August, ’24] 
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the vicinity of Asheville, N. C., examining southern pine beetle outbreaks and control 
work conducted during the previous winter. 
Mr. William B. Turner, connected with the Bureau of Entomology for about 
fifteen years, and an associate member of the Association of Economic Entomologists, 
died at Sacramento, California, June 11, 1924. 
Dr. N. E. Winters, head of the division of boll weevil control of the South Carolina 
Station has accepted an appointment with the division of cotton investigations of the 
Argentine Ministry of Agriculture. 
According to the Experiment Station Record, H. A. Ballou is now professor of 
zoology and entomology at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture at St. 
Augustine, Trinidad, which was formally opened in October, 1922. 
Mr. E. E. Russell, Bureau of Entomology, green bug and grasshopper investi¬ 
gations, Gainesville, Texas, has been transferred to Yuma, Ariz., to start an investi¬ 
gation of the alfalfa seed chalcid under direction of V. L. Wildermuth. 
Messrs. H. L. Person and Albert Wagner have just completed a survey of the 
cut-over areas of the Sierra National Forest, to determine the extent to which insect 
losses are affecting the second crop of timber. 
Prof. A. F. Conradi, State Entomologist of South Carolina, and a delegation 
from his State visited the peach insect laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at 
Fort Valley, Ga., on May 20, to observe investigations under way. 
Dr. J. D. Tothill returned to Canada from England on April 19. Shortly after 
his arrival, and accompanied by Mr. Simpson, a three weeks’ trip was taken in the 
Nictau Lake district, investigating borer injury in fire-killed timber. 
Entomological work and other work in Rhode Island is being held up or greatly 
handicapped because of the filibuster in the State Senate through which all appropri¬ 
ation bills and practically all other business is prevented from receiving consideration. 
Prof. B. B. Fulton of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station and College 
has resigned to accept the position as Assistant Entomologist and instructor of 
entomology in the department of zoology and entomology at the Iowa State College. 
Professor Fulton began work at Ames July 15th. 
Mr. E. Hargreaves of the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London, 
formerly a Carnegie scholar who traveled and studied in the United States, has just 
been appointed entomologist in Sierra Leone. He planned to sail on June 11th. 
Mr. Rodney Cecil, a graduate student in entomology at Iowa State College has 
accepted a position as Junior Entomologist with the Bureau of Entomology. He is 
working under the direction of Mr. Neale Howard in the Mexican Bean Beetle work 
at Birmingham, Ala. 
Professor Ralph H. Smith closed his work in spreader research for the Golden 
State Milk Products Company (California Central Creameries) on June 1. He is 
now connected with the Department of Entomology, University of California, at 
Berkeley, where he should be addressed. 
Mr. S. F. Potts, M.S., University of Maryland, 1924, has been appointed to a 
fellowship at Ohio State University, and during the summer will work on a temporary 
appointment in the Bureau of Entomology at the new Mexican Bean Beetle Labora¬ 
tory in Ohio. 
