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According to Science , Dr. William M. Wheeler, professor of entomology and dean 
of the faculty of the Bussey Institution at Harvard University, has been named to 
represent the University as exchange professor in France during the second half of 
the next college year. 
Mr. Alan P. Dodd, who has been sent from Australia to take up the work on cactus 
insects recently relinquished by J. C. Hamlin, had a conference with the latter and 
Dr. W. D. Hunter at Tallulah, La., on May 20. He visited Washington later. 
Entomological News announces the death of the following entomologists: Arthur 
Hugh Jones, English Lepidopterist, February 22, 1924; Herbert Campion, temporary 
assistant in Entomology, British Museum, January 24, 1924; Thomas A. Annandale, 
Director of the Zoological Survey of India, died at Calcutta, April 10, 1924. 
Mr. Ivan L. Ressler, instructor in zoology and entomology at Iowa State College, 
has secured a leave of absence in order to complete his work for a Doctor’s degree at 
the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ressler has a temporary instructorship in 
zoology in the University of Pennsylvania. 
Recently the Dominion Entomologist arranged with the Director of the North¬ 
west Territories Branch of the Department of the Interior for collections of insects 
to be made by the Reverend Mr. Hoare in Arctic localities during the next two years. 
Mr. Hoare left for the north early in June. 
Air. Leonard S. AlcLaine, Chief-of the Division of Foreign Pests Suppression of 
the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, was married June 
10, in St. Alban’s Church, Ottawa, to Miss Kathleen Meredith Lett. Mr. and Mrs. 
McLaine sailed June 12 for a six weeks’ trip in England. 
Mr. N. F. Howard, Bureau of Entomology of Birmingham, Ala., recently visited 
Columbus and other points in Ohio, to prepare plans for the establishment of a new 
temporary substation at Columbus for the study of the Afexican bean beetle in its 
occurrence in Ohio. He also conferred with State and University officials. 
The following appointments to the staff of the Canadian Entomological Branch 
have been announced: R. M. White, R. D. Bird, Treesbank; Walter Carter, H. E. 
Gray, Lethbridge; A. W. Woods, Strathroy; A. J. Graham, Vineland; T. Armstrong, 
G. A. Hammond, Hemmingford; E. A. Randall, Vernon, B. C.; N. A. Patterson, 
Annapolis Royal; G. S. Walley, H. H. Thomas, K. F. Auden, Alorna Bonell. 
A new project of the State Entomologists’ office of Wisconsin is assistance to the 
state institutions in reducing insect losses. The State Board of Control has placed 
a trained agriculturist in charge of the farms and truck gardens at the seventeen 
state institutions and the staff of the state entomologist’s office is making a survey 
of the premises at the different locations and arranging for improvements in insect 
control. 
Air. Louis A. Stearns, Associate Entomologist with the Virginia State Crop Pest 
Commission and Assistant Professor of Entomology at the Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute, Blacksburg, resigned his position April 1, to accent the position of Assistant 
Entomologist at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, 
where he is continuing his investigation of the Oriental Peach Aloth. 
Alessrs. K. L. Cockerham, of Biloxi, Miss., and S. C. Brummitt, of Silverhill, Ala., 
both of the Bureau of Entomology, recently met with the authorities of the Alabama 
State Board of Agriculture at Mobile, Ala., to formulate further plans for the future 
