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appointed in 1898. He will live in Los Angeles, California. Since his serious illness 

 several years ago, Professor Summers has not been on active duty. 



Entomological News announces the death of the following entomologists: George 

 A. J. Rothney, England, January 31, 1922; Arthur W. Bacot, Cairo, Egypt, April 

 12, 1922; Henry Rowland Brown, England, May 3, 1922; Hans Friihstorfer, Munich, 

 Germany, April 9, 1922; Dr. Otto Taschenburg, Halle, Germany, March 20, 1922; 

 Louis Bedel, France, February 8, 1922. 



Professor L. M. Peairs, head of the Department of Entomology of the University 

 of West Virginia, visited the Department of Entomology at the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College September 10th to 12th on his return from a vacation trip in Cali- 

 fornia. Professor Peairs received his Master's Degree from the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College in 1907. 



Dr. E. D. Ball, director of scientific research, and Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, left Washington, October 12, for a short trip through the 

 south. They were accompanied by Dr. H. A. Morgan, President of the University 

 of Tennessee, and will study various phases of the boll weevil situation in Louisiana 

 and Mississippi. 



Recent visitors to the Bureau Laboratory at Fort Valley, Georgia, to observe 

 peach insect investigations under way include Director H. P. Stuckey of the Georgia 

 Experiment Station, Dr. J. J. Skinner, U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, Agricultural 

 Development Agents of the Railroads of the Southeastern States, and several groups 

 of peach growers from South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi. 



Dr. J. M. Swaine, Chief of the Division of Forest Insects, Entomological Branch, 

 left Ottawa on August 17th for Saskatchewan and British Columbia to investigate 

 outbreaks of forest insects and to go over the work of the Division in the latter 

 province with Mr. Hopping. On his way west he stopped at the Porcupine Mts. to 

 investigate a large outbreak of Dendroctonus on spruce. 



Mr, Ernest R. Barber formerly of the Bureau of Entomology is now at the head of 

 the Barber Entomological Laboratories at Canal and Baronne Streets, New Orleans, 

 La., and is engaged in supplying Argentine ant poison prepared after the Govern- 

 ment formula recommended in Farmers' Bulletin No. 1101. The Laboratories 

 have made up nearly 140,000 gallons of this ant poison this fall and have supplied 

 nearly 80 southern cities with this product to be used in ant control. 



The railroads of the country have prohibited the use of carbon disulphid as a 

 fumigant of grain in their rolling stock except at certain points, particularly at 

 Baltimore and New Orleans. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has been called 

 upon by them to investigate the possibility of finding a fumigant more suitable than 

 carbon disulphid for grain fumigation and the Bureaus of Entomology and Chemistry 

 have been co-operating in this investigation which has now been under way for several 

 months. 



A party of entomologists and agricultural commissioners visited the areas near 

 Boston infested by the European corn borer on October 10. According to the 

 newspapers, the following were present: Dr. A. W. Gilbert, Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, Boston, Mass.; Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist, and Dr. George G. At- 

 wood, Director Bureau of Plant Industry, State Department of Agriculture, Albany, 

 N. Y.; Professor W. C. O'Kane, State Entomologist, Durham, N. H., Professor A. E. 

 Stene, State Entomologist, Kingston, R. I.; Dr. Henry T. Fernald, Professor of En- 



