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search work in insect behavior and chemical control, and will establish headquarters 
at the laboratory at Sligo, Md., where investigations of fruit insects and truck-crop 
insects are being conducted. 
At the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. New Haven, Mr. R. C. 
Botsford is now in charge of the mosquito work in place of Samuel T. Sealy, who re¬ 
signed April 1. Messrs. J. Leslie Rogers and T. J. Cronin are employed temporarily 
in the Entomological Department to assist in the field experiments and in nursery 
inspection. 
Mr. L. L. Huber is in charge of the laboratory for the investigation of the European 
Corn Borer at Geneva, O. Plantings of varieties of early corn to test maturing 
qualities and comparative immunity from attack are now being made. Life-history 
cages will be started as soon as material can be collected for this purpose. 
On April 30, Dr. F. C. Craighead of the Canadian Entomological Branch left for 
Fort Francis, Ont., to meet Dr. S. A. Graham of the University of Minnesota, and 
visit the area attacked by the spruce- budworm. It is expected that a cooperative 
study of the outbreak in western Ontario and northern Minnesota will be arranged. 
For the purpose of cutting down expenses, some of the work of the Bureau of 
Biological Survey has been curtailed and Mr. Henry L. Viereck has been obliged to 
seek a position elsewhere. At present he is employed temporarily in systematic 
work with Hymenoptera at the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of 
Agriculture, Ottawa, Can. 
Recent appointments in the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of 
Agriculture, have been announced as follows:—T. Armstrong, Assistant Junior 
Entomologist for the Montreal district, vegetable crop insects: N. J. Atkinson, 
temporary entomologist, Saskatoon Laboratory: G. A. Ficht, temporary junior 
entomologist, Port Stanley Laboratory: R. Ogburn, seasonal assistant, systematic 
entomology to collect insects, particularly Ephemeridae and Odonata around Ottawa. 
Mr. C. R. Neiswander has been appointed to assist Mr. Huber in the corn borer 
investigations, of the Ohio Station. Mr. Neiswander has his master’s degree from 
Ohio State University. He commenced work at the Geneva Laboratory May 30. 
Messrs. Huber and Neiswander came to Wooster June 6 to get. further equipment for 
the Geneva laboratory. 
Air. W. H. White, Bureau of Entomology, has just returned from Seaford and other 
points in Delaware, where, in company with C. C. Woodbury of the National Canners 
Association, he made general observations tending toward a better knowledge of the 
practical control of the pea aphis on cannery peas with nicotine dusts, applied by 
high-power apparatus. 
Mr. J. E. Dudley, Jr., Bureau of Entomology, in charge of the investigation of the 
pea aphis in its attacks on cannery peas, has been authorized to assume temporary 
headquarters at Columbus, Wis., where he will undertake cooperative control ex¬ 
periments and studies throughout the pea-growing season, in cooperation with 
State Entomologists and the Columbus Canning Co. 
Alessrs. W. D. Edmonston and George Hofer of the Bureau of Entomology are at 
present on the Kaibab National Forest and Grand Canyon National Park, where 
control work is being conducted in cooperation with the Forest Service of the De- 
