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Dr. F. C. Craighead, accompanied by Dr. J. W. Bailey and R. C. Balch, recently 
appointed as temporary investigator of insect pests, left Ottawa on May 31st for a 
ten day study at the balsam sample plots at Long Lake, Que. 
Dr. J. G. Needham, head of the Department of Entomology, Cornell University, 
was at the Kansas State Agricultural College July 5th and 6th, at which time he gave 
three addresses to the students and faculty of the summer school. 
According to Science , Dr. William Morton Wheeler and other members of the 
Williams Galapagos Expedition arrived in New York the last week in May after a 
ten-week cruise among the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador. 
The scouting to determine the distribution of the apple sucker started in Nova 
Scotia on June 5th. Prof. W. H. Brittain is in immediate charge of the work and 
will be assisted by Messrs. George Makinson, and Mr. L. A. Coite. 
Messrs. Luther Brown and J. H. Pressley of the Georgia State Board of Entomology 
are assisting with control experiments of peach insects that are being conducted at 
Fort Valley, Georgia, by the Bureau of Entomology in cooperation with the State 
Board. 
Mr. C. H. Hadley, Jr., of the Bureau of Entomology, and in charge of the Japanese 
beetle work at Riverton, N. J., has been appointed Director of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., and has already begun his 
work there. 
Mr. A. C. Morgan, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of the Tobacco Insect Labora¬ 
tory at Clarksville, Tenn., addressed gatherings of Burley tobacco growers in Gallatin, 
Columbia, and Shelbyville, Tenn., May 31 to June 2, his subject being the control of 
tobacco insects. 
A report has been received from the north shore of Gaspe Peninsula that ad¬ 
ditional injury by Dendroctonus piceaperda has been discovered in several important 
stands of spruce. It is expected that this infestation will be investigated by Cana¬ 
dian officers in the near future. 
Prof. A. E. Stene, State Entomologist and Director of extension work for Rhode 
Island, attended the Tri-State Conference of extension workers at Amherst, Mass., 
June 27-29, and the field meeting of the Connecticut Vegetable Growers' Association 
at New Haven on July 7. 
Mr. C. M. Smith, detailed from the Bureau of Chemistry to investigate the 
chemical and physical properties of calcium arsenate and the influence of various 
factors in the application of this insecticide to the cotton plant, has started on field 
work for the season at Tallulah, La. 
Prof. Dwight M. DeLong of the Ohio State University has been raised from the 
rank of Assistant Professor to Professor of Entomology, and will have charge of the 
teaching work in Economic Entomology at that institution. 
According to Science , Mr. E. M. Ehrhorn, Entomologist, Board of Commissioners 
of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, H. I., has been appointed by the National 
Research Council as one of the American Delegates to the Second Pan Pacific Scien¬ 
tific Congress to be held at Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, from August 13 to 
September 3. 
Mr. C. H. Popenoe, Bureau of Entomology, Entomologist in Truck-Crop Insect 
Investigations, has been authorized to devote his entire time to fundamental re- 
