44 THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
PERSONALS 
Dean P. H. Rolfs, for the past 15 years Director of the Flor- 
ida Agricultural Experiment Station and a charter member of 
our Society, has been granted a four years’ leave of absence to 
found and conduct an agricultural institution in the state of 
Minas Geraes, Brazil. He sails from New York on Jan. 19. At 
a special convocation on December 22 the University conferred 
the degree of Doctor of Science on Dean Rolfs. 
Professor Herbert Osborn of Ohio State University is ex- 
pected in Gainesville about Jan. 15. He will spend several 
weeks in the state collecting jassids. 
Mr. W. S. Blatchley has arrived at his winter home in Dun- 
edin. He is planning a two weeks’ collecting trip to Paradise 
Key and extreme southern Florida some time in February. 
Mr. A. H. Beyer, who is now engaged in the Corn Borer 
Laboratory of the U. S. Bur. of Ent. at Arlington, Mass., is 
spending a ten days’ vacation with his father at Lakeland. 
According to the Jour. of Econ. Ent., John B. Gill, who has 
been in charge of the Pecan Insects investigations for the U. S. 
Bur. of Ent. at Monticello, Fla., has been transferred to Brown- 
wood, Texas. 
Plant Commissioner Newell, Dr. Montgomery, F. M. O’Byrne, 
and Frank Stirling are in attendance upon the meetings of the 
Amer. Ass. of Economic Entomologists at Chicago. 
Miss Evelyn Osborn is now Professor of Entomology in the 
Agricultural College of Syracuse University. 
Mr. H. L. Dozier, formerly Assistant in the Department of 
Entomology of the Experiment Station and now with the Miss. 
State Plant Board, stopped over in Gainesville recently. 
Announcements are out of the marriage of Mr. U. C. Loftin 
to Miss Mae M. Lebeuf of New Orleans. At home after Jan. 
15th, at Tlahualilo, Durango, Mexico. 
Dr. Wilmon Newell, Plant Commissioner, and retiring Presi- 
dent of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, 
was elected to the Committee on Policy of the Association at its 
Chicago meeting, December 29-31, 1920. The Committee subse- 
quently selected Dr. Newell as its Chairman. 
Messrs. C. H. Popenoe and J. E. Graf, in charge of the sweet 
potato weevil eradication work in the South, are expected at 
Gainesville about February first, and will make a tour of the 
State in connection with this work. 
