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According to Science, Mr. E. Ballard has resigned his post as lecturer in entomology 
in the University of Bristol on his appointment as entomologist to the Empire Cotton 
Growing Association in Queensland. 
Mr. T. C. Barber, Bureau of Entomology, has returned from a trip into Mexico. 
He reports finding several new parasites of the sugar-cane moth borer, one of which 
seems to be very efficient. 
According to Entomological News, the Honorable N. C. Rothschild, a well-known 
British entomologist, died October 12,1923. His splendid collection of Siphonaptera, 
with an endowment of ten thousand pounds was willed to the British Museum. 
According to Science, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station has 
leased from Vassar College a building which is to be used for special research in 
entomology and plant pathology in the Hudson River Valley. 
Mr. N. E. Winters, in charge of the cooperative boll weevil investigations of this 
Bureau and the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, at Florence, S. C., 
has resigned, effective January 31, 1924, to accept a position in Argentina. 
Mr. O. C. McBride, Instructor of Entomology, University of Missouri, has re¬ 
signed to accept a position of Instructor of Entomology in the University of Minne¬ 
sota where he will devote his time exclusively to research work on insecticides. 
Mr. G. P. Walker of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agri¬ 
culture, delivered a series of entomological lectures at the short courses held during 
the latter part of the year at the newly established Agricultural School at Fredericton. 
According to Science, Mr. Harold Tappin goes in the capacity of Assistant Ento¬ 
mologist with the eighth expedition of the Department of Tropical Research of the 
New York Zoological Society, which left on February 11 for Georgetown, British 
Guiana. 
Mr. J. R. Parker, Associate Entomologist in the Experiment Station at Montana 
State College, returned in February from an absence for study at the University of 
Minnesota, where he has been pursuing work for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 
Dr. J. D. Tothill and family left Fredericton on February 15 for a vacation in 
England. While in London, Dr. Tothill will spend several days examining and re¬ 
describing the Walker types of North American Tachinidae in the British Museum 
Collection. 
The following entomologists visited Washington on February 8 to attend con¬ 
ferences and hearings: W. C. O’Kane, Durham. N. H.; W. E. Britton, New Haven, 
Conn.; T. J. Headlee, New Brunswick, N. J.; H. L. McIntyre, Albany, N. Y.; 
C. H. Hadlejr, Harrisburg, Pa.; E. N. Cory, College Park, Md. 
Professor Neguib Iskander, Assistant Entomologist of the Ministry of Agriculture 
of Egypt, recently visited the Bureau of Entomology and some of its field stations to 
study fumigation methods, especially those used in the control of the insect enemies 
of citrus fruits. 
At the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Crop Protection Institute, 
held at the Chemists Club, New York City, February 14, the following entomologists 
were present: E. D. Ball, W. E. Britton, G. A. Dean. M. D. Leonard W. C. O’Kane. 
P. J. Parrott, and A. Peterson. 
