April, '15] 



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Dr. W. A. Lamborn, late entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, Southern 

 Nigeria, has been appointed travelling entomologist in East Africa, under the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomolog}', in place of ]\Ir. S. A. Xeave, and is engaged on Glossina work 

 in Xyasaland. 



Mr. R. S. Leiby, for tw© and one-haK years assistant in insect morphology at Cor- 

 nell Universit}', is now assistant state entomologist of North Carohna, with head- 

 quarters at Raleigh, filhng the position made vacant b}^ the resignation of C. L. 

 Metcalf, who is now at the Ohio State Universitj'. 



During January-, Air. Charles H. Popenoe, entomological assistant, Bureau of 

 Entomology, was engaged at Laredo, Texas, in what is recognized as the principal 

 onion-growing region of the South, in cooperation with Mr. M. M. High, in testing 

 a traction sprayer designed especially for onion fields. 



Mr. Fred A. Johnston, entomological assistant. Bureau of Entomology, will close 

 the station representing this branch of the Bm^eau at Riverhead, Long Island, N. Y., 

 and will establish a new station at Hart, Oceana County, j\lich. One of the most im- 

 portant economic projects will be the control of the pea aphis. 



Sm^geon-General WiUiam C. Gorgas was awarded the Louis Livingston Seaman 

 medal for progi-ess and achievement in the promotion of hygiene and the mitigation 

 of occupational disease, at the annual exercises of the American IVluseum of Safety 

 held in New York on February 10. Congress, before adjom-nment, promoted him 

 to the rank of major-general in the medical department. 



A general conference was held on December 18, at Washington, to consider the 

 danger of the introduction of the pink boUworm in the United States. The consensus 

 of opinion expressed was that the present situation demands a quarantine against all 

 foreign hnt, with a provision for the importation of such cotton only in states outside 

 of the cotton belt. It was also proposed that such southern miUs as require foreign 

 cottons be allowed to obtain it from stocks which have been in storage in northern 

 locahties for at least a year's time. 



The Entomological Society of America elected, at the Philadelphia meeting, officers 

 as follows: President, Vernon L. KeUogg, Leland Standford Junior University; first 

 vice-president, J. S. Hine,Ohio State L'niversity; second vice-president, J. M. Aldrich, 

 L'nited States Bureau of Entomology"; secretary-treasurer, Alex. D. MacGilhvray, 

 L'niversity of Ilhnois; temporary secretary for summer meeting, E. C. Van Dyke, 

 L^niversity of Cahfomia; additional members of the Executive Committee, C. T. 

 Brues, Harvard University; W. A. Riley, Cornell University; T. D. A. CockereU, 

 University of Colorado; J. A. G. Rehn, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; 

 A. L. Alelander, Washington Agricultural College. 



The reports on experimentation and demonstration control work against the Den- 

 drodonus beetles, carried on in the Yosemite National Park, Bureau of Entomology, 

 in cooperation with the Department of the Interior, with Entomological Ranger J. J. 

 Sulhvan as instructor on practical details, and on private lands of the McCloud River 

 Lumber Company, north of Mt. Shasta, in California, with Entomological Ranger J, 

 D. Riggs as instructor, show the following results: In the Yosemite Valley and vi- 

 cinity, at an elevation of from 4,000 to 7,500 feet, 302 Dendroctonus infested trees 

 were treated, consisting of yellow, Jeffrey, and sugar pine. The trees ranged in di- 



