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Entomology at that institution, succeeding Mr, Walter W. Marshall who has taken 

 up graduate work at the Ohio State University. 



The General Assembly of Connecticut adjourned on Max IS, after appropriating 

 $25,000 for the next two years for suppressing the gj^sy and brown-tail moths. Of 

 this amount S4,000 is immediately available for summer work. Twenty towns are 

 now known to be infested with the gyj)sy moth and 72 with the brown-tail moth. 



August Busck, Bureau of Entomolog}', left Washington earh' in May to spend six 

 months in the Hawaiian Islands in the study of Gelechia gossypiella. Special in- 

 formation regarding the habits of this species are required in connection with the 

 proposed action to prevent the establishment of the species in the United States. 



Professor Henrj^ E. Van Deman, first professor of horticulture in Kansas State 

 University, and first head of the Division of Pomology, United States Department of 

 Agricultiu-e, died at his home m Washington, D. C, April 28. Since 1893 Professor 

 Van Deman has been engaged in work of an editorial and ad^dsorv^ nature. 



According to Science, Dr. RaATnond C. OsbmTi, assistant professor of zoology in 

 Barnard College of Columbia University, has resigned to accept the professorship of 

 biology in the new Coimecticut College for women at New London. It is understood 

 that the college will be ready for work at the beginning of the next college year. 



The following have been elected to the fellowships in entomology at the Univer- 

 sity of lUinois: Alvah Peterson, Knox CoUege; Philip Garman, Kentucky Agricul- 

 tural College. The foUowing have been elected to scholarships; Edwin K. Parker^ 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College; L. B. Ripley, Trinity College, and J. L. Kmg, 

 Ohio State University. 



The field laboratoiy of the Btireau of Entomology in ]\Iame has been discontinued. 

 Mr. F. L. Simanton, formerly- in charge, has been transferred to the laboratory at 

 Benton Harbor, Mich., where he wih tmdertake uivestigations in connection with 

 orchard insecticides and spraying machinery'. He wiU be assisted b^' Mr. H. G. 

 Ingerson. 



Mr. W. M. Davidson, Bureau of Entomology, has retimied to his headquarters, 

 Walnut Creek, Cal., where he will continue his investigations in connection with the 

 grape Phylloxera. During his stay in T\"ashington the report on the biologj' of this 

 insect was about completed, and another season's obseiwations wiU complete the 

 subject in a satisfactory^ maimer. 



Mr. Irving R. CraA\'ford has been appointed temporary- field assistant, Bureau of 

 Entomology, and wiU proceed to San Diego, Cal., to coUect parasites of Hemileuca 

 olivicB in northeastern New Mexico. The force engaged upon this investigation \\-ill 

 consist of Mr. D. J. Caffrey, in charge; Messrs. Cra\^^ord and J. R. Sandige, temporary 

 assistants; and a permanent appointee not yet selected. 



F. C. Bishopp, Bureau of Entomology, Box 208, Dallas, Texas, has undertaken the 

 taxonomic study of fleas. He has probably one of the largest collections in the United 

 States at the Dallas laboratoiy but desii'es to obtain additional specimens from all 

 parts of the country. It will assist greatly in his studies if material of this kind is 

 sent directly to him. 



Mr. P. H. Timbeiiake. Bureau of Entomology;, who has been spending the winter 

 at the BroTv-nsviJle, Tex., laboratory, engaged particularly on the hymenopterous 

 parasites of lady beetles, ^\ill retm-n to Salt Lake about the middle of AprQ, and on his 



