April, '08] JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 167 



third session to be held July 6th to the 31st, 1908, at Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., and at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 

 N. Y., gives the following list of entomologists on its faculty : 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief, U. S. Bureau of Entomology ; Prof. S. A. Forbes, 

 professor of zoology. University of Illinois ; Prof. M. V. Slingerland, assist- 

 ant professor of economic entomology, Cornell University ; P. J. Parrott, ento- 

 mologist. New Yorli Agricultural Experiment Station ; Dr. James G. Needham, 

 assistant professor of limnology, Cornell University ; Dr. A. D. MacGillivray, 

 assistant professor of entomology, Cornell University ; Dr. W. A. Riley, 

 assistant professor of entomology, Cornell University ; Prof. E. Dwight San- 

 derson, director and entomologist, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment 

 Station; Dr. E. P. Felt, state entomologist of New Yorli. 



A provisional program will appear shortly. The Jouenal hopes to publish 

 all the best papers given in the course on entomology. 



The Louisiana Naturalists Society held its first meeting of the year Sat- 

 urday, Feb. 1st, at the State Museum at New Orleans. There was a very 

 large attendance and several important papers were read and discussed. 

 Mr. J. B. Garrett of the Louisiana State Experiment Station read a carefully 

 prepared paper on the "pou-a-pouche" (Pseudococcus calceolariae) which is 

 a source of injury to the sugar cane. Mr. Blouin outlined the experience of 

 the Audubon Park Experiment Station with the same insect. Mr. E. Foster 

 read a short paper on some forms of Entomostraca occurring in New 

 Orleans. Mr. Foster has for years been making a special study of these 

 organisms in which the waters in the vicinity of New Orleans are particularly 

 rich. Mr. J. C. Smith, who is well known as an authority on Protozoa, gave 

 a short talk on a species of algae which had been most disagreeably abundant 

 in Lake Pontchartrain a few months back. Mr. R. S. Cocks exhibited photo- 

 graphs of what may prove to be a new species of honey locust, Gleditschia, 

 discovered near Shreveport. The society then adjourned. This society has 

 met continually since 1897, it consists of about 60 members residing in 

 different parts of the state and has for its object the study of all depart- 

 ments of natural history. The present oflBcers are: President, Prof. B. H. 

 Guilbeau, Secretary, R. S. Cocks, Treasurer, Mr. G. R. Westfeldt. 



We have been recently advised that Prof. J. L. Phillips, State Entomologist 

 of Virginia, is in need of an assistant in the orchard and nursery inspection 

 work of his oflBce. 



Mr. H. E. Hodgkiss has resigned his position as Assistant to the State 

 Entomologist of Illinois and returned to his former position at the New 

 York Agricultural Experiment Station. Address, Geneva, N. Y. 



Prof. "Walter E. Collinge, head of the Department of Economic Zoology 

 in the University of Birmingham, and Editor of the "Journal of Economic 

 Biology," has accepted the responsible position of Director of the Cooper 

 Research Laboratory at Berkhamsted, England. 



Appointments in the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C: 



Mr. G. E. Merrill of New Hampshire has been appointed as a special field 



agent and will take charge of demonstration work in orchard spraying in 



Nebraska. 



