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Dr. S. B. Fracker lias been appointed acting state entomologist of Wisconsin by the 

 commissioner of agrisulture, and will have charge of the work of the state entomolo- 

 gist's office until a successor to Professor Sanders is appointed. 



Mr. C. B. Williams, formerly a Carnegie entomological student sent to the United 

 States from Great Britain, has accepted an appointment from the Board of Agri- 

 culture, Trinidad, to study the parasites of the sugar-cane froghopper there. 



According to Science, it has been planned to erect on the campus of his alma mater, 

 the University of Virginia, a memorial to the late Maj. Walter Reed of the United 

 States Army, who demonstrated the tran.smission of yellow fever by mosquitoes. 



According to the Review of Applied Entomology, second lieutenant R. A. F. 

 Eminson, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who recently made important investigations on 

 the bionomics of Glossina morsilans in Northern Rhodesia, has been killed in action. 



Prof. Charles T. Brues, Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Mass., has been engaged 

 temporarily as entomologist to the Health Department of New York City, to study 

 the insects possibly responsible for the transmission of infantile paralysis in the recent 

 outbreak in New York City. 



Mr. W. F. Fi.skc arrived in Washington on August 10. He expects to .spend about 

 two months in the country and then return to England. The Imperial Bureau of 

 Entomology contemplates resuming the work on the bionomics of tsetse flies in 

 Africa immediateh' after the war. 



An error regarding the appointments of Prof. David D. Whitney and Homer B. 

 Latimer occurs on page 446 of the August is.sue of this Journal. It should read 

 that: they have been appointed professor and a.ssistant professor, respectively, of 

 zoology in the University of Nebraska. 



Dr. M. C. Tanquary, assistant professor of Entomology, Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, who was granted a leave of absence in 1913 to accompany the Crocker Land 

 Expedition, has returned to the Kansas Agricultural College and will continue his 

 work in the college and experiment station. 



At the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn., an outdoor insectary 

 10' X 16', covered with wire netting and provided with a temporary roof of canvas 

 which can be rolled .up, was constructed, early in the summer, for work with the pine 

 sawfly, Diprion simile Hartig, and other insects. 



The following entomological workers have recently left the employ of the Bureau 

 of Entomology: ^\'illiam B. Middleton, resigned to study entomology at Cornell 

 University; Ray B. Ellis and C. Joseph Manter, Hayward, Cal., appointments e.\- 

 pired; Charles E. Smith, Baton Rouge, La., resigned. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, and Prof. D. F. Marvin, 

 chief of the Weather Bureau, have been appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to 

 represent the United States Department of Agriculture on the Council of Research 

 which is now being organized by the National Academy of Sciences. 



Additional Edibility Tests of Insect Larvse: In the Bureau of Entomology, Mr 

 V. A. Roberts cooked some larva" of the squash borer, Mclittia saiyriniformis Hubn. ; 

 this dish was sampled by Dr. Howard, and Messrs. Roberts, 0"Leary, Duckett, 

 Jacobs and White, all pronouncing it good. Mr. E. H. Gibson has made similar tests 

 of the larvff of Plathypcna scahra. 



