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crown rust of oats. Amendment No. 21, passed June 4, 1923, a domestic regulation 
amended by adding European Buckthorn to the list of plants prohibited entry into 
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta from the other provinces of Canada. 
Dr. J. M. Swaine, Associate Dominion Entomologist, left Ottawa on April 24 for a 
ten days’ trip to Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, for the purpose of 
comparing specimens of the genus Leptura with types located in the various museums 
in the cities mentioned. This work is preparatory to a revision of the genus which 
Dr. Swaine is undertaking in cooperation with Mr. Hopping. Dr. Swaine arrived in 
Washington during the first part of May. Dr. Hopkins showed Dr. Swaine the 
Forest Insect collections, particularly the Scolytidae. Dr. Swaine also visited the 
Eastern Field Station at East Falls Church, Va. On May 2 Dr. Swaine with Dr. 
Snyder visited Ashland, near Richmond, Va., where control operations were being 
conducted against the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm. Termites 
or white ants were found to constitute, as usual, one of the principal factors in 
rapidly rendering standing beetle-killed timber unmerchantable. 
The Louisiana Entomological Society was organized with 26 members three years 
ago, largely through the efforts of Mr. Ed. Foster of New Orleans who has served as 
President for the past three years. While no special effort has been made to secure 
new members, the membership has grown to 47, including one honorary member, 
Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture. Meetings are held five times a year, four being held in New Orleans and one 
in Baton Rouge. The Society was organized by professional entomologists of the 
State, for the purpose of advancing knowledge of insects and the Society always 
welcomes, either as members or visitors at meetings, those who are interested in 
insects. With this in mind it has been the policy to arrange programs, consisting of 
short talks, moving pictures, and insect exhibits, that will appeal to all those in¬ 
terested in insect life. Officers for the present year are:—President, T. H. Jones, 
Entomologist of the Experiment Station, Louisiana State University; Vice-President, 
Dr. H. T. Mead, Professor of Zoology, Tulane University; Secretary-Treasurer, 
Ed. Foster, New Orleans; members of Executive Committee, E. R. Barber, Barber 
Entomological Laboratories, New Orleans, James M. McArthur, New Orleans, and 
W. G. Bradley, Assistant Entomologist, Experiment Station, Louisiana State Uni¬ 
versity; Publicity Secretary, E. R. Barber. 
Prof. James G. Sanders severed his connection on July 1 with the Pennsylvania 
Department of Agriculture, where since 1917 he has been Director of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry. He came to Pennsylvania from the University of Wisconsin at the 
request of the Agricultural Commission to organize the nursery inspection service, 
and to establish a Bureau of Economic Zoology (later becoming the Bureau of Plant 
Industry), which should provide a means for controlling insect and plant disease 
outbreaks, and in addition be a valuable factor in the economic field of entomology 
and plant pathology in the state. Since that time the Bureau has been built up in 
various directions to include such activities as: the building of a fine insect collection, 
the establishment of a state herbarium and a plant disease collection, the organi¬ 
zation of seed inspection, apiary inspection, nursery inspection, and potato seed 
certification, and the equipment of five field laboratories for research into the control 
of insects and diseases. His well known energy and ability have been important 
factors in dealing with two of the most outstanding national quarantine problems of 
