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JOURNAL OF ECONO:\IIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



Dr. A. A. Allen has been appointed assistant professor of ornithology in Cornell 

 University and will give new courses in the economic phases of the subject. 



Mr. Eric S. Cogan of British South Africa is employed as a temporary assistant, 

 Bureau of Entomology, and has been assigned to the Charleston (Mo.) laboratory. 



Mr. C. L. Scott of the Brownsville (Tex.) laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, is 

 investigating the spread of the fall army worm {Laphygfna frugiperda) in Texas and 

 Louisiana. 



Prof. F. L. Washburn, state entomologist of Minnesota, gave an address on "Prob- 

 lems in Nursefy Inspection, " before the American Association of Nurserymen at 

 Detroit, June 23-25. 



Dr. W. D. Hunter visited Boston, Albany, and other points in the northeast, in 

 connection with the work of the Horticultural Board, during the early part of July. 



Dr. Carlos J. Finley of Cuba, who thirty-four years ago claimed that mosquitoes 

 were responsible for the transmission of yellow fever, died August 20, at eighty-two 

 years of age. 



Dr. W. C. Gorgas, surgeon general, United States Army, was scheduled as one of 

 the speakers before the American Public Health Association at Rochester, N. Y., 

 September 7. 



According to Science, Dr. David Starr Jordan has recently been elected a member 

 of the Roj^al Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, in appreciation of his work 

 in zoology. 



The Dominion of Canada has appropriated $20,000 for entomology, and $100,000 

 for the administration and enforcement of the destructive insect and pest act for the 

 fiscal year of 1915-16. 



Dr. T. J. Headlee, state entomologist of New Jersey, and Mr. B. H. Walden, 

 assistant entomologist of Connecticut, were speakers at an anti-mosquito meeting 

 at Sachem's Head, Guilford, Conn., August 14. 



At a recent meeting of the directors of the Florida Citrus Exchange resolutions 

 were adopted heartily indorsing the work against citrous pests, conducted by Mr. 

 W. W. Yothers of the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. Reuben Cox of the Mississippi Agricultural College has been appointed a 

 temporary field assistant of the Bureau of Entomology and will work with Mr. D. L. 

 Van Dine on the investigation of malaria mosquitoes. 



About thirty members of the Baltimore Beekeepers' Club visited the apiary and 

 aboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at Drummond, Md., on Saturday afternoon, 

 July 24. Various demonstrations were arranged for them in the apiary. 



According to Science, Mr. Charles P. Lounsbury, chief entomologist of the South 

 African Union, who has been visiting Australia, was expected to reach San Francisco 

 about September 1, and to spend several months in the United States. 



Dr. A. L. Quaintance, Bureau of Entomology, recently visited field laboratories at 

 Winchester, Va., North East, Pa., and Benton Harbor, Mich., for the purpose of 

 conferring with men in charge of stations regarding work under way and contem- 

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