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Mr. W. F. Fiske, who was in charge of the Gypsy Moth Parasite Laboratory 

 at Melrose Highlands, Mass., sailed for Europe August 25. He will travel 

 in England and France, visiting the museums and securing information 

 which will be of especial value in the work of importing parasites of gypsy 

 and brown-tail moths. 



Mr. Charles W. Flynn, who is taking a medical course at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been employed during the summer by the Bureau of En- 

 tomology as temporary assistant in the cotton boll weevil investigations. 



Mr. W. Harper Deane has been appointed special field agent of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, and will be connected with the investigation of cereal and 

 forage crop insects. 



Dr. Jas. A. Nelson, formerly honorary fellow in entomology and inverte- 

 brate zoology at Cornell University, has accepted an appointment with the 

 Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C, and will investigate certain prob- 

 lems in the embryology of the honey bee. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips and Dr. G. F. White of the Bureau of Entomology spent 

 the summer in southern California, carrying on experiments in treating 

 American foul brood. 



Mr. Burton M. Gates and Mr. A. H. McCray, who have been employed in 

 the agricultural investigations of the Bureau of Entomology, were granted 

 a furlough October 1. The former will attend Clark University and the lat- 

 ter will finish his course at the Ohio State University. 



Mr. Robert Newstead, lecturer in economic entomology and parasitology 

 in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, will visit Jamaica in November 

 to investigate the ticks and other insects which transmit animal diseases. 



At a recent meeting of the Association of Economic Biologists held at Edin- 

 burg, Mr. A. E. Shipley, president of the association, delivered an address on 

 "Rats and Their Parasites." 



Mr. W. R. Thompson, who has been employed during the summer at the 

 Gypsy Moth Parasite Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass., has returned to 

 Guelph, Ontario, to finish his course at the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 where he is specializing in economic entomology. 



Mr. Douglas H. demons, who has for the past two years been employed 

 at the same laboratory, has been appointed assistant in the Division of In- 

 sects at the U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. He will work princi- 

 pally on the coleoptera. 



Mailed October 15, 1908. 



