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National Academy of Science at which Dr. Howard presented a paper relating to 

 some recent work of the United States Bureau of Entomology in importing parasites 

 of injurious insects. The balance of the time at Washington was spent in conference 

 with various members of the Bureau. On April 25th, Mr. Gibson spent the day in 

 the neighborhood of New York in company with Mr. Shaw who is in charge of the 

 United States Federal Horticultural Board work at that port. The vacuum steriliz- 

 ing plant at Brooklyn and the vacuum fumigation plant at Staten Island were visited. 

 April 27th was spent with Dr. T. J. Headlee, State Entomologist of New Jersey. 

 In the morning in company with Messrs. Maclntyre and Weiss, a visit was made 

 to the gipsy moth infestation and in the afternoon certain phases of the New Jersey 

 mosquito work were examined. 



We learn from Nature that a prize of $5,000 is offered by Mr. Frank J. D. Barnjum 

 of Montreal for a practical method of combating and suppressing the spruce bud 

 worm, bark beetle and borer, which have caused such tremendous damage in the 

 forests of Eastern Canada and the United States. The Province of Quebec alone 

 has suffered a loss during the past ten years of 150,000,000 cords of standing pulp wood 

 by these pests, which represents a market value in pulpwood of three bilHon dollars, 

 or if manufactured into paper, of seven billion dollars. This represents a loss of 

 wood sufficient for forty-five years' requirements for newsprint for the North Ameri- 

 can continent. The competition closed on August 1, and the $5,000 will be given 

 for the successful suggestion that is accepted by the judges, who will be Sir William 

 Price of Messrs. Price Bros., Quebec; Dr. C. D. Howe, dean of the faculty of for- 

 estry, Toronto University; Mr. Fred A. Gilbert, Great Northern Paper Company, 

 Bangor, Maine; Mr. G. C. Piche, chief of forest service, Quebec, and Mr. Ellwood 

 Wilson, Laurentide Company, Grand Mere, Quebec. Competitive suggestion, 

 should reach Mr. Frank J. D. Barnjum, New Birks Building, Montreal, Canada, 

 before August 1. 



Announcement has been made of the following appointments in the Entomological 

 Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture. Mr. A. Kelsall, Assistant Entomolo- 

 gist, has been promoted to the rank of Entomologist to replace Mr. George Sanders 

 who recently resigned from this post. He will be in charge of the Insecticide In- 

 vestigations now being conducted at the Annapolis Royal laboratory. Messrs. 

 H. H. Thomas and Norman Cutler have been appointed as Junior Entomologists 

 and will assist Mr. Hopping in the pine bark beetle control work in British Columbia. 

 Mr. A. W. MacKenzieand Mr. R. E. Balch have been appointed as Temporary In- 

 vestigators of insect Pests. Mr. MacKenzie will assist Mr. Dunn in New Brunswick 

 and Mr. Balch will be stationed for the present at the Aylmer, Que., forest insect 

 station to assist Mr. Hutchings. Messrs. Dunn and Fleming are now in northern 

 New Brunswick studying budworm injury to red spruce in that region. Mr. R. S. 

 Hawkins has been attached to the Fredericton laboratory as Insect Pest Investi- 

 gator and will assist Dr. Tothill in natural control studies of the tent caterpillars, 

 etc. Mr. A. B. MacAndrews has also been attached to the same laboratory as In- 

 sect Pest Investigator and will assist Mr. A. B. Baird on natural control studies 

 of the larch sawfly, larch case-bearer, etc. Messrs. A. Fowler, C. S. Thompson and 

 W. L. Oliver, have been attached as Investigators of Insect Pests, to the Port Stanley 

 laboratory in connection with Corn Porer Quarantine work. Temporary appoint- 

 ments for the summer: Mr. Walter Carter, Junior Entomologist, at Lethbridge, 

 Alta; Mr. George Hammond, Insect Pest Investigator at Ottawa. He recently 

 received his B.S.A. degree from McDonald College; Mr. A. A. Wood, Insect Pest 



