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Prof. W. H. Brittain of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College spent a day recently 

 at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, Riverton, N. J. 



Mr. Lawrence Reynolds, an entomologist and collector in Central and South 

 America, died recently in Boston at the age of forty-four years. 



A new building at the University of Missouri for which the last legislature appro- 

 priated $200,000.00 will contain a room for the entomological collections. 



Mr. John B. Gill, Bureau of Entomology, attended the annual convention of the 

 National Pecan Grower's Association, at Thomasville, Ga., October 3-5, 1922. 



Recent visitors at the Federal Fruit Insect Laboratory at Sandusky, Ohio, include 

 A, F. Burgess and Dr. A. C. Baker of the Bureau of Entomology. 



Prof. H. A. Gossard during his vacation in October visited Florida, and expected 

 to attend the annual meeting of the National Nut Grower's Association. 



According to Science, Mr. Francis Maidl of the National Museum of Vienna, has 

 been appointed curator of the department of entomology at Cornell University. 



Mr. C. B. Nickels has been transferred from the position of field entomologist to 

 that of research entomologist at the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 



According to Science, Mr. John L. Buys, instructor in entomology at Cornell 

 University, has been appointed assistant professor of entomology at the University 

 of Akron. 



Mr. E. P. Ide, temporary laboratory assistant. Entomological Branch, Ottawa, 

 Canada, during the summer months, has resigned to continue his course of study in 

 the Collegiate Institute. 



Dr. C. L. Marlatt, Chairman of the Federal Horticultural Board, returned about 

 October 1, to his official duties at Washington after having spent the summer in 

 Maine. 



Mr. W. W. Yothers of the Bureau of Entomology attended the County Agent's 

 meeting held in Gainesville, Fla., September 9-14, where he discussed rust mites and 

 their control. 



Mr. W. J. Kostir, for the past year instructor in zoology at Columbia University, 

 returned this fall to Ohio State University as assistant professor of zoology and 

 entomology. 



Mr. D wight M. DeLong received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the 

 Ohio State University last June, and is now assistant professor of entomology at 

 that institution. 



The Kansas State Agricultural College has granted Assistant Professor Wm. P. 

 Hayes of the Department of Entomology, a leave of absence for the coming year to 

 study at Cornell University. 



An address on peach insects was delivered before the Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley, 

 Georgia, on October 6th, by Mr. Oliver I. Snapp, of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



Dr. David Sharp, formerly curator of the Museum of Zoology at the University 

 of Cambridge, and editor of the Zoological Record, died August 27, at the age of 

 eighty-one years. 



Dr. E. D. Ball is chairman, and Doctors A. L. Quaintance and A. C. Baker are 

 members of the Committee on Preliminary Arrangements for the Graduate School 

 for workers in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



