August, '08] JOURNAL OP ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 279 



circular devoted to the insect. Two circulars and two hnlletins liave been 

 issued by the Bureau. 



At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, Dr. Charles H. Feruald, for many years Professor of 

 Zoology aiid Entomology at that institution, was electe<l Director of the Grad- 

 uate School. This appointment comes as a tribute to the work of Dr. Fernald, 

 who has been very active in securing graduate courses at that institution. 



Dr. H. J. Franklin, who received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College in June, has accepted a position with the 

 Minnesota State Entomologist at St. Anthony Park. He will teach Ento- 

 mology in the I'niversity of Minnesota and conduct investigation work in the 

 Experimental Station. 



Mr. W. F. Turner, who received his Bachelor's degree from the depart- 

 ment of Entomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has been ap- 

 pointed Assistant to the State Entomologist of Alabama. He will be engaged 

 in investigation work at the Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. J. G. Hyslop, who graduated from the same institution in June, has 

 been appointed Assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. C. C. (Jowdy, who graduated in the class of 1908, Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, has secured a position as Assistant at the Gypsy Moth Para- 

 site Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



Mr. H. B. Filer, who graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege in 1906, and who since that time has been connected with the Shade Tree 

 Commission in Newark. X. J., has been appointed City Forester of Buffalo, 

 N. Y. He has charge of the shade trees and forestry interests and has been 

 pushing the spray and other operations for the protection of the city trees 

 against injurious insect pests with great vigor. Tliere is need of more 

 men in this line of work, judging from the poor condition of many shade trees 

 in the eastern United States. 



Prof. C. W. Howard, Entomologist of the Transvaal, South Africa, has re- 

 signed to accept a position with the Portuguese government. His headquar- 

 ters will be at Delagoa Bay. South Africa. 



Dr. F. Silvestri of the Scuola Superiore di Agricoltura at Portici, Italy, a 

 foreign member of this Association, who is spending the sunnner in this 

 country, recently visited the Gypsy Moth Parasite Laboratory at Melrose High- 

 lands, Mass. Dr. Silvestri will spend considerable time examining entomo- 

 logical collections in the American Museum of Natural History in New York 

 City. He will also visit California and some of the southern states before 

 returning to Italy. 



H. J. Quayle. Assistant I'rofessor of Entomology in the University of Cali- 

 fornia, began work July 1, 1908, at the Southern California Pathological Lab- 

 oratory, Whittier, Cal., and is engaged in the study of some of the insects of 

 the citrus fruits. 



Prof. Charles S. Banks, Government Entomologist, Manila, P. I., spent 

 several weeks in this country studying the collections at Washington, New 

 York and Albany. He returns via Eurojie and will study the collections at 

 the British Museum, Leyden, Brussels, Berlin, Stockholm and Turin. Prof. 

 Banks has been giving particular attention to Culicidie and has succeeded in 

 rearing some extremely interesting forms. 



Prof. C. W. Woodworth, Berkeley, Cal., spent a short time in the East, 

 visiting some of the more important entomological centers. 



