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did some collecting and study in other lines. A Southern California butterfly 

 was named in liis honor by Henry Edwards, Colzas harfordii. 



Dr. Fenyes, of Pasadena, will go East in May, to Cambridge and Washington, 

 to do some work in the libraries there. He will also do some collecting in 

 Kentucky, Virginia and Carolina. 



Mr. J. R. Haskin, of Los Angeles, has recently made trips to San Diego and 

 Arizona, getting a lot of interesting and valuable material, including the rare 

 Melitaea neumoegenii of Northern Arizona. 



Mr. J. C. Bridwell, of the University of California, has been stationed in the 

 Imperial Valley for some time engaged in certain problems in economic 

 entomology. 



The Biological Society of the Pacific Coast was organized at Berkeley on 

 April 1, with Dr. V. L. Kellogg as President. It starts with a membership of 

 seventy. 



Mr. C. W. Metz, of Pomona College, will enter work in September as a 

 fellow-assistant under Dr. Jordan at Stanford University. Mr. Metz has just had 

 an extensive paper on the American bees of the genus Prosopis published by the 

 American Entomological Society. He has brought order out of chaos in this most 

 difficult genus. The work of Swenk, and now of Metz, marks a radical departure 

 from the extraordinarily superficial and confusing methods of work in American 

 bees and wasps heretofore current, and is most timely and salutary. 



Mr. D. L. Crawford, of Pomona College, enters work in September as a 

 fellow-assistant under Dr. V. L. Kellogg, of Stanford University. Mr. Crawford 

 has just finished verj' extensive work on the Psyllidae of the world. His studies 

 have embraced the comparative anatomy of all the genera of the world, and he is 

 presenting for the first time a complete systematic treatment of the whole group. 



Mr. J. W. Prizer, of Pomona College, has been appointed technical assistant 

 in economic entomology and plant pathology to the Manager of the San Diego 

 Land and Town Company, one of the largest horticultural enterprises in Southern 

 California. 



Prof. Baker, with a large party of special students, will spend the summer on 

 the Coast where they have established a laboratory for work in marine zoology. 



