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of 76 years. He was an authority on the Palearctic Rhopalocera, and his extensive 
travels included portions of North America. He was president of the Entomological 
Society of London in 1893 and 1894 and was elected a corresponding member of the 
American Entomological Society in 1897. 
At the dinner held Friday afternoon at the University Club an address was given 
by Doctor W. L. Burlison, Head of the Agronomy Department, University of Illinois 
on: “What the Entomologist should be doing from the Agronomist standpoint.” 
This was followed by a short symposium on control of field crop insects. 
Mr. H. S. Adair, a graduate of the Mississippi A. & M. College, has been appointed 
field assistant to assist with the plum curculio studies that are being conducted at 
Fort Valley, Georgia, by the Bureau of Entomology. 
On January 30th, Mr. Oliver I. Snapp, of the Bureau of Entomology, with head - 
quarters at Fort Valley, Ga., gave an address at the Annual Meeting of the Tennessee 
Horticultural Society at Nashville, Tenn., on recent developments in peach insects con¬ 
trol. He also spoke on a similar subject at the Annual Meeting of Southern Agricul¬ 
tural Workers in Memphis, Tenn., on February 6th, and at the University of 
Georgia, Athens, Ga., on February 23rd. 
Mr. W. V. Tower, entomologist of the Federal Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Mayaguez, Porto Rico, has been granted leave of absence from his Station duties 
to make a study of methods of combating the tobacco, or cigarette, beetle, which is 
doing considerable damage in the factories and warehouses of the Porto-Rican- 
American Tobacco Co. Extensive fumigation experiments are to be conducted to 
determine the possibility of controlling this pest under the conditions prevailing in 
Porto Rico. 
Mr. C. H. Curran, Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, 
has just returned from a three week’s trip to Washington, New York, Boston and 
Cambridge, where he studied numerous 'types of Diptera in connection with the de¬ 
termination of Canadian material in various families of this order. Mr. Curran re¬ 
ports that as a result of his work a number of new Canadian species can now be de¬ 
scribed and the types deposited in the Canadian National Collection of Insects. 
A conference of Entomologists of the States in the northern part of the Missis¬ 
sippi Valley was held at Urbana, Illinois, March 2 and 3. The following men were 
in attendance:— 
Mr. J. E. Dudley, E. L. Chambers, C. L. Fluke of Wisconsin; J. W. McColloch 
of Kansas; K. C. Sullivan, A. F. Satherwait of Missouri; H. T. Dietz, W. H. Larri- 
mer, J. J. Davis and B. A. Porter of Indiana; T. H. Parks, H. A. Gossard of Ohio; 
J. H. Bigger, C. C. Compton, S. C. Chandler, W. D. Balduf, T. H. Frison, R. D. 
Glasgow, C. L. Metcalf, P. A. Glenn, S. A. Forbes and W. P. Flint of Illinois. 
The following subjects were discussed:—The European Corn Borer; The present 
chinch-bug situation; The Hessian Fly; The recent increase in damage by San Jose 
scale and the place of lubricating oil emulsions in control; What attitude should be 
taken regarding the increase in soybean and cowpea acreage, in view of the threat¬ 
ened invasion by the Mexican Bean Beetle; Garden truck insects; Grasshoppers; 
Clover insects; Peach tree borer control with para-dichlorobenzene; The present 
status of dusting; Shall we recommend spreaders; Recent developments in plant 
disease work and their significance in insect control; New developments in control 
of sorted grain insects; Peach Thrips; Potato leaf hopper and Forest insects. 
