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the University of Kansas. Dr. Lawson will devote half of his time to administration 
and half to research and teaching. 
Mr. C. H. Popenoe, entomologist, Truck-crop Insect Investigations, Bureau of 
Entomology, recently attended the convention of the National Canners’ Association 
at Atlantic City, N. J., January 22-26, having charge of the Bureau of Entomology 
exhibit on the European corn borer, Japanese beetle, pea aphis, and other truck crop 
insects. 
At an Institute for Tree Workers at the Agricultural Experiment Station, New 
Haven, Conn., March 1, arranged by the Tree Protection Examining Board of the 
State of Connecticut, illustrated entomological addresses were given as follows: 
Mr. A. F. Burgess, “The Gipsy Moth;” Dr. E. P. Felt, “Some Insects Attacking 
Shade Trees.” 
Dr. E. D. Ball left Washington February 4 for Memphis, Tennessee to attend the 
meeting of the Southern Agricultural Workers. Before returning to Washington, 
Dr. Ball was scheduled to give addresses at Manhattan, Kansas, and Ames, Iowa, 
and to visit Lincoln, Nebraska, to confer with the University officials on research 
problems. 
Mr. William Middleton of the Bureau of Entomology returned to Washington on 
January 18 after a short trip to Columbus, Ga., for the purpose of investigating the 
conditions of the sugarberry shade trees of that city, which are infested by scale 
insects, and advising the municipal authorities regarding methods of control. 
Dr. M. D. Leonard of the Bowker Insecticide Company has been appointed 
Associate State Entomologist of New York and will take charge of the office of the 
State Entomologist May 1, an arrangement necessitated by the transfer of Dr. Felt 
to the State Conservation Commission. 
The laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at Medford, Oregon, has been dis¬ 
continued, and M 4 A. Yothers, who has been in charge of this station, has been 
transferred to the bureau’s laboratory at Yakima, Wash., where he will be associated 
with E. J. Newcomer in the continuation of fruit insect investigations of that region. 
At a meeting of the American Agricultural Editors Association, held February 27 
and 28 at the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., the following addresses 
were made by entomologists: “The value of Research,” Dr. E. D. Ball; “Plant 
Quarantine Laws,” Dr. C. L. Marlatt; “Recent Advances in Fruit Insect Control,” 
Mr. E. II. Siegler; “Apiculture,” Dr. E. F. Phillips. 
Mr. J. E. Dudley, Jr., assistant entomologist, Bureau of Entomology, stationed 
at Madison, Wis., recently attended the National Canners Association Convention 
at Atlantic City, N. J., January 22-26, where he presented a paper outlining the plans 
of the department in undertaking work against the pea aphis in Wisconsin and other 
portions of the United States, in co-operation with State Entomologists and repre¬ 
sentative canners. 
Dr. E. D. Ball returned February 24 from a speaking trip in the course of which 
he addressed the New York Farmers’ Club at New York City; on February 21, the 
Japanese Beetle Club at Riverton, N. J., on February 23, the Journal Club of the 
Department of Medical Sociology of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of 
Johns Hopkins University. 
Mr. Wilmon Newell, director of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 
