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Dr. F. C. Bishopp, in charge of the Dallas, Texas, Laboratory of the Bureau of 
Entomology, visited Washington on official business, late in June. On July 1 he left 
for Dallas, but was obliged to leave the train at Columbus, Ohio, and upon the 
advice of a physician underwent an operation for appendicitis at that place. He has 
sufficiently recovered to return to Dallas and resume his duties. 
On March 1, 1923, Mr. J. C. Hamlin was promoted by the Australian Common¬ 
wealth Prickly-Pear Board to control the scientific investigations of that body. 
On June 23rd, Mr. Hamlin landed at Vancouver enroute to Uvalde, Texas, where he 
will carry out special work for his Board during the next few months. During Mr. 
Hamlin’s absence from Australia, Mr. W. B. Alexander is Acting Officer-in-Charge 
of the Board’s scientific work. 
According to the Official Record , arrangements have been completed by which 
Alexander Znamensky, a Russian entomologist, will be employed by the Bureau 
of Entomology for a year to conduct investigations in southern Russia to deter¬ 
mine whether parasites likely to be useful against the Japanese beetle can be 
found there and shipped to the infested areas in New Jersey. Species of beetles 
closely related to the Japanese beetle are known to occur in southern Russia. 
Mr. Znamensky will be located at Poltava or Stavropol. 
Messrs. C. P. Clausen and J. L. King, who have been in Japan seeking 
parasites of the Japanese beetle, have been heard from since the earthquake. 
They were away from Yokohama, and are safe. Dr. D. T. Fullaway was also in 
Japan for a short time, but resigned and returned to Honolulu before the earth¬ 
quake. Dr. J. F. Illingworth is aJso in Japan, and has not been heard from, but 
it is assumed that he was away from the scene of the earthquake on a collecting 
trip. 
Transfers in the Bureau of Entomology have been announced as follows: Dr. A. D. 
Hopkins, formerly in charge of Forest Insect Investigations, is now to devote all of 
his time to research in connection with bioclimatics; on July 1, Mr. S. A. Rohwer 
was transferred from Forest Insect Investigations to the miscellaneous fund for duty 
in the U. S. National Museum; Perez Simmons and George W. Ellington from 
Washington, D. C., to Sligo, Md. 
Professor J. G. Sanders, formerly Director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant 
Industry, who refused to submit to heavy reductions in funds for quarantine work 
on Japanese beetle, potato-wart, European Corn Borer, etc., by a new Secretary of 
Agriculture wholly unfamiliar with the work, has left the state department and be¬ 
come Manager of the Spray Oil Department of the Sun Oil Company of Philadelphia, 
manufacturers of their new self-emulsifying spray oil. 
According to Science , fetes began on August 6 at Millau (Aveyron) in honor of 
Fabre, the famous French entomologist. A monument, the work of the sculptor 
Malet, representing Fabre, a magnifying glass in his hand, examining an insect, was 
unveiled. It was actually at St. Leons that Fabre was born, but St. Leons is a little 
village of a few hundred inhabitants, and it was thought desirable to erect the statue 
in the neighboring town of Millau. Fabre is chiefly associated with Serignan, near 
Orange, for it was here in his garden that he pursued his entomological studies. 
