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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



Mr. F. M. Wadley, temporary field assistant, Bureau of Entomology, during the 

 summer, has returned to his duties as student at the State Agricultural College, 

 Manhattan, Kansas. 



Mr. H. M. Russell, Bm-eau of Entomology, has been granted indefinite leave of 

 absence and expects to engage in farming in the vicinity of Phoenix, Ariz., where 

 he was formerly stationed as entomological assistant. 



Dr. Jas. A. Nelson, Bureau of Entomology, has completed his work on the devel- 

 opment of the honeybee in the egg, on which investigation he has been engaged for 

 some time. The paper will be pubHshed outside the Bureau. 



Mr. Clarence R. Cleveland, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, class 

 of 1912, and assistant at Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, has been 

 appointed assistant in economic entomology at the Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Durham, N. H., in place of C. H. Hadley, Jr., resigned. 



]Mr. J. W. Bailey, Bureau of Entomology, who has been engaged for a large part 

 of the season in investigations of the onion thrips and other insects in southern Texas, 

 has returned to the Mississippi Agricultural College to resume his studies. 



Mr. Thomas H. Jones has resigned his position at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, and 

 is stationed now at Baton Rouge, La., for the study of insects injurious to truck 

 crops and stored products in Louisiana, in cooperation with Mr. E. S. Tucker, State 

 Entomologist. 



Mr. H. B. Scammell, of the Bureau of Entomolog}', will spend the winter at his 

 headquarters, Pemberton, N. J., where he will make observations in connection with 

 investigations of cranberry insects, giving special attention to questions connected 

 with flooding of cranberry bogs, hibernation of cranberry insects, etc. 



AV. D. Pierce, Bureau of Entomology, investigated the dispersion of the boll 

 weevil in the eastern part of the cotton belt early in October, and later began work- 

 ing along the same line west of the Mississippi River. The work in the east is being 

 conducted by F. L. McDonough. 



Mr. E. W. Rust, a graduate of Stanford University and for a period an assistant 

 of Mr. Townsend's in Peru, has joined the inspection service of the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board, and will assist Mr. Sasscer and Mr. Sanford, the latter with the 

 Bureau of Entomology, in this work. 



H. A. Morgan, Dean of Agriculture in the LTniversity of Tennessee, made a trip 

 to Louisiana during October at the request of the Bureau of Entomology. He visited 

 the laboratories of Mound, Tallulah, and New Orleans. W. D. Hunter accompanied 

 Professor Morgan on this trip and also visited the laboratories at Dallas and Vic- 

 toria, Tex. 



Professor E. Dwight Sanderson, Director of the Station and Dean of the CoUege 

 of Agriculture, West Vu'ginia University, Morgantown, W. Va., has resigned to 

 take effect September 1, 1915. Professor Sanderson was formerly entomologist of 

 the New Hampshire Station. It is stated that he will take up graduate studies, in 

 some subject other than entomology, in one of the large universities. 



Mr. R. S. Woglum, Bureau of Entomology, presented at the recent Fruit Growers 

 Convention at Los Angeles a very interesting paper on fruit injui-y during fumiga- 

 tion, showing that such injury is due principally to the hydrocyanic-acid gas enter- 

 ing through abrasion or accidental injury to the fruit rather than to the emanations 

 of sulphuric acid. 



