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during the fiscal year of 1923, for the purpose of investigating sugar-cane insects and 
the distribution of the cotton boll weevil. 
Professor C. E. Sanborn, Professor of Entomology at the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College of Oklahoma, is on Sabbatical leave and now taking work at the 
University of Kansas as a candidate for an advanced degree. 
Mr. O. I. Snapp of the Bureau of Entomology addressed the meeting of the Ten¬ 
nessee State Horticultural Society, January 30, and attended a meeting of the Science 
Club of the University of Georgia on February 23. 
Mr. C. H. Curran, B. S., University of Toronto, has recently completed his work 
for an advanced degree at the University of Kansas and has accepted an appointment 
on the staff of the Dominion Entomologist of Canada. 
According to Science, Dr. James G. Needham of Cornell University, who is spend¬ 
ing the year at Pomona College, gave an address at Los Angeles on February 10 
before the Sigma Xi Club of Southern California. 
Dr. J. K. Haywood of the Bureau of Chemistry and Chairman of the Federal 
Insecticide and Fungicide Board, is now absenl on a two month’s assignment in 
California, where he will study problems relating to insecticides and foods. 
Mr. C. H. Popenoe of the Bureau of Entomology attended the convention of the 
National Canners Association at Atlantic City, N. J., during the week of January 24, 
and supervised the installation of the exhibit of the Bureau of Entomology. 
Volume XIV of the University of Kansas Science Bulletin is now in press. This 
volume will be devoted entirely to Entomological papers, results of investigations 
of members of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Entomology. 
According to Science Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock has beeen nominated for 
trustee of Cornell University. Mrs. Comstock was nominated for this position in 
1922, and, though losing by a narrow margin, polled a larger vote than any previous 
winner. 
On February 13 at the meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination 
Association, Dr. T. J. Headlee was presented with a gold watch in commemoration 
of his ten years’ service as Secretary of the Association and as State Entomologist 
of New Jersey. 
On February 14, Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, read a 
paper before the tenth annual meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination 
Association at Atlantic City, N. J. On the 13th, he addressed the Japanese Beetle 
Club at Riverton, N. J. 
Prof. H. L. Viereck of the Biological Survey, while in Philadelphia the last week 
of February, compared specimens of Hymenoptera in the Biological Survey collection 
with type specimens in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences with a view 
to ascertaining correct identifications. 
The laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at Wallingford, Conn., has been dis¬ 
continued and Dr. B. A. Porter has been transferred to Vincennes, Ind., where, in 
co-operation with the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, investiga¬ 
tions will be undertaken of the more important fruit insects of southern Indiana. 
C. P. B. Lawson, Professor of Entomology in the University of Kansas, has re¬ 
cently been selected as Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at 
