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Mr. T. J. Naude, graduate student from South Africa at Ohio State University } 
visited the Experiment Stations at Wooster, Ohio, Geneva, N. Y. and the Ento¬ 
mological Department and Experiment Station at Cornell University during August 
to inspect the organization and methods employed in entomological work at these 
stations. 
Dr. Albert Hartzell has been appointed to a National Research Council Fellowship 
under the Crop Protection Institute and will spend the year at Geneva with Prof. 
P. J. Parrott in investigations with sulphur as an insecticide. He received the Ph.D. 
degree at Ohio State University in June. 
Prof, and Mrs. T. D. A. Cockerell of the University of Colorado, who returned 
from Siberia in September were on board the steamship Empress of Australia in 
Yokohama harbor when the earthquake occurred, but they were uninjured. This 
steamship being disabled, they were transferred to the President Jefferson. 
Mr. Morgan Hebard of Philadelphia spent October 19 in the Section of Insects, 
U. S. National Museum, studying specimens in the collection and arranging for 
exchanges of various Orthoptera. Mr. Hebard brought with him many specimens of 
Orthoptera which he had borrowed from the collection for study. 
Mr. N. I. Iskander, assistant entomologist of the Egyptian Department of Agri¬ 
culture, visited the Section of Insects, U. S. National Museum, October 9. Mr. 
Iskander was especially interested in the collection of Coccidae and in the arrange¬ 
ment of the collections, especially in the tray system, and also in the organization 
of the work in the Section of Insects. 
Dr. W. L. Chandler, formerly a member of the entomological department of the 
Michigan Agricultural College and Station, and who is a specialist in parasitology, 
has been transferred to the department of bacteriology in the newly created section 
of veterinary science and bacteriology of the same institution, where he will continue 
work on the parasites of food animals. 
At the Utah College and Station, Dr. I. M. Hawley, head of the department of 
zoology and entomology has been appointed acting dean of arts and sciences, and 
H. J. Pack assistant professor of zoology and entomology in the College and assistant 
entomologist of the Station has been granted a year’s leave of absence for graduate 
study at Cornell University. 
Dr. Waldemar Pospelov, director of the bureau of entomology of the Agricultural 
Scientific Committee of Russia arrived in the United States in September and has 
since visited the Bureau of Entomology at Washington, the entomological depart¬ 
ments of the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, University of Illinois, Urbana, 
Illinois, Cornell, Harvard, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 
New Haven. 
Entomological News records the death of the following European entomologists:—• 
William Evans, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 23, 1922; the Reverend Canon Wil¬ 
liam Weeks Fowler, Coleopterist, at Earley, Reading, England, June 3, 1923; A. L. 
Montandon, Hemipterist, at Jassy, Rumania; M. Paul Mabille, Lepidopterist, at 
Perreux, France, April 26, 1923; Eugene Boullett, Lepidopterist, and Ed. Blanc, 
Coleopterist, both of France, dates not given. 
Dr. Carlos de la Torre y Huerta, of Cuba, recently visited the National Museum 
in Washington, D. C., and while there paid a visit to the Division of Insects to renew 
