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Ent. No. 103. Food Plant Catalogue of the Aphididae of the World. 

 Part VI. Edith M. Patch. 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Report for 1919, 

 pp. 



STATION NOTES. 

 Council and Staff Changes. 



At the June meeting of the Trustees, Mr. Ora Gilpatrick 

 was placed upon the Station Council, representing the Board of 

 Trustees in the place of Mr. Thomas E. Doherty. 



Doctor Frank M. Surface, Biologist of the Station, on 

 leave on war work since June 19 17, resigned in July, 1919, to 

 continue his work with Mr. Hoover in administering food relief 

 to neutrals and aliens. 



Mr. H. H. Hanson, the chemist of the Station on war leave 

 since January 1918, resigned in the spring of 1919 to take a 

 position at West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station as 

 chemist in charge of feeding stuffs control. 



Miss Helen A. Ring, Laboratory Assistant in Biology, re- 

 signed in November 1919. Miss Beatrice Goodine has been 

 appointed in her stead. 



Losses During the Year. 



The Station has had three rather severe losses during the 

 year. The most important one was the loss of poultry records 

 up to 191 7 through the burning of the old group of Johns Hop- 

 kins University buildings at Baltimore. All the poultry records 

 prior to 1917, after being analyzed for the breeding data, were 

 sent to Baltimore for analysis for many other things which 

 Doctor Pearl, Collaborating Biologist for the Station, hoped to 

 work out from them in the next few months. In this fire Doc- 

 tor Pearl lost all of his papers including the manuscript, a 200 

 page bulletin, for this Station entitled, "The Physiology of Milk 

 Production" which was nearly ready to be placed in the hands 

 of our printers. This book can be replaced in time because the 

 data on which it was founded are still here at Orono. 



In March of 1919, owing to the accumulation of a very 

 heavy snow upon the roof of the barn at Aroostook Farm the 

 roof spread and fell in. It cost $1695.10 to replace the roof and 

 put the barn in the condition in which it was prior to the acci- 



