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filled by the appointment of Mr. Anthony Spuler, B. S. in Entomology, a graduate 
of the Washington State College. Mr. Spuler will give his entire time to an investiga¬ 
tion of cranberry insects in southwestern Washington, in cooperation with the 
Federal Bureau of Entomology. 
Professor Vernon Kellogg has been associated with Herbert Hoover in the work 
of the Commission for Relief in Belgium since May, 1915, and in the work of the 
United States Food Administration since its organization. Professor Kellogg’s 
duties in the Food Administration are advisory and editorial He also gives special 
attention to matters connected with the food conditions among the Allies. Professor 
Kellogg gave the annual address before the Entomological Society of America at 
Pittsburgh, Pa., December 28. 
Professor H. Maxwell-Lefroy, formerly Imperial Entomologist in India, and 
now lecturer on applied zoology at the Imperial College of Science, London, visited 
Washington, D. C., in November on his way from England to Australia, where he is 
going to investigate weevil damage to stored wheat which is to be shipped from 
Australia to the United States. On his trip he visited the Department of Entomology 
at the Kansas State Agricultural College, November 26 and 27, and gave an excellent 
address before the Zoological and Entomological Seminar on “Medical Entomology 
in the English Armies.” 
The Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota at their meeting on January 
18 elected Dr. W. A. Riley of Cornell, Professor of Parasitology and Chief of the Divi¬ 
sion of Economic Zoology. Associate Professor A. G. Ruggles was, at the same time, 
appointed Station Entomologist which position carries with it the office of State 
Entomologist. At the December meeting of the Board Professor F. L. Washburn, 
who has held the position of State Entomologist in Minnesota for nearly sixteen years, 
asked and obtained permission to be relieved of that position and its attendant police 
duties, and the action of the Board on the 18th was necessary to fill the vacancy thus 
caused. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, returned November 14 from an extended 
western trip, taken for the purpose of arranging for extension work in beekeeping. 
In addition to conferences with various extension directors, meetings of beekeepers 
were held in Utah, Idaho and California. Most beekeepers in the west are awake 
to the need of increasing honey production next year and are making plans to that 
end. The bee disease situation in California is more serious than had been realized, 
due to a failure of beekeepers to differentiate American foulbrood and European 
foulbrood. Many are attempting to treat American foulbrood by methods applica¬ 
ble only to European foulbrood with disastrous results. 
Transfers have recently been made in the Bureau of Entomology as follows: Dr. 
J. A. Nelson, apiculture, to southern field crop insect investigations; R. A. Cushman, 
parasite work deciduous fruit insects, North East, Pa., to Wallingford, Conn.; G. F. 
Moznette, Federal Horticultural Board, Washington, D. C., to subtropical fruit 
insect investigations, Miami, Fla.; C. E. Bartholomew from Tennessee to take up 
extension work in beekeeping in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho; L. C. Griffith, 
shade tree insects, to extension work with deciduous fruit insect control, Ithaca, N. Y.; 
Marion R. Smith, Washington, D. C., to Baton Rouge, La., truck crop insect in¬ 
vestigations; Roy E. Campbell and Harold J. Ryan, truck crop insect investigations, 
have moved their headquarters from Pasadena to Alhambra, Cal.; K. L. Cockerham, 
truck crop insects, Muscatine, Iowa, to extension work at Agricultural College, Miss.; 
Harry M. Gillert, South Carolina to Raleigh, North Carolina. 
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