378 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 15 



Professor F. Silvestri, one of the foreign members of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists, has just been made foreign correspondent in the Section of 

 Agriculture and Natural History of the Academy of Agriculture of France. 



Mr. Stanley W. Bromley, Massachusetts Agricultural College 1922, has been 

 employed during the summer as assistant at the Wallingford, Conn., field station of 

 the Bureau of Entomology. He will return to the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege this fall to take up graduate work in entomology. 



Mr. G. E. Sanders, formerly of the Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Annap- 

 olis Royal, Nova Scotia, and later with the Dosch Chemical Co., Louisville, Ky., 

 is now manager of the Deloro Chemical Company, Ltd., Deloro, Ontario, Canada. 



According to Science, Dr. W. J. Holland, since 1898 director of the Carnegie Muse- 

 uin, Pittsburgh, has become director emeritus, and is succeeded by Mr. Douglas 

 Stewart. 



According to Science, Dr. W. H. Brittain, provincial entomologist of Nova Scotia, 

 has been appointed a member of the council of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, to represent the Canadian Society of Technical Agricul- 

 turists. 



According to Science, Mr. William Schaus of the U. S. National Museum, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Entomological Society of Brazil in recognition 

 of his extensive work on the butterflies and moths of Brazil. 



Mr. O. L vSnapp, Biireau of Entomology, was scheduled to attend the 46th annual 

 meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society, September 6 and 7, at Cordele, 

 Ga., and to discuss the plum curculio investigations being carried on by the Bureau. 



Messrs. C. C. McDonnell, Chief, and Ira N. Neifert and W. H. Tonkin of the 

 Federal Insecticide and Fungicide Laboratory, have been conducting field experiments 

 in Maryland with different gases to control the insect pests that infest grains in 

 storage and in transit. 



Dr. L. O. Howard was scheduled to speak on "Warfare Against Insects" in a course 

 of lectures on science to be given daily from July 10 to August 15 at the Horace Mann 

 Auditorium, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. The lectures 

 are given at 2:30 p. M. 



A study of the natural control of the tent caterpillar of which chere is a serious 

 outbreak in the maritime provinces this year is marked by a conspicuous absence of 

 parasites. In 1915 this insect was almost entirely killed out by a light frost and the 

 parasites may have been killed out at the same time. 



Mr. E. J. Newcomer reports that the efforts of the Bureau of Entomology in im- 

 porting codling moth parasites from the East for establishment in orchards around 

 Yakima, Wash., under way for the past two or three years, hav3 been successful, in 

 the case of one species at least, Bassus carpocapsae, which has been secured from band 

 material collected last fall. 



The scouting to determine the spread of the apple sucker in Nova Scotia was com- 

 pleted some time ago. As a result of this work it was found that the pest had spread 

 into quite a large area, particularly in a southerly and southwesterly direction. 

 The work was carried on in co-operation with the Nova Scotia Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



