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Mr. E. H. Siegler of the Bureau of Entomology attended the annual meeting of 
the Maryland Horticultural Society at Frederick, Md., January 9-11. 
According to Science, Dr. G. H. Carpenter, Professor of Zoology at Royal College 
of Science, Dublin, has been appointed Keeper of the Manchester Museum. 
The following appointments in the Bureau of Entomology are announced: 
W. W. Porter and J. A. McLemore, Mississippi and Torbert Slack, Louisiana, 
sweet potato weevil eradication. 
Miss M. E. Bellows and Miss Jean Bostock have recently been appointed labora¬ 
tory assistants in the Division of Systematic Entomology, Entomological Branch, 
Canadian Department of Agriculture. 
According to Experiment Station Record, Mr. J. S. Yankey, inspector in the De¬ 
partment of Entomology and Botany, Kentucky Station, has been succeeded by 
Mr. Max Braithwait. 
Miss Kathleen Doering, A.B., University of Kansas, has been elected to the 
position of Assistant Instructor in Entomology and Scientific Illustrator in that 
Institution. 
Dr. Herbert Spencer, Assistant Professor of Entomolgy and Zoology, North 
Carolina College, has been appointed Associate Entomologist in Charge of Investi¬ 
gations of Insects Affecting Truck Crops. 
Mr. P. A. Readio, Instructor of Entomology in the University of Kansas, has 
recently been placed in charge of the Experimental Laboratory and Insectary of that 
Institution. 
Mr. A. J. Ackerman of the Bureau of Entomology was slated to attend the meet¬ 
ing of the Ohio State Horticultural Society, Columbus, Ohio, January 30 to Febru¬ 
ary 1. 
Dr. W. M. Wheeler gave the address of the retiring President at the dinner of the 
American Naturalists at the Boston meeting. His subject was “The Dry Rot of 
Academic Biology.” 
Mr. A. B. Baird returned to Fredericton, N. B., on February 9 after spending 
four weeks rearranging certain subfamilies of parasitic Hymenoptera in the Canadian 
National Collection of Insects at Ottawa. 
The following transfers in the Bureau of Entomology have been announced 
recently: W. D. Whitcomb, Yakima, Wash., to New Orleans, La.; C. A. Weigel, 
temporarily, Washington, D. C., to New Orleans, La. 
Dr. H. B. Hungerford, Professor of Entomology in the University of Kansas, will 
be on the instructional staff for research and investigation at the Univeristy of 
Michigan Biological Station next summer. 
Announcement has been made of the following resignations in the Bureau of 
Entomology: H. B. Lancaster, junior entomologist, Mexican bean beetle, Alabama; 
F. B. White, plant quarantine inspector, sweet potato weevil, Mississippi. 
Professors J. Chester Bradley, O. A. Johannsen and Robert Matheson will be 
instructors in entomology at the Cornell University Summer School of Biology at 
Ithaca, N. Y., July 7 to August 17, 1923. 
Mr. T. E. Holloway of the Bureau of Entomology will travel through Mexico 
