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Lake States, does not seem to be causing any damage in Wisconsin this season. 
It was also discovered that the pine tussock moth (Olene leucophoea ) of which there 
was a serious outbreak in Burnett and Bayfield counties in 1922, seems to have been 
completely cleaned up for the present, at least, by natural enemies and disease. 
Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, attended the annual 
meeting of the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants, which was held at 
Macdonald College, during the third week of Aoril. During the evening session he 
gave a brief account of a recent hearing which he attended in Washington, D. C., 
regarding the movement of Christmas Trees from the Quebec Province into the 
United States and showed maps indicating the area in Quebec Province upon which 
the Federal Horticultural Board has placed an embargo. He also spoke of the recent 
infestation of the gipsy moth found at Alburg, Vermont. During the following day 
he went to Montreal and spent a short time with the inspection officers at that port. 
Mr. C. H. Curran, who has been connected with the Division of Systematic 
Entomology, Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, as As¬ 
sistant Entomologist, for the past year and a half, relinquished his position on April 
first on promotion to the position of Entomologist in Charge of Stored Products 
Insect Investigations, formerly held by Mr. E. H. Strickland. Mr. Curran will 
continue in charge of the Diptera in the Canadian National Collection, in addition 
to the work entailed in his new duties. He proposes to complete as far as possible 
the collection of insects attacking stored products and will also take up the study of 
mites, especially those groups whose members are of economic importance. Mr. 
Curran spent his holidays during the latter part of March and early April at Cornell 
University, studying the Diptera in the collection. Arrangements were made for the 
exchange of specimens with the Canadian National Collection. 
At the invitation of Samuel Henshaw and Nathan Banks of the Cambridge 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Professors W. M. Wheeler and C. T. Brues, 
of Bussey Institute, Dr. E. A. Schwarz, accompanied by R. C. Shannon, went for 
several days to Cambridge and Boston. At the Cambridge Museum, Dr. Schwarz 
made an examination of the Coleoptera collections of Le Conte, Melsheimer, Ziegler, 
and others, and helped Mr. Banks elucidate a number of tangles existing among the 
various labels on the specimens, and clear up other points relating to type specimens. 
Mr. Shannon studied the types in the Osten Sacken-Loew collection. The Entomo¬ 
logical Society of Cambridge had a special meeting, a smoker, in honor of Dr. Schwarz. 
Here he met a number of his old friends and many new entomologists who are now 
members of this club. C. W. Collins took Dr. Schwarz for a visit to the Gipsy Moth 
Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, where he met the personnel and was shown the 
different phases of their work. 
Horticultural Inspection Notes 
Mr. P. A. Glick has been transferred from New York to Washington, where he 
will be located permanently. 
Mr. Charles E. Prince, Jr., has received a temporary appointment in the Plant 
Quarantine Inspection Service and is stationed at New York City. 
Mr. Napoleon Beaudoin, B.S.A., was recently appointed to the position of Insect 
Pest Investigator for the Montreal Inspection Staff, and reported for duty May 16. 
Mr. L. R. Gagnon, B.S.A., graduate of Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere Agricultural 
