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of the Australian Commissioner to the United States. The points visited include 
Monterey, San Luis Potosi, Cuernavaca, San Juan de Teotihuacdn, Mexico City 
and vicinity, Tampico, and Victoria. At least three important cactus insects not 
occurring in the United States were found. 
Prof. Geo. A. Dean of the Bureau of Entomology has just returned from an ex¬ 
tended trip, during which he visited the field stations of Cereal and Forage Insect 
Investigations at Arlington, Mass., Silver Creek, N. Y., Sandusky, Ohio, Charlottes¬ 
ville, Va., LaFayette, Ind., Centralia, Ill., Webster Grove, Mo., Wichita, Kans., 
Salt Lake City, Utah, Billings, Mont., Ritzville, Wash., Forest Grove, Oreg., Sacra¬ 
mento, Calif., Tempe, Ariz., and San Antonio, Texas. He also visited many of the 
departments of entomology of the agricultural colleges and State universities, and 
had conferences with entomologists and with the directors of the experiment stations 
of many of the States. In all of the places visited and at the conferences attended 
he found a deep interest in entomological work and a splendid spirit of willingness 
to enter into cooperative work. 
According to Entomological News, Mr. Edgar L. Dickerson died at Passaic, N. J., 
October 30, 1923. Mr. Dickerson graduated from Rutgers College in 1902, and from 
the time of his graduation until 1911, be served as an assistant in the State Board of 
Agriculture under the late Professor John B. Smith, when he resigned to enter the 
biological department of the Barringer High School, Newark, N. J. In February 
1912, he commenced teaching biology at the Central High School of Newark, where 
he remained until his death, being promoted to head of the department of Biological 
Sciences and Commercial Geography, some four or five years ago. An obituary 
notice with a list of Mr. Dickerson’s entomological papers, by Mr. Harry B. Weiss, 
may be'found in Entomological News for January 1924, Vol. XXXV, page 35. 
Dr. F. C. Craighead, Bureau of Entomology, left Washington November 25 to 
attend a conference of the western field men at Klamath Falls, Oregon. The program 
involves a review of recent control projects and the results obtained, also a discussion 
of epidemics of defoliating insects which are causing extensive losses at several points 
in the west. Forest insect surveys, including estimates of the annual losses caused 
by bark beetles and special investigations on various phases of control, cycles of out¬ 
breaks, etc., will be considered. En route to Klamath Falls, Dr. Craighead planned 
to stop at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minn., to confer 
with Dr. Wm. A. Riley and Dr. S. A. Graham, and with Mr. R. Zon of the Forest 
Service Experiment Station regarding investigations on forest insects in the Lake 
States in cooperation with these institutions. 
“The vStatus of Entomology in Porto Rico,” a paper prepared by Mr. G. N. Wolcott 
for presentation at the meeting of the American Association of Economic Ento¬ 
mologists at Toronto in 1921, but due to his absence, read only by title, has recently 
been published as No. 2, Vol. VI, of the Journal of the Department of Agriculture 
and Labor of Porto Rico. It forms one of a triology of publications attempting to 
summarize the entomology of Porto Rico, the others of the series being “Insectae 
Portoricensis, a Preliminary Annotated List of the Insects of Porto Pico with descrip¬ 
tions of some New Species,” which will appear as No. 1, Vol. VII of the Journal, 
and “Entomologfa Economica de Puerto Rico” (in Spanish), Bulletin No. 33 of the 
Insular Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, P. R. 
