April, '16] SCIENTIFIC NOTES 315 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, William Edgar 

 Darnall, M. D., Atlantic City; first vice-president, H. H. Brinkerhoff, M. D., Jersey 

 City; second vice-president, Robert F. Engle, Beach Haven; secretary-treasurer, 

 Thomas J. Headlee, Ph.D., New Brunswick. 



The proceedings will be pubUshed. 



Conference of Officials Engaged in Gipsy Moth Work. A conference of Officials 

 Engaged in Gipsy Moth Work was held in Boston on February 15, 1916. Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, presided and the following officials and 

 visitors were present. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada, 



Mr. John D. Totlull, Field Officer, Entomological Branch, Fredricton, N. B. 



Mr. L. S. McLaine, Field Officer, Entomological Branch, Fredricton, N. B. 



Mr. G. E. Sanders, Field Officer, Entomological Branch, AnnapoUs Royal, N. S. 



Mr. E. J. Cadey, Special Agent, in Charge of Gipsy Moth Work, Portland, Me. 



Prof. W. C. O'Kane, Deputy Commissioner, In Charge of Moth Work, Durham, 

 N. H. 



Mr. W. O. Osgood, Assistant in Gipsy Moth Work, Durham, N. H. 



Mr. H. L. BaUey, In Charge of Suppression of Insect Pests, Bradford, Vt. 



Dr. H. T. Fernald, State Inspector of Nurseries, Amherst, Mass. 



Mr. R. H. AUen, Assistant Inspector of Nurseries, Boston, Mass. 



Mr. C. O. Bailey, Secretary, Massachusetts State Forester, Boston, Mass. 



Mr. George A. Smith, Assistant, Massachusetts State Forester, Boston, Mass. 



Mr. Paul D. Kneeland, Assistant, Massachusetts State Forester, Boston, Mass. 



Mr. Harry B. Ramsey, District Moth Superintendent, Worcester, Mass. 



Mr. Harold L. Neale, City Forester, Worcester, Mass. 



Mr. AUen Chamberlain, Massachusetts Forestry Association, Boston, Mass. 



Mr. Harry Horovitz, Assistant Entomologist, Providence, R. I. 



Mr. I. W. Davis, Assistant Entomologist, New Haven, Conn. 



Dr. G. G. Atwood, Chief, Bureau of Horticulture, Albany, N. Y. 



Mr. Harry B. Weiss, Assistant Entomologist, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Mr. E. R. Sasscer, Chief Inspector, Federal Horticultural Board, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. R. I. Smith, Quarantine Inspector, Federal Horticultural Board, Boston, Mass. 



The following assistarits of the Bureau of Entomology, engaged on Gipsy Moth 

 Investigations, were also present: A. F. Burgess, J. W. Chapman, G. E. Clement, 

 C. W. Collins, S. S. Grossman, R. W. Glaser, H. L. Mclntyre, C. W. Minott, WiUis 

 Munro, D. M. Rogers, C. W. Stockwell, J. N. Summers and L. H. Worthley. 



The meeting was called for the purpose of conferring on gipsy moth and brown-tail 

 moth problems and reports were given as to moth conditions in each state and the 

 Dominion of Canada. 



The morning session was occupied with these reports and their discussion. 



In the afternoon reports were made by different members of the Federal force- 

 A report was given on each hne of work and a general discussion followed. Those who 

 attended expressed the opinion that much benefit had been secured at the conference. 

 An invitation was presented to those who attended as well as to a number of states 

 that were not fully represented, to inspect the field work early in July. 



In the evening many of those who attended the conference were present at the 

 regular meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club. After the regular program 

 of the club had been completed, interesting remarks were made by Doctor Howard, 

 Doctor Hewitt, Doctor Wheeler, Doctor Fernald, and Doctor Johnson. 



On Thursday morning a number of the officials took advantage of the opportunity 

 to visit the Gipsy Moth Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, Mass., and inspect the 

 work which was being carried on there and examine the equipment and apparatus 

 which is used in the field work. 



