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Ml". R. W. Harned. who was Assistant Entomologist under Prof. Herrick, 

 has been placed in charge of the entomological work in Mississippi. 



Prof. C. E. Chambliss has resigned as State Entomologist of South Carolina 

 and has accepted a position with the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture. He will have charge of rice investigations. Ad- 

 dress, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. E. V. Wilcox, who had charge of preparing data on entomological pub- 

 lications for the Experiment Station Record, has been appointed Director of 

 the Haw-aiian Agricultural Experiment Station at Honolulu, Haw^aii. He is 

 now in charge of the work there. 



Mr. W. A. Hooker of the Bureau of Entomology is now in charge of the 

 work formerly carried on by Dr. Wilcox for the Office of Experiment Stations. 

 Address. Washington, D. C. 



Prof. C. F. Adams, Professor of Entomology at the University of Arkansas, 

 has, in addition to his present duties, been made Acting Director of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station and Acting Dean of the College of Agriculture of 

 that institution, vice Prof. W. G. Vincenheller, resigned. 



Mr. H. L. Yiereck has accepted a position as Entomologist for the Parke, 

 Davis Company. Detroit, Mich. 



Mr. Jacob Kotinsky has been appointed Superintendent of Entomology by 

 the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of Hawaii. The 

 position was made vacant by the death of Alexander Craw. 



Mr. D. H. Kuhns has been ap]tointed assistant inspector under Mr. Kotin- 

 sky. 



Mr. George G. Ainslee, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and Mr. 

 T. D. Urbahns. a graduate of the Coloi'ado Agricultural College, are now em- 

 ployed by the Bureau of Entomology as Special Field Agents and are working 

 on insects which affect cereal and forage crops. 



Mr. J. B. Garret. Associate Entomologist of the Louisiana Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station at Baton Rouge, has been appointed Assistant Director of the 

 North Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Calhoun, La. 



Prof. Carlos E. Porter, editor Revinta Chilena de Historia Natural, Ca- 

 silla 2352, Santiago. Chili, has recently written Dr. L. O. How-ard that he is 

 anxious to secure papers published in the last twelve or fifteen years on 

 Acari, Longicorns, Centipedes, Hemiptera, Algse, Fungi and Crustacea. He 

 also states that specialists w-ho may desire to study the collections in the 

 newly formed Museum of Valparaiso will be allowed to do so under the fol- 

 lowing conditions : (a) Specialist to retain duplicates ; (b) Specialist to return 

 one male and one female determined; (c) Specialist to send typewritten diag- 

 nosis of new species for i)ublication in the Remsta. One hundred separates of 

 each article will be furnished. 



An examination made by Mr. J. C. Crawford of the United States National 

 Museum of the work of the late Dr. W. H. Ashmead brings out the fact that 

 he has described over 500 new genera and over 3,100 new species of insects. 



Mailed December 15, 1908. 



