448 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 9 



A short course in Apiculture was given at the Ontario Agricultural College at 

 Guelph, Ontario, January 11-22, 1916, for the sixth year. A summer school was also 

 held'from June 12-16. 



Mr. A. W. J. Pomeroy, who is now a captain in the third Nigerian Regiment, is in 

 this country for a short time on leave. He is to return to active service in British 

 West Africa on July 26. 



Mr. W. S. Fisher, Bureau of Entomology, spent most of the month of June in the 

 vicinity of Harrisburg, Pa., in continuation of his researches on the seasonal history 

 of the hickory-bark beetle. 



Miss Cora H. Clarke, of Boston, a collector and student of insect galls, died April 2, 

 1916, at the age of sixty-five years. Miss Clarke has published several papers on 

 •nsect galls and caddis-flies. 



The station of the Bureau of Entomology formerly maintained at Elk Point, 

 S. D., has been transferred and the present address of this station is 5205 Morn- 

 ingside Avenue, Sioux City, Iowa. 



Mr. J. N. KnuU, a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, was appointed May 1 

 as temporary field assistant of the Bureau of Entomology and assigned to assist Mr. 

 Craighead at East Falls Church, Va. 



Mr. N. F. Howard, Bureau of Entomology, will be engaged in the same line of 

 investigations as last year with headquarters at Madison, Wis.; his former station 

 at Green Bay will be retained as a sub-station. 



Dr. A. L. Quaintance, Bureau of Entomology, recently visited laboratories of the 

 Bureau at Monticello and Orlando, Fla., as well as other points in Florida and Georgia, 

 making observations on deciduous fruit insects. 



Mr. C. H. Popenoe, Bureau of Entomology, has returned from his tour of inspec- 

 tion in the states in which investigations are being carried on regarding the status and 

 control of insects as carriers of cucumber diseases. 



The new department of forest zoology has been established in the College of Fores- 

 try at Syracuse University, and Dr. Charles C. Adams has been promoted to a full 

 professorship and will have charge of this department. 



Mr. Irving L. Bailey, Bureau of Entomology, formerly connected with the gipsy- 

 moth force, has been transferred to the Federal Horticultural Board to assist in the 

 supervision of the disinfection of imported cotton at Boston. 



Dr. N. E. Mclndoo, Bureau of Entomology, spent about two weeks at Winchester, 

 Va., making observations on the effect on bees of spraying orchards. He also spent 

 some time in the general vicinity of Fennville, Mich., in similar work. 



Mr. R. I. Smith, who is in charge of the Federal Horticultural Board's office in 

 Boston, reports that since March 10, 1916, something over 65,000,000 pounds of cot- 

 ton have been disinfected by the two fumigation companies in that city. 



Mr. F. E. Brooks, Bureau of Entomology, engaged in fruit-tree borer investiga- 

 tions, with headquarters at French Creek, W. Va., spent some time visiting apple 

 orchards in the Northern States, making observations on fruit-tree borers. 



