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sonville. in co-operation with the city and state boards of health. During the two 
weeks of this clinic one hundred and eighty-five patients infested with “Larval 
Migrans” presented themselves for treatment and gave case histories. This mateiial 
is serving as a basis for a thorough epidemiological study of the malady. So far the 
causative organism has not been isolated and indications ai e that it is not the larva of 
an insect as was at first supposed. In addition to these studies, Mr. Dove is carrying 
on biological work in Florida with the Tabanidae. 
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The Connecticut Anti-Mosquito Association held an institute at the Agricultural 
Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn., on the afternoon of November 7. Among 
the speakers were Professor W. L. Slate, Jr., Director of the Station, Dr. W. E. Brit¬ 
ton, State Entomologist, Air. R. C. Botsford, Deputy in Charge of Alosquito Elimi¬ 
nation, Dr. Stanley H. Osborn, Health Commissioner, Mr. George J. Bassett, Presi¬ 
dent, New Haven Chamber of Commerce, and Messrs. H. H. Chapman, W. O. Filley 
and A. V. Parker, representing the State Park Commission. Mr. Alalcolm R. Pitt, 
President, presided, and about 30 were present. A definite program for anti- mosquito 
work in the State was considered and will probably be placed before the next session 
of the legislature. 
Pacific Slope Notes 
Air. Kenneth A. Salman has recently accepted a position as entomologist for the 
government of San Salvador. His work will be under the direction of Prof. Frederic 
W. Taylor who is Director General de Agricultura for that government. 
According to Science , Air. E. P. Van Duzee, curator of entomology, California 
Academy of Sciences, has returned from southern Arizona, where he and his assistant, 
Air. J. O. Martin, spent six weeks collecting Hemiptera and other insects. He brought 
back about 15,000 specimens to enrich the Academy collections. 
Mr. M. A. Yothers of the Bureau of Entomology, with headquarters at Yakima, 
Wash., made two official trips to the Puget Sound country during the summer to in¬ 
vestigate the Narcissus bulb flies, Merodon equestris Fab., and Eumerus strigatus 
Fallen. It was found that these two flies are very abundant and injurious to Nar¬ 
cissus bulbs throughout the entire Sound region. Mr. Yothers also made a trip to 
South Idaho during August at the request of the Idaho State Department of Horti¬ 
culture, to investigate the unprecedented injury to prunes by tree crickets, Oecamhus 
spp., which were eating the prunes to such an extent that they caused hundreds of 
thousands of dollars loss to the prune growers. 
At the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Conference held at Honolulu, H. I., July 31 
to August 14, the following Entomologists were present: Doctors L. O. Howard and 
C. L. Marlatt, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C.; Dr. T. D. A. Cocker¬ 
ell, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.; Dr. Royal N. Chapman University of 
Minnesota St. Paul, Minn.; Dr. Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University, Columbus, 
Ohio; Dr. Wm. B. Herrns, University of California, Berkeley Calif.; Roy R. Reppert, 
Extension Entomologist, Texas. 
The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Northwestern Association of Horticulturists, 
Entomologists, and Plant Pathologists, was held at Penticton, B. C., August 26-29, 
1924. There was a varied program of general horticultural interest, and the ento¬ 
mological section of it included discussions of oil sprays, grasshoppers, wireworms, 
