WINTER NUMBER ot 
Ft. Myers, and A. H. Andrews of Estero. Five of the men have 
been members of our society for some time and the president is 
a charter member. Most of the men are connected with the State 
Plant Board. 
The society meets once each week and in addition to other work 
they are studying Sanderson and Jackson’s text book on ento- 
mology. 
It was the Editor’s good fortune to meet with them the last 
week in October. A more wide-awake and earnest group of men 
would be hard to find. Men who will spend the whole of a sum- 
mer day in Florida in a grove looking for citrus canker and then 
spend the evening studying entomology will be heard from. 
May the branch grow as has the parent. ° 
AS OTHERS SEE US 
Under the heading “The Florida Entomological Society and 
Its New Organ,” the Entomological News of Philadelphia in its 
November issue gives a brief notice of our society and The Bug- 
gist, concluding with, ‘No richer field for the cultivation of en- 
tomology than the Southeastern States exist, and such a society 
as that of Florida ought to flourish as the whitefly, the sweet po- 
tato root weevil and the Anopheles mosquito which their mem- 
bers discuss in their new journal. May they succeed in eradi- 
cating these insect pests and their society and Buggist widen 
our knowledge for many years to come.” 
PERSONALS 
Our first Secretary-Treasurer, R. N. Wilson, now Agricultural 
Demonstration Agent for Palm Beach County, who met with a 
serious automobile accident, is now out again. 
Prof. W. S. Blatchley, former State Geologist of Indiana and 
author of several papers on Florida insects, who addressed us 
last winter, passed thru Gainesville on November 30 bound for 
his winter home in Dunedin. 
Mr. C. H. Popenoe of the U. S. Bur. Ent., Washington, is now 
in Florida in connection with extension work on the sweet- 
potato root weevil in cooperation with the Experiment Station 
and the State Plant Board. 
Dr. E. A. Back, also of the Bureau, was in Gainesville the first 
of the month making arrangements for an extension entomolo- 
gist to take up storage insects and especially the corn weevil in 
cooperation with the University. 
