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counties of West and Middle Tennessee this year. This is brood 23 of the 13-year 
race of the periodical Cicada. 
On February 22, 1924, the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred by 
George Washington University on Philip Luginbill, Entomologist in Charge of the 
Columbia, S. C., laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology. 
Mr. G. F. Moznette, Bureau of Entomology, has nearly completed an extensive 
survey of the fruit culture of Cuba and the Isle of Pines for fruit flies in connection 
with plant quarantine regulations. 
Mr. Arthur Finnamore has been promoted to District Insect Pest Inspector and 
will be stationed at St. John, N. B., as officer in charge of that port of importation 
for nursery stock and plant products. 
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Professors Herbert Osborn of Columbus, Ohio, C. R. Crosby of Cornell University’ 
Ithaca, N. Y., and Dr. W. E. Britton of New Haven, Conn., were visitors at the 
Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum on April 28. 
The Mexican Bean Beetle (Eptlachna corrupta Muls.) has already appeared in 
several parts of the State of Tennessee this season and egg-masses have been taken. 
At present seventy counties are known to be infested with this pest. 
There has been a very serious outbreak of the Strawberry Weevil (Anthonomus 
signatus ) in four counties of Tennessee, Hamilton, Rhea, Roane and Gibson. Early 
strawberries have suffered from ten to sixty per cent from the infestation of this insect. 
Prof. Herbert Osborn of the Ohio State University spent several days at the 
Kansas State Agricultural College while en route from California to his home. While 
at Manhattan, Prof. Osborn addressed the Science Club on “Insect Relationship to 
the Environment.” 
On March 6, Dr. H. E. Burke of the Bureau of Entomology lectured before the 
Zoological Club of Stanford University on “Fighting the Western Pine Beetle.” 
The lecture was illustrated by the Department moving picture of the same title. 
Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, will be Chairman of the 
conference considering the questions relating to food production and conservation at 
the Pan-Pacific Congress to be held at Honolulu, July 21 to August 14, 1924. 
Dr. Albert Hartzell, who has been engaged in research work on sulphur as an 
insecticide for the Crop Protection Institute and located at the Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station, Geneva, N. Y., has recently been appointed Entomologist of the 
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., at Yonkers, N. Y. 
Air. L. R. Cagle, fellow, Department of Entomology, University of Tennessee, 
has recently accepted a position with Prof. W. J. Schoene, Blacksburg, Va. Mr. 
Cagle will pursue the work on the life history of the Oriental Peach Moth, being 
stationed at Leesburg, Va. 
Entomological News records the death of Colonel Charles Swinhoe, Lepidopterist, 
at Avonmore, West Kensington, London, December 2, 1923, and of the Reverend 
Canon Theodore Wood, son of Reverend J. G. Wood, and author of various ento¬ 
mological papers, at Wordsworth Common, England, December 13, 1923. 
According to Science, Air. J. L. King, who recently returned from Japan after 
three years study of the parasites of the green Japanese beetle, is now appointed as 
specialist in charge of the division of parasites at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, 
Riverton, N. J. 
