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According to Science, a biological expedition to the island of Santo Domingo will 

 be made next fall by Professor J. G. Needham, and Messrs. J. T. Needham, Ludlow 

 Griscom and K. P. Schmidt of the entomological department of Cornell University. 



The Annual Massachusetts convention of beekeepers will be held at Amherst, 

 Mass., March 14 to 16, inclusive. This convention wiU conclude the winter school 

 of beekeeping at the Agricultural College. 



Professor Geo. A. Dean, of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, 

 Kan., will offer the courses of instruction in entomology in the second term of the 

 Summer Session, at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. 



Mr. Geo. H. Vansell resigned his position on the staff of the State Entomologist 

 of the University of Kansas, on December 1, to accept the position of assistant pro- 

 fessor of entomology at the University of Kentucky. 



Mr. Fred W. Poos, Jr., a graduate student of the University of Kansas, takes the 

 place on the staff of the State Entomologist made vacant by the resignation of Mr. 

 Vansell. 



According to Science, Assistant Professor A. L. Lovett has been made acting head 

 of the entomological department of the Oregon Agricultural College, vice H. F. 

 Wilson, who resigned recently to accept a professorship m entomology at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. 



Entomological News announces the death of Dr. Frederick W. Russell, formerly 

 of Winchendon, Mass., on November 20, 1915, at the age of 71. Dr. Russell was 

 particularly interested in the Lepidoptera and for years collected moths at light at 

 his home in Winchendon. 



According to Science, Mr. Herbert T. Osborn, a graduate of Ohio State University 

 in 1909, and son of Professor Herbert Osborn, has been sent by the Sugar Planters' 

 Association of Honolulu to Formosa to secure parasites to use in Hawaii to control 

 the cane beetle. 



Mr. E. W. Geyer, Bureau of Entomology, who spent the summer at Roswell, 

 N. M., in orchard spraying and dusting work, has returned to Washington for 

 conference and for the completion of the report on the life history of the codhng 

 moth in New Mexico. 



Mr. E. R. Van Leeuwen, who has been assisting Mr. Siegler in codhng moth inves- 

 tigations at Grand Junction, Colo., has been transferred to the Bureau of Entomology 

 field station at Benton Harbor, Mich, Mr. Van Leeuwen will shortly leave the 

 service to resume his college studies. 



Mr. Henry L. Viereck, who recently resigned from the CaUfornia State Insectaryr 

 for a few weeks in November was at the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City; he is .now connected with the Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



According to Entomological Netvs, M. Charles Kerremans, a student of the Bupres- 

 tidjE in Europe, died October 10 at the age of 68. Mr. Kerremans was engaged in 

 the preparation of a monograph of this family of beetles, which had not been com- 

 pleted at the time of his death. 



