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Purdue University has recently established a new department of entomology, with 

 Prof. James Troop as its head. Professor Troop has taught both horticulture 

 and entomology for twenty-seven years. Now he will give his entire time to ento- 

 mology. 



P. H. Hertzog of Bucknell College, formerly of the Laboratory of Economic Zoology 

 at Harrisburg, Pa., is assistant for the summer in the Bureau of Entomology, depart- 

 ment of cereal and forage insect investigations, under Prof. F. M. Webster. 



According to Science, Dr. Robert Newstead, lecturer in economic entomology and 

 parasitology in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has been appointed to the 

 newly established Button Memorial Chair of Entomology in the University of Liver- 

 pool. 



F. C. Craighead of State College, Pennsylvania, is now connected with the Bureau 

 of Entomology, in the department of forest insect investigations, under Dr. A. D. 

 Hopkins. 



The legislature of Oregon has made an appropriation of .$2.5,000 annually to the 

 Experiment Station, .11.5,000 of which is to be used in the investigation of crop and 

 fruit pests and other horticultural problems. 



Prof. L. Bruner, State Entomologist of Nebraska, is spending the summer on 

 his farm near Worland, Wyo. During his absence the entomological investi- 

 gations in Nebraska are being directed by his assistant, Prof. Myron H. Swenk. 

 At a recent meeting of the Board of Regents of the University, Professor Swenk was 

 promoted to the rank of associate professor. 



Dr. L. O. Howard was recently elected a member of the American Philosophical 



Society. 



Dr. E. W. Berger, entomologist of the Florida Experiment Station, has resigned 

 to accept the position of inspector of nursery stock for the state of Florida. Mr. 

 Berger began his new duties July 1st with his office in the Experiment Station 

 Building, Gainesville, Fla. 



Mr. U. C. Loftin, laboratory assistant to the entomologist of the Florida 

 Agricultural Station, has resigned to teach agriculture in a high school in Texas. 



Mr. F. C. Pratt died at Dallas, Tex., on May 27, 1911. He was one of the 

 oldest employees of the Bureau of Entomology. His service began in 1892 and 

 extended over a period of nineteen years. An Englishman by birth, Mr. Pratt's 

 early entomological training was obtained in the British Museum and in the 

 Rothchild Museum at Tring. For the past five years he was connected with the 

 Southern Field Crop Insect Investigation of the Bureau of Entomology. A more 

 extended notice will appear in the next issue of the Proceedings of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Washington. 



Mr. D. W. Coquillett, widely known as the leading American Dipterist, died 

 July 8, 1911, at Atlantic City, N. J., at the age of fifty-four. 



Mailed August 15, 1911. 



