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The Mexican bean beetle is doing considerable injury in many sections of Ten- 

 nessee, it being present in some 36 counties, with damaging infestations. 



Dr. E. D. Ball, Director of Scientific Research, U. S. Department of Entomology, 

 was scheduled to speak at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, 

 June 22, on "The Place of Agricultural Research in National Development." 



According to Experiment Station Record, a new quarterly entomological journal 

 will be published at Helsingfors, Finland, under the name of Notulae Entomologicae. 

 The initial number has just appeared, and contains several original articles, ab- 

 stracts and necrological notes. 



According to Science, Prof. J. G. Needham, head of the department of biology and 

 entomology in Cornell University, is to exchange for the next college year with Dr. 

 William A. Hilton, of the department of zoology, Pomona College, Claremont, 

 California. 



The Bureau chiefs gave a luncheon at the Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C, 

 May 11, in honor of the fifty-sixth birthday of Secretary Wallace. Entomologists 

 present were Drs. E. D. Ball, L. O. Howard and C. L. Marlatt. Dr. Howard acted 

 as toastmaster. 



Dr. J. K. Haywood," Chairman of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board was sched- 

 uled to address the Disinfectant Manufacturers' Association at Chicago, June 12 

 and 13, on "The Work of the Bureau of Entomology in Connection with the Enforce- 

 ment of the Insecticide Act." 



According to Science, Dr. C. P. Gillette, director of the Colorado Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, delivered at the Denver Public Library on June 6, a lecture on 

 "Heredity and the Improvement of Man" under the auspices of the Genetic Foun- 

 dation of Colorado. 



The following transfers are announced in the Bureau of Entomology: B. L. 

 Boyden, sweet-potato weevil eradication, from Daytona to Tampa, Fla; W. H, 

 Merrill, MacCleney to Tampa, Fla; E. R. Barber, southern field crop investigations 

 to tropical and sub-tropical fruit insect investigations, effective June 1. 



According to Science, Mr. Hugh C. Huckett, a graduate student at Cornell 

 University, has been appointed entomologist for the newly-established laboratory 

 for the study of vegetable crop pests on Long Island, to be maintained from State 

 funds under the joint direction of the State Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 the State College of Agriculture. 



Mr. G. M. Stirrett, who recently graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 has accepted a position with the Purdue Experiment Station for the summer, and 

 this fall at the beginning of the school term, will become associated with the De- 

 partment of Entomology, Purdue University, as graduate assistant. 



Mr. C. M. Smith, assistant chemist, has been detailed for several months to the 

 Bureau of Entomology laboratory, Tallulah, La., to study the chemical and physical 

 properties of calcium arsenate used m the control of the cotton boll weevil, with the 

 idea of developing a more satisfactory product. 



Mr. G. F. Moznette of the Bureau of Entomology, who is located at Miami, Fla., 

 has recently been elected an honorary member of the California Avocado Association, 

 in recognition of the service he has rendered the industry in the United States by 

 his work with the insect enemies of the avocado. 



