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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



Mr. Edward Riley King of Creola, Ohio, a former deputy state inspector of apia- 

 ries and secretary of the Ohio Beekeepers' Association, has been appointed a member 

 of the teaching staff of the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, where he 

 will conduct the new courses in apiculture. 



Mr. F. B. Paddock has been appointed entomologist in charge at the Texas Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station and State Entomologist to succeed Mr. Wilmon Newell 

 who has gone to Florida as State Plant Commissioner. By virtue of law the state 

 entomologist is in charge of the foul brood eradication work. 



At the New Hampshire College, Mr. W. A. Osgood, class of 1915, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant to Professor W. C. O'Kane and wiU be engaged in state work. He 

 began his duties September 1. Mr. Raymond Bean, class of 1915, has been appointed 

 assistant to Professor C. F. Jackson in the department of zoology. 



In connection with the wintering investigations at the apiary of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, tests are now being made of the thermal conductivity of various double- 

 walled hives and of the coefficient of transmission of heat of the various parts of the 

 hive to determine the best methods for constructing such Jiives. 



Mr. David L. Crawford, formerly entomologist and horticulturist for the Mexico 

 Gulf Coast Citrus Association, Tampico, Mex., has submitted for pubhcation, in the 

 Department of Agriculture, a manuscript on the Mexican orange fly, Anastrepha 

 ludens Loew. 



The Bureau of Entomology has received from Mr. C. F. Stahl, Spreckels, Cal., 

 a sample of walnuts badly infested by the Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia 

 keuhniella. These were obtained in October of the present year. It also occurs in 

 peanuts in the East. 



Mr. H. B. Scammell, Bureau of Entomology, will spend the winter at his field 

 station. Brown Mills, N. J., and wiU give special attention to questions connected 

 with the hibernation of cranberry insects. Mr. R. J. Fiske will also spend the 

 winter at his field headquarters, Roswell, N. Mex. 



Mr. T. C. Barber, Bureau of Entomology, delivered a number of addresses on 

 the boll weevil in Georgia during October. This work was a part of the plan of 

 the Georgia State Board of Entomology to give special instructions to the planters 

 in the districts which have recently become invaded by the boll weevil. 



Mr. H. A. Morgan, director of the Tennessee Experiment Station, recently visited 

 Louisiana, in company with Dr. W. D. Hunter of the Bureau of Entomology, for 

 the purpose of making suggestions regarding the conduct of the boll-weevil work, 

 and the work on malaria mosquitoes. 



At the Kansas College and Station, Dr. Paul S. Welch, who has been engaged in 

 the investigation of staple crop insects for the Station, is now giving his entire time 

 to college work as assistant professor of entomology. Mr. W. P. Hayes has been 

 added to the station staff as assistant in entomology, and will investigate the insects 

 attacking staple crops. 



Mr. Frank N. Wallace has been appointed State Entomologist of Indiana to suc- 

 ceed Charles H. Baldwin. Mr. Wallace was Chief Deputy under Benjamin W. Doug- 

 lass, who was State Entomologist of Indiana from 1907 to 1911. During the past 

 four years Mr. Wallace has been engaged in horticultural consultation work and has 

 been caUed to orchards in many parts of the country. 



