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According to Science, the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota 

 have granted Prof. F. L. Washburn, of the division of entomology and zoology, a 

 six months' sabbatical furlough to collect insects in certain islands of Polynesia, 

 especially Tahiti, Murea, and probably the Marquesan and Cook groups. The 

 expenses are provided for through private funds furnished by business and profession- 

 al men of Minneapolis, and the collections will become the property of the University. 



Entomological News for May contains an obituary notice of Dr. Joseph Lane 

 Hancock, who died in Chicago March 12, 1922. He was bom in Chicago, April 

 12, 1864, and though he distinguished himself as artist, author and physician he was 

 also a naturalist, and published many papers on the Orthoptera. His collection was 

 an extensive one and has been purchased and is now a part of the Morgan Hebard 

 collection deposited at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



The following recent appointments in the Bureau of Entomology are announced: 

 Maurice E. Phillips, a graduate of the University of West Virginia who recently 

 received his M. S. degree from Cornell University, has been appointed junior entomol- 

 ogist to investigate insects attacking dried fruits and vegetables, Fresno, Calif; 

 H. A. Jaynes, a graduate of the Connecticut Agricultural College, junior entomologist, 

 assigned to Japanese beetle project, Riverton, N. J.; J. A. Harris, a graduate of the 

 Mississippi Agricultural College, field assistant, assigned to plum curculio and other 

 peach insect investigations. Fort Valley, Ga. ; H. H. Link, formerly employed in the 

 Bureau, field assistant, citrus fruit insect investigation^j Orlando, Fla. 



Mr. E. G. Smyth, formerly chief entomologist of Porto Rico, and connected with 

 the Bureau of Entomology as entomological assistant from 1908 to 1913, as extension 

 entomologist from 1917 to 1918, and as collaborator during 1921, has been appointed 

 as special field agent to undertake a trip to southern Mexico with the hope of dis- 

 covering parasites of the Mexican bean beetle suitable for importation into the 

 United States. Mr. Smyth will proceed by way of Birmingham, where he will stop 

 over for consultation with Btireau employees, and thence to Mexico by rail, where 

 six months will be spent in investigations of the Mexican bean beetle and related 

 types with particular reference to parasites and factors affecting the economic im- 

 portance of this pest in its native habitat. 



A regional conference of Canadian and American entomologists was held April 

 12 and 13 at Minot, N. D., where a full discussion of the international phases of the 

 investigations of the pale western cutworm, grasshopper problems, and the western 

 wheat-stem sawfly was had. As a result of this conference, it was decided to conduct 

 a series of experiments, both in Canada and the United States, on a uniform basis, 

 so as to render the results easily comparable. It was also decided to construct an 

 international map, including in this several of the northwestern States in the United 

 States as well as those Canadian provinces which are most seriously involved in 

 grasshopper outbreaks. The purpose of the map is to record and visualize grass- 

 hopper conditions in a large, regional way and to form a basis for annual records of 

 such conditions from year to year. Those attending the conference were: Norman 

 Criddle and A. V. Mitchener of Manitoba, H. L. Seamans of Alberta; M. P. Tullis, 

 field crop commissioner for Regina, Saskatchewan; A. L. Strand, representing Mon- 

 tana; Prof. A. G. Ruggles, representing Minnesota; Prof. R. L. Webster of North 

 Dakota; and W. R. Walton, Stewart Lockwood, Alfred Eastgate, and C. N. Ainslie, 

 of the Bureau of Entomology. It was decided to attempt to hold a similar confer- 

 ence in Winnipeg about the same time next year, as the results of the conference 

 were considered to be of the utmost value. The title adopted by this group is 

 "International Northeastern Committee on Insect Pests." 



