary and Social." March 9, 

 "Ants, their Development, Casts, Nesting, and Feeding Habits." March 13, 

 ''Parasitic Ants, and Ant Guests." March 16, "Termites, or White Ants." 



Clarence F. Mickel of Lincoln, Nebraska has taken up his work at Minnesota as a 

 graduate student and as assistant in economic entomology, His family will come 

 later in the month after he has had time to locate living quarters. Mr. Mickel is 

 a graduate of the University of Nebraska with the class of 1917. For two years 

 he was extension entomologist at the University of Nebraska and after his return from 

 war service he was research entomologist with the American Beet Sugar Company 

 at Rocky Ford, Colorado. 



Dr. Paul B. Lawson of the University of Kansas will again give the courses in Elemen- 

 tary Economic Entomology in the summer session of the University of Minnesota. 

 At the close of the session Dr. Lawson will join Dr. H. B. Hungerford, Dr. H. H. 

 KJnight and Mr. W. E. Hoffman in an entomological field trip to the northern section 

 of Minnesota. It is hoped that several other entomologists interested in this practi- 

 cally un worked fauna may join the party. 



The annual conference of Hessian fly workers of the branch of Cereal and Forage 

 Insect Investigations was held at Carlisle, Penn., on January 2. The following 

 persons were in attendance: W. R. Walton and Jos S. Wade, Washington, D. C; 

 W. H. Larrimer and W. B. Cartwright, West Lafayette, Ind.; J. R. Horton, Wichita, 

 Kans; A. F. Satterthwait, Webster Groves, Mo.; G. G. Ainslie, Knoxville, Tenn.; 

 W. J. Phillips, Charlottesville, Va.; L. P. Rockwood, Forest Grove, Oreg; and P. R. 

 Myers, C. C. Hill, and H. D. Smith, Carlisle, Penn. It was the unanimous opinion 

 of those present that the conference had attained valuable results and that similar 

 conferences should be held annually in the future. 



The third general conference of the Entomological Branch Staff was held in Ottawa 

 on January 3, 4, and 5. In addition to the officers stationed at Ottawa, the following 

 were in attendance at the meetings: Mr. Sanders of Nova Scotia, Mr. Tothill of 

 New Brunswick, Mr. Fetch of Quebec, Messrs. Ross and Hudson of Ontario, Mr. 

 Criddle of Manitoba, Messrs. Strickland and Seamans of Alberta, and Messrs. Hop- 

 ping and Downes of British Columbia. The conference was opened by the Deputy 

 Minister of Agriculture, Dr. J. H. Grisdale, who welcomed the outside men to Ottawa, 

 and stated further that he hoped that as a result of the meetings, the Branch would 

 be in a better position to formulate schemes for combating insect pests. Dr. Grisdale 

 also attended several other sessions of the conference. 



The brown-tail moth scouting work in the Providence of New Brunswick was com- 

 pleted the latter part of January and no winter nests of this insect were found. Up 

 to January 28, 757 nests of the brown-tail moth were collected in Nova Scotia, 

 the majority of these being found in the Bridgetown, Round Hill and Torbrook dis- 



