62 THE FLORIDA BUGGIST 
Mr. W. V. Millington is assisting in the port inspection 
service at Key West, for the Federal Horticultural Board and 
the State Plant Board. 
Mr. Shirley B. Walker has been reappointed Assistant Nur- 
sery Inspector for the State Plant Board. 
According to the Monthly Letter of the U. S. Bureau of 
Entomology, Mr. H. E. Loomis, who has just returned from 
service in the Marine Corps, has been appointed Assistant 
Entomological Inspector in the Division of Truck Crop Inves- 
tigations with headquarters at Macclenny, Fla. 
Another member of the staff of the Experiment Station, 
Professor S. E. Collison, the chemist, has resigned his posi- 
tion to go into commercial work in New York. The migration 
of the older experienced men from the faculties of our uni- 
versities and other scientific institutions into commercial lines 
‘has reached the proportions of almost a stampede and is a most 
alarming state of affairs which is bound to seriously affect the 
value of these institutions for decades to come. Our public 
schools, with their constantly shifting personnel among the 
teachers, furnish a shining example of the evils that result 
when teachers look upon their positions as a mere temporary 
occupation to be dropped as soon as something better can be 
secured. While all true scientific workers labor for the love 
of science, still they must eat and their families, if they have 
been rash enough to follow the teachings of the eugenicists and 
raise one, must be fed, clothed, and educated. In many cases 
this has become impossible on a salary whose purchasing 
power has been cut in two since pre-war days. ; 
Thos. H. Jones, Entomological Assistant, U. S. Bureau of 
Entomology, and a member of our Society, who maintained for 
a few months at Ft. Myers a laboratory for the study of insects 
of truck crops, has returned to Louisiana. The station at Ft. 
Myers has been abandoned. 
Mr. Weigel, of Washington, D. C., recently visited Satsuma 
and Gainesville in the interest of Camphor Thrips work. 
Mr. E. F. DeBusk, formerly County Agent for Orange 
County and until recently with the Wilson Toomer Fertilizer 
Company, at Winter Haven, has accepted a position as 
Assistant Boys’ Club Agent with the Extension Division of 
the College of Agriculture. 
The unofficial nursery inspection duties of F. M. O’Byrne 
have been increased. Boy, 10 pounds. 
