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southern Mississippi. This conference was attended by K. L. Cockerham, F. A. 
Wright, Troy Thompson, and F. R. White, of the Bureau of Entomology, and 
various State officials. 
Professor F. H. Lathrop, associate professor of entomology and assistant entomolo¬ 
gist of the Oregon College and Station has been appointed to the Sulphur fellowship 
of the Crop Protection Institute, which has been placed under the supervision of the 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva. Professor Lathrop entered 
upon his duties September 1, 1922. 
Dr. A. L. Quaintance, in company with Professor J. J. Davis and W. P. Flint 
and Mr. A. J. Ackerman, recently made an investigation of the San Jose scale situa¬ 
tion in orchards in southern Indiana and Illinois. The scale was found to be very 
abundant and destructive in some orchards and growers are thoroughly alive to the 
necessity of energetic remedial measures if the orchards are to be saved. 
Mr. E. R. Buckell who was recently appointed as an Assistant Entomologist, 
Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, reported for duty on 
November 27th, coming direct to Ottawa from British Columbia. He is now en¬ 
gaged in preparing a report on the influences of grasshoppers on the range. He 
reports that the most serious outbreak of grasshoppers in the history of the Province 
occurred during the past year. 
Very excellent collections of insects have recently been received from the Rev. 
W. W. Perrett, Labrador; Mr. C. H. Crickmay from the Fort Norman district; 
and from Mr. J. Russell, of the Topographical Surveys Branch, Department of the 
Interior, Ottawa, the latter from the Great Slave Lake region. All of these collections 
contain material which is new to the Canadian National Collection, and will prove 
most valuable to the student of the arctic fauna. 
Mr. C. H. Curran has been appointed Assistant Entomologist, Entomological 
Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, and attached to the Division of 
Systematic Entomology. He reported for duty in Ottawa on September 28th. 
Mr. Curran is a specialist in the Diptera, and has been working on Asilidae, Bibioni- 
dae and Stratiomyidae. Officers in charge of Canadian laboratories are urgently 
requested to send in as soon as possible any material they may have in any of the 
above families. 
The European corn borer scouting work was completed in southern Ontario on 
September 23d. During the season 165 townships were scouted, of which 45 were 
found infested and later quarantined. The corn borer has spread over Essex, 
Kent, Lambton and part of Huron Counties, as well as along the Lake Ontario shore 
as far east as Brighton. Seven evasions of the quarantine were discovered by In¬ 
spector Ryan, six of these were prosecuted and five convictions secured. 
Mr. James Zetelc, in charge of the field station of the Bureau of Entomology at 
Ancon, Canal Zone, reports that F. X. Williams, an entomologist of the Hawaiian 
Sugar Planters’ Experiment Station, spent a week at the field station. He left for 
Ecuador, where he hopes to find the parasites of the sugar-cane wireworm. Should 
he fail there, he intends to return to the Canal Zone and go to the interior of Panama, 
where favorable facilities for his work have been procured. 
