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Mr. E. E. Scholl has resigned as instructor in entomology at the Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College, College Station, Texas. 



Mr. R. E. Snodgrass has resigned his position with the Bureau of Entomology. 



Dr. Samuel H. Scudder of Cambridge, Ma.ss., the veteran author of the monu- 

 mental three-volume work on the Butterflies of the Eastern United States and 

 Canada, and well known for his classic works on the Orthoptera and fossil insects, 

 died May 17, at the age of seventy-four years. 



Col. William Gorgas of the United States Army, who has had charge of several 

 sanitary crusades, especially in doing away with mosquito breeding places in locali- 

 ties where yellow fever is prevalent, was honored by Tulane University with the 

 degree of Doctor of Laws. 



It is gratifying to note that George Washington University has conferred the 

 honorary degree of M. D. upon the highly esteemed chief of the United States Bureau 

 of Entomology, Dr. L. O. Howard. This is not only a recognition of the abilities of 

 the man, but is striking testimony to the standing economic entomology is beginning 

 to hold in the estimation of the medical profession. 



We learn through the College Signal of the Massachusetts .Agricultural College, that 

 A. H. Kirkland, well known to entomologists because of the prominent part he took 

 in gipsy and brown-tail moth work in Massachusetts, is now in Utah for special serv- 

 ice in connection with the United States Bureau of Entomology investigation of 

 .the alfalfa weevil. 



A notice just at hand states that Charles P. Lounsbury, entomologist, Cape Town, 

 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, has become chief of the Di\ision of Entomology, 

 Union Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, South Africa. We trust that this means 

 promotion and an enlarged field for one who has made an enviable record in a country 

 distant from entomological centers. 



We learn through Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, that Mr. D. Van Hove has been appointed ento- 

 mologist for Belgium, the information being transmitted by the American consul at 

 Ghent, through the Secretary of State and Secretary of Agriculture. 



The Minnesota State Legislature, at its last session, appropriated six thousand 

 dollars for two years' work against grasshoppers under the direction of the State 

 Entomologist. Grasshoppers were injurious in 1909 and 1910, destroying at least 

 two thirds of the flax crop of the state. Three or four men are already in the field at 

 different points of the Red River valley, aiming to discover some method or methods 

 by which the individual farmer can protect his crops from these insects. 



Mailed June 22, 1911. 



