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entomologist at the Grootfontein School of Agriculture, Middleburg, Cape, and visited 
this country some two years ago. 
Recent appointments in the Bureau of Entomology are announced as follows: 
W. B. Wheelis, junior entomologist in research investigation on the Mexican bean 
beetle, Alfred Lutkin, agent in eradication of sweet potato weevil in southern 
Mississippi in co-operation with State Plant Board; Robert M. Fouts, field assistant, 
pecan insect investigations, Brownwood, Tex.; Travis E. McNeel, junior ento¬ 
mologist, malaria mosquito investigations, Mound, La.; W. D. Mecum, temporary 
field assistant, Madison, Wis.; L. W. Brannon, Mexican bean beetle laboratory, 
Birmingham, Ala.; P. R. Hickborn, pea aphis investigations, San Jose Valley, Calif.; 
F. A. Fenton, boll weevil laboratory, Florence, S. C. 
An important conference was held at Tucson, Ariz., on April 10 to determine the 
best procedure to follow in view of the recent discovery of the Thurberia weevil in 
cotton grown near Tucson. It was attended by the Arizona Quarantine Commission, 
representatives of cotton planting interests in Arizona, and by W. D. Hunter, R. E. 
McDonald of the State Department of Agriculture, as well as A. W. Morrill and 
W. D. Pierce. The State Commission decided, on the advice of W. D. Hunter and 
R. E. McDonald, to establish a non-cotton zone extending about 30 miles from the 
Santa Catalina Mountains. 
Dr. W. R. Dodson, Chairman of the Cotton Council of the Association of Southern 
Agricultural Workers, called a meeting at Atlanta, Ga., on April 14, for considering 
plans to use as nearly as possible a uniform system in planning and recording boll 
weevil experiments during the coming season. Such a course is highly desirable on 
account of the difficulty which has been experienced heretofore in comparing results 
obtained in experiments performed according to diverse plans. Entomologists from 
practically all of the Southern States except North Carolina and Florida were present. 
Mr. B. R. Coad represented the Bureau of Entomology. A definite program was 
worked out and adopted. 
A conference of the entomologists of Ohio, especially those dealing with the corn 
borer problem, the county agricultural agents of the quarantine counties, and the 
editors of daily and weekly papers in the quarantined area, met at the offices of the 
Ohio Farmer , April 4, for the purpose of enlisting and co-ordinating the efforts of all 
these men and agencies to clean up effectually and destroy all the corn borer larvae 
possible this spring. The clean-up campaign is under the direction of T. H. Parks, 
extension entomologist, of Ohio State University. H. A. Gossard, J. S. Houser, L.L. 
Huber, and C. R. Neiswander attended the conference and will participate in the 
activities of clean-up week. 
According to Science , on the afternoon of April 3, Prof. John Henry Comstock 
of Cornell gave an address on “Early Entomologists and Their Work’’ in the lecture 
room of the department of entomology of Stanford University. The lecture was 
attended by a number of professors and students of the University of California and 
of Stanford University, and by some of the entomologists of the California Academy 
of Sciences and others of the San Francisco Bay region. In the evening a dinner was 
given at the Stanford Union in honor of Professor and Mrs. Comstock. After the 
dinner, Professor and Mrs. Comstock both gave interesting talks. Dr. David Starr 
Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Stanford University, one of Dr. Comstock’s first 
students in entomology, and others also gave very interesting talks. 
