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Insects, U. S. National Museum, and brought with him a number of insects for identi¬ 
fication by the specialists. 
Mr. William Schaus of the U. S. National Afuseum, went to Pittsburgh toward the 
end of September to consult with Dr. Holland, examine types in the Carnegie Mu¬ 
seum, and return material which had been sent him for study. Mr. Schaus has 
recently completed a paper on certain African Lepidoptera. 
The SugarCane Insect Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at New Orleans, 
La., was moved September 29 to rooms 6 and 7, Wilson Building, 8,200 Oak Street, 
New Orleans. The new location is one block above Carrolton Avenue and can be 
reached by St. Charles and Tulane Belt cars. 
At the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, the following 
resignations have been announced: Mr. G. S. Walley, Seasonal insect pest investi¬ 
gator and Fred P. Ide, seasonal laboratory assistant, to attend the University of 
Toronto: Misses Forward and M. Bonell, the former to continue her studies at the 
University of Toronto. 
Air. D. J. Caffrey, in charge of the corn borer investigational work of the Bureau of 
Entomology made a tour of inspection throughout the infested area during the latter 
part of August, spending several weeks visiting and inspecting the various labora¬ 
tories and the more recently infested sections of the Lake district. 
Mr. Fred E. Brooks in charge of the French Creek, W. Va., laboratory of the 
Bureau of Entomology, discussed the more important insects attacking nuts and nut 
trees in the northern states before a meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Asso¬ 
ciation, held at the Botanical Garden, New York City, September 3-5. 
Transfers in the Bureau of Entomology have been announced as follows: T. C. 
Barber, from sugar cane insects to cotton hopper, Brownsville, Tex.; S. C. Brummitt, 
from Silver Hill to Grand Bay, Ala., sweet potato weevil eradication; C. H. Popenoe, 
from Silver Spring, Md., to Washington, D. C.; J. C. Shiver, Alelrose Highlands, 
Mass., to Columbia, S. C. 
The following appointments to the Bureau of Entomology have been made re¬ 
cently: Leslie W. Orr, temporary field assistant, St. Paul, Minn.; Curtis Benton, 
stored product insect investigations, Fresno, Calif.; Wallace Coleman, Junior ento¬ 
mologist, bean beetle work, Birmingham, Ala.; Walter Baldwin, Riverside, Calif.; 
L. P. O’Dowd and Daniel D. Ewing, Jr., temporarily, during October, November and 
December, La. 
Mr. William Middleton of the Bureau of Entomology recently returned from New 
York where he met the Fabre Liner Providence , on which was a shipment of para¬ 
sitized elm leaf-beetles from Dr. W. R. Thompson in France. An attempt is to be 
made to establish the dipterous parasite, Erynnia nitida R. D., of the elm leaf- 
beetle in this county. 
Dr. H. C. Fall, the well-known Coleopterist of Tyngsboro, Mass., visited Ottawa 
in early August on his return from an Alaskan trip and spent a day studying the 
Coleoptera in the National Collection. He expressed himself as much impressed by 
the excellent showing of the collection and promised to help in any way possible to 
add to its completeness. 
Mr. Leonard S. McLaine, accompanied by Mrs. McLaine, returned to Ottawa 
from their trip to England on Saturday, August 2. While in England, Mr. McLaine 
