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Dr. Guy C. Crampton (Princeton, 1904), Professor of Zoology at Clemson Col- 

 lege, South Carolina, has been appointed associate professor of entomology at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College. He spent two years in graduate study at (Cor- 

 nell University (M. A.) followed by two years at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich 

 and Berlin, where he received his Ph. D. in 1908. Dr. Crampton has studied under 

 Professors Comstock, Riley, Slingerland and MacGillivray in entomology in this 

 country, and with Professors Heymous, Kolbe and Degener, abroad. His work at 

 the college, which will begin some time in April, will be mainly in insect morphology. 



Mr. W. F. Fiske, of the Bureau of Entomology, and located at the Gypsy Moth 

 Parasite Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass., sailed January 5th for Europe. He 

 expects to be absent until next fall, and will make parasite investigations in Italy, 

 France, Russia and Japan before returning to the United States. 



It has been stated in Entomological News that Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and A. 

 Busck of the Bureau of Entomology were to leave for Panama some time in January 

 to make a study of the entomological fauna of the Canal Zone, and to search for 

 parasites of the citrus white fly Aleyrodes citri and the cotton boll weevil and allied 

 species. 



According to Science, there has been a movement on foot in the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine to commemorate the work of Dr. J. E. Dutton, who lost his 

 life in the Congo by contracting spirillum fever in 1905. The movement has been 

 successful, and the School has given to Liverpool University the sum of £10,000, 

 which has been accepted for the establishment of a chair in Tropical Entomology. 



Mr. U. C. Loftin, B. S., a graduate of the class of 1910 of the North Carolina Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College, has been appointed Laboratory Assistant in Ento- 

 mology at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Gainesville, Fla., and entered 

 upon his duties December 1st, 1910. All departments of the Station, including 

 that of entomology, are now housed in the commodious new building. 



Prof. H. T. Fernald of the Massachusetts Agricultural College addressed the first 

 annual meeting of the Massachusetts Nurserymen's Association at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston, December 7, on the "Problem and Progress of Nursery Inspection in 

 Massachusetts." 



Prof. F. Picard has been made Professor of Agricultural Zodlogy and Entomology 

 at the Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture at Montpellier, France, in place of the late 

 Prof. Valery Mayet. Professor Picard will be glad to be placed in relation with 

 American economic entomologists and to receive their publications in exchange for 

 his. 



Mr. Harper Dean, formerly connected with the Bureau of Entomology and more 

 recently editor of the San Antonio Semi-Weekly Express, has accepted the position 

 of Assistant State Entomologist of Texas, and is now located at College Station. 

 Mr. Dean will assist State Entomologist Wilmon Newell in the work of that office, 

 in addition to conducting investigations for the Texas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



We are advised that Prof. F. L. Washburn, St. Anthony Park, Minn., desires an 

 assistant in laboratory, class room and insectary; also a field man properly qualified, 

 for experimentation, demonstration to farmers, examining imported and domestic 

 nurserj' stock. Good salaries to the proper parties. 



Mailed February 15, 1911. 



