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fore have the same privileges as British ones, including the right to receive the 
Annals of Applied Biology for the annual subscription of 1 guinea (sold at 25s. to 
the public). 
The entomological laboratory of the Tennessee Station has recently been equipped 
with an electric incubator, fitted with an extremely sensitive thermo-regulator. 
It has ample space for a large amount of material, also for a recording thermometer 
and hydrograph, and thermometers and a hydrograph by which the recording instru¬ 
ments are regulated. 
Mr. Donald J. Caffrey, in charge of the Hagerstown, Md., field station of the 
Bureau of Entomology, visited the New England States during his vacation in 
December and January, and called at the entomological laboratories of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., and the Connecticut Agricultural 
Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn. 
Mr. Charles F. Baker, who for the past year has been assistant director of the 
Botanic Gardens at Singapore, and previously professor of Agronomy at the Philip¬ 
pine College of Agriculture, has been recalled to the Philippines to become dean 
of the College of Agriculture and professor of Tropical Agronomy on account of the 
mid-year retirement of Dean Copeland. 
Mr. William M. Mann, Bureau of Entomology, has recently been commissioned to 
go to Cuba to continue the work which Harold Morrison was doing there in relation 
particularly to the white fly and other insects affecting tropical and subtropical 
plants, having more particular relation to pests against which it may be necessary to 
take quarantine or other restrictive measures to exclude from the Continental 
United States. 
A general conference of the Hessian-fly staff was called in Washington for the 
first week in January, for the purpose of comparing notes, for consultation with the 
Chief of the Bureau and others, but especially to consider the Hessiap-fly problem 
in connection with adaptations and modifications of agronomic practice. Experts 
from the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry will be detailed to meet the Hessian-fly 
men in joint conference. 
According to Science Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, F. R. S. C., dominion entomologist 
and consulting zoologist of the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, has been awarded 
the gold medal of the Royal Society of Canada for the Protection of Birds, and has 
been elected an honorary fellow of the Society, in recognition of his services to the 
cause of bird protection in England and in Canada, and particularly in connection 
with the treaty between Canada and the United States for the protection of migratory 
birds. 
Dr. L. P. de Bussy, formerly biologist to the Tobacco Planters’ Association at 
Deli, Sumatra, who visited this country in 1910 in the effort to get parasites of 
injurious tobacco insects for importation into Sumatra, visited the Bureau of En¬ 
tomology early in November on his way back from Sumatra to Amsterdam, where 
he is to take the position of Director of the Dutch Colonial Museum. Doctor de 
Bussy reports that Trichogramma pretiosa was successfully introduced and established 
in Sumatra. 
Mr. M. A. Yothers, assistant entomologist of the Washington Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station, has resigned to accept a position with the Federal Bureau of Entomol¬ 
ogy at Medford, Oregon, where he will investigate fruit insects. His place has been 
