June, *18] 
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Mr. George S. Demuth, Bureau of Entomology, left Washington February 20 for 
a six weeks' trip in California where a series of meetings on the control of bee diseases 
were held in cooperation with E. F. Atwater of the Bureau. 
According to Nature the Entomological Society of Spain has recently been founded, 
with its center for the present at St. Saviour's College, Saragossa. Dr. Hermene- 
gildo Gorria of Barcelona is president and the Rev. R. P. Longinos, Navas, S. J., 
Secretary for 1918. 
Mr. C. H. Hadley, extension entomologist, Pennsylvania State College, has been 
placed in charge of entomological research, and for the present is to be located at 
Bustleton, Philadelphia County laboratories, as entomologist and will give attention 
to truck crop insects. 
Prof. C. W. Woodworth of the University of California is spending his sabbatical 
year in Nanking, China, in helping to develop the Agricultural College of the Uni¬ 
versity of Nanking, along entomological lines. Entomological literature is needed by 
the University Library. 
A hearing was called at 10 o'clock a. m. for May 28, by the Federal Horticultural 
Board at Washington, D. C., to receive testimony regarding the advisability of 
restricting or prohibiting the importation of nursery plants into the United States 
from foreign countries. 
Prof. William A. Riley goes to Minnesota as Professor of Entomology and head of 
the Division of Entomology and Economic Zoology and not, as has been stated 
earlier, as Professor of Parasitology. He plans to continue teaching along lines he 
developed at Cornell University. 
The following resignations in the Bureau of Entomology are announced: P. W. 
Erbaugh, bee culture, to enlist in the Marine Corps; David Running, extension work 
in bee culture, New York; J. H. Wagner, bee culture; H. B. Parks, cereal and forage 
insects, to enter the Texas state extension service; E. Phillip Barrios, to take up 
county agent work in Louisiana; Roswell C. Pickett, extension work, truck crop 
insects, Texas. 
W. Dwight Pierce, with the approval of Dr. L. O. Howard, is conducting a class in 
the entomology of disease, hygiene and sanitation, with special reference to army 
needs and the possibility of there being a call for a large number of men prepared 
for service along these lines. There is a weekly lecture in Dr. Hunter's room and this 
is supplemented by reports upon special topics from various members of the class. 
The proceedings are mimeographed and distributed to the class and others interested 
oven if they are not able to attend the lectures. Over one hundred copies of the 
proceedings are now distributed. 
Mr. P. van der Goot, of Buitenzorg, Java, Entomological assistant at the great 
sugar experiment station there, was in Washington from the 15th to the 25th of 
February, looking up matters connected with the injurious insects of tropical crops. 
Mr. van der Goot is especially well known by his writings, his large contribution to 
the knowledge of Aphididae of Java and other papers of importance. He speaks 
English very fluently, and is still a young man with many years of work ahead of 
him. He is on his return to Java from Holland, and in crossing this country will 
stop at New Orleans, Tucson and Pasadena, and hopes to spend ten days in Hawaii. 
