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Mr. Arthur N. Rosenfeld, director of the Tucumau Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Argentine Republic, has recently resigned to take charge of the 25000-acre 

 cane fields of Hileret & Company, Ltd., the largest sugar factory in South America. 

 This firm maintains a private experiment station. Mr. Rosenfeld 's address is Santa 

 Ana, Provincia de Tucuman, Republica Argentina. 



Recent appointments in the Maryland State College of Agriculture and the Mary- 

 land Experiment Station include Mr. C. J. Pierson, assistant in the Department of 

 Entomologjf and Zoology in the college, who will devote his time to teaching; Mr. 

 O. I. Snapp, Fellow in insect investigations in the college and station; Dr. Phihp 

 Garman, assistant entomologist in the station, and K. W. Babcock, student assistant 

 in entomology. 



Mr. Ijgnaz Matausch, a member of the New York Entomological Society, and an 

 artist and modeler on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, died 

 December 14, 1915, at the age of 47. Mr. Matausch constructed many of the large 

 models of insects exhibited in the Hall of Public Health in the museum ; he also worked 

 out the life histories of several species of Membracid* and published eight papers on 

 this family in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 



In the Bureau of Entomology the following transfers have been made as regards 

 locations: R. S. Woglum, Pasadena to Alhambra, Cal.; F. L. McDonough, Quincy, 

 Fla., to Clarksville, Tenn.; W. H. Larrimer, Missoula, Mont., to Charleston, Mo.; 

 A. B. Gahan, College Park, Md., to Berwyn, Md.; R. J. Kewley, College Park, Md., 

 to Columbia, S. C; W. H. Willis, Boston, Mass., to Newark, N. J.; D. G. Tower, 

 Newark, N. J., and H. L. Sanford, to Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. L. Webb to study horse 

 flies in Nevada and other western states. 



Recent appointments to the Bureau of Entomology are as follows: G. M. Ander- 

 son and A. J. Flebut, assigned to the laboratory at Tallulah, La.; V. G. Stevens, 

 Walnut Creek, Cal.; Dr. P. A. Boncquet, Southern CaUfornia, and Prof.H. F. Wilson, 

 Madison, Wis., collaborators; Scott C. Lyon, Oakley M. Shelby, A. D. Bosley, Samuel 

 F. Grubs, Carl A. Wickland, D. M. Rogers, Joe Milam, Kenneth B. McKinney, F. G. 

 Sorrells, Richard K. Catlett, Walter C. Nagle, Louis A. Stearns, L. S. Hale and Ed- 

 mund H. Vance, temporary field agents in tobacco insect investigations. 



A recent visitor at the Drummond Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology was 

 Mr. C. Hanslope Bocock, assigned by the British Board of Agriculture to study dis- 

 eases of adult bees in the United States. The so-called " Lsle-of- Wight " disease, or 

 Microsporidiosis, is reported to have caused extensive losses in Great Britain, and 

 the object of this investigation is to learn something of the diseases of adult bees in 

 America and throw some light on the conditions observed abroad. Mr. Bocock 

 spent a month recently with Dr. Burton N. Gates, Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Amherst, and will visit other parts of the United States. 



A conference was held at the office of the health commissioner of New York City, 

 August 10, at 2 o'clock p. m., to plan an entomological survey with particular refer- 

 ence to the fly problem as a possible means of transmission of infantile paralysis 

 (Poliomyelitis) in New York City and vicinity. Those attending the conference were 

 as follows" Dr. Haven Emerson, Health Commissioner, New York; Dr. W. H. Frost 

 and Dr. Freeman of the United States Public Health Service; Dr. M. B. Mitzmain, 

 entomologist of the United States Public Health Service; Dr. E. P. Felt, state ento- 

 mologist, Albany, N. Y.; Dr. T. J. Headlee, state entomologist, and C. H. Richard- 

 .son, assistant, New Brunswick, N. J.; Prof. Charles T. Brues, Bussey Institution, 

 Forest Hills, Mass.; Dr. W. E. Britton, state entomologist. New Haven, Conn. 



