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Dr. H. H. Knight, curator of insect collections of the University of Minnesota, 
University Farm, St. Paul, Minn., has resigned to accept a similar position at the 
Iowa Agricultural College and Station at Ames, Iowa. 
Messrs. Stewart Lockwood and F. W. Boyd, of the Billings, Mont., laboratory of 
the Bureau of Entomology, attended the conference of the Northwest International 
Committee on Farm Pests, held at Bozeman, Montana, August 27 and 28. 
Dr. J. M. Swaine, Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, 
was admitted to the hospital on August 10 and successfully operated on for appen¬ 
dicitis. He is convalescing most satisfactorily. 
Prof. A. F. Conradi, for many years professor of zoology and entomology at the 
Clemson Agricultural College, entomologist of the South Carolina Experiment 
Station, and State Entomologist, has resigned to enter the field of commercial ento¬ 
mology in South Carolina. 
Messrs. J. S. Houser, L. L. Huber and C. R. Neiswander of the Ohio Station re¬ 
cently accompanied a party of entomologists on an inspection of Canadian corn 
fields. The increase in borer infestation was very pronounced and considerable 
damage is being done. 
At the forty-ninth annual meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
held at Griffin, Ga., August 6, Mr. Oliver I. Snapp of the Bureau of Entomology gave 
an address on the year’s development in the control of peach insects. 
Messrs. Nicolai, Shoemaker and Quersfeldt, of New York, recently spent a week 
doing miscellaneous collecting in the vicinity of Washington and visited the Section 
of Insects, U. S. National Museum, to meet the members of its force and consult with 
the coleopterists. 
According to Science, Dr. Vernon Kellogg has been appointed by the Department 
of State as one of the official representatives of the United States to the third Pan- 
American Congress to be held at Lima, Peru, from December 20 to January 6. 
The entomological laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at Ritzville, Wash., 
in charge of M. C. Lane, has been moved to Toppenish, Wash., a location believed to 
be more advantageous for the co-operative studies on the wire worms injurious to 
potatoes, wheat, and other crops. 
Dr. F. H. Lathrop of the New York (Geneva) Agricultural Experiment Station, 
recently of the field station at Poughkeepsie, has been appointed State Entomologist 
of South Carolina, entomologist of the Station and professor of zoology and ento¬ 
mology in Clemson College, vice A. F. Conradi, resigned. 
A list of corrections and additions to the “Hemiptera of Connecticut,” Bulletin 
No. 34, Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, has been printed. 
Anyone who has received Bulletin 34 may obtain the list by applying to Mr. Geo. S. 
Godard, State Librarian, Hartford, Connecticut. 
Mr. David Dunavan, temporarily in charge of the Toppenish, Wash., truck crop 
laboratorjr of the Bureau of Entomology, attended the meeting of horticulturists, 
pathologists, and entomologists, held at Penticton, B. C., but has now returned to 
the Oregon Agricultural College to complete work for his degree. 
Mr. Fred M. Schott of Brooklyn, N. Y., recently in the service of the State of New 
Jersey, was for a week, while in Washington, a frequent visitor to the Division of 
