JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 17 
350 
On February 0, 7 and 8, Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, 
presided over a conference of Federal and Provincial game officials called by the 
Dominion Parks Branch of the Department of the Interior. This conference was 
attended by representatives of the various provinces interested in the conservation 
of wild life. It was held in the House of Commons at Ottawa. 
According to Science , Messrs. Theodore R. Garner and Harold A. Jaynes of the 
Bureau of Entomology, planned to sail on March 4 from San Francisco for Kobe, 
Japan, to carry on research work in parasitology, with special reference to the Jap¬ 
anese beetle (Popillia japonica). After a year in Japan and Korea, they expect to 
continue for several years the study of allied parasites in China and India. 
Mr. L. S. McLaine returned to Ottawa on January 7th, after spending his holiday 8 
in New York. During his absence he visited the headquarters of the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board in that city and through the courtesy of Mr. H. B. Shaw, in charge of 
the work, went into the system of handling permits, inspections, etc. Mr. McLaine 
also spent a day with the offiicals of the Federal Horticultural Board in Washington, 
D. C. 
Professor Herbert Osborn of the Ohio State University visited the Sugar-Cane 
Insect Laboratory at New Orleans and took part in a conference on the control of the 
sugar-cane moth borer. Others at the conference were W. G. Taggart, director of the 
Sugar Experiment Station, Ed. Foster of the Nursery Inspection Service, W. G. 
Bradley, Entomologist of the Louisiana Stations, and T. E. Holloway and W. E. 
Haley of the Bureau of Entomology. 
Recent visitors to the U. S. National Museum include: Mr. Henry Bird, Rye, 
N. Y.; Dr. M. D. Leonard, Albany, N. Y.: Dr. S. J. Hunter, Lawrence, Kan.; 
Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Can.; Mr. A. J. Mutchler, 
American Museum of Natural History, New York City; Mr. M. C. Van Duzee, 
Buffalo, N. Y.; Mr. A. E. Miller, Wooster, Ohio, Mr. R. E. Tarbett, Texas; and 
Dr. Andrew Balfour, formerly Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratory, 
Khartum. 
In the recent earthquake and fire in Japan, Dr. Inokichi Kuwana, the Director of 
the Imperial Plant Quarantine Station at Yokohama and the best known of the 
Japanese Economic Entomologists, lost his entire library and collection, together 
with the complete edition of a work upon Entomology which had just been pub¬ 
lished. The Doctor is, therefore, in great need of economic literature. Any such 
works which the economic entomological workers in this country could send him 
would in consequence be most welcome. 
The following men of the division of cereal and forage insect investigations, Bureau 
of Entomology, are taking graduate work: W. H. Larritner at Ohio State University, 
G. W. Barber at Harvard University, H. L. Sweetman at Iowa State University 
E. J. Udine at Montana State College. The following are planning to take work: 
W. J. Phillips at the University of Virginia, D. W. Jones and K. W. Babcock at 
Harvard University, F. W. Poos at Ohio State University, L. H. Patch at Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College, and C. M. Packard at the University of California. 
Entomologists of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, 
and Wisconsin, planned to meet in Columbus, March 6 and 7. The association 
