24 THE FLORIDA BUGGIST 
PERSONALS 
Dr. E. W. Berger, the president of the Society, has recently 
returned after two weeks spent in Ohio. 
Mr. C. E. Wilson, Assistant Entomologist of the State Plant 
Board, Gainesville, Fla., has resigned and gone to Bloomington, 
Ind., where he becomes instructor in zoology at the University 
of Indiana. Mr. Wilson will also do university work towards 
obtaining the Ph. D. degree. 
Mr. W. W. Yothers, of the U. S. Ent. Lab. at Orlando, has 
been spending several months in Washington, D. C. 
Mr. H. L. Dozier, formerly Laboratory Assistant in Ento- 
mology at the Experiment Station, who has been holding a tem- 
porary appointment with the U. S. Bur. Ent. at Columbia, S. 
C., has secured a permanent appointment and has been sent to 
Tempe, Ariz. 
Mr. A. C. Mason, also formerly Laboratory Assistant at the 
Station and later Assistant Entomologist of the Plant Board, 
who has been in Texas all summer working for the Federal 
Horticultural Board in their attempt to keep the Pink Boll- 
worm out of the U. S., has been called to the colors. 
Dr. H. S. Davis, our vice-president, has returned to the Uni- 
versity from Iowa, where he spent his vacation in the labora- 
tory of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries at’ Fairport. 
A member of our Society, Mr. Kurt F. Innecken, P. O. Box 
900, Savannah, Ga., desires to exchange Lepidoptera with some 
one in Florida, especially in the southern part of the State. 
Mr. F. F. Bibby, Assistant Nursery Inspector of the Plant 
Board, has been transferred to Gainesville as Temporary As- 
sistant in the Department of Enomology, in place of Mr. C. E. 
Wilson, resigned. 
Mr. A. H. Byers, Entomologist, Bur. of Ent., U. S. D. A., was 
a recent visitor at Gainesville, where he is conducting experi- 
ments in cooperation with Prof. J. R. Watson, Entomologist of 
the Fla. Expt. Station. 
The Pink Boll Worm has been discovered at Hearne, Texas. 
This pest, whose native habitat is probably India, was intro- 
duced into Mexico on cotton seed from Egypt, and is now 
menacing the cotton industry of the U. S. The worm is the 
caterpillar of a small moth, Gelechia gossypiella. Entomolo- 
gists of the Federal Horticultural Board are making every 
