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Mr. A. C. Lewis has been appointed state entomologist of Georgia in place of 
E. L. Worsham, whose resignation was announced some time ago. 
Professor John H. Comstock of Cornell University lectured before the Syracuse- 
Chapter of Sigma Xi, April 1, on the Habits of Spiders. 
Professor H. T. Fernald of the Massachusetts Agricultural College has returned 
to Amherst after a six months’ leave of absence spent in the Southwest. 
Mr. J. E. Eckert has been appointed assistant entomologist in field work and nurs¬ 
ery inspector in the Station, vice S. C. Clapp, at the North Carolina Station. 
Dr. F. W. Pettey of Cornell University, has resumed his duties as entomologist for 
Cape Province, South Africa. His address is Elsenberg Agricultural College, Mulders 
Vlei, Cape Province, South Africa. 
George S. Demuth and E. F. Atwater of the Bureau of Entomology, held a series 
of meetings in California in the spring, the subject being the control of European 
foul brood. 
Professor George G. Becker, state entomologist of Arkansas, has resigned his posi¬ 
tion to enter the military service of his country. His address for the present is 502 
North Calhoun St., Baltimore, Md. 
Mr. Charles E. Sleight of Paterson, N. J., a collector of insects, and member of 
the New York and Brooklyn Entomological Societies, died at Ramsay, N. J., May 20, 
1917, aged fifty-seven years. 
Professor A. C. Burrill, formerly state entomologist of Idaho, has been appointed 
special field agent, Bureau of Entomology, to assist in extension work on cereal and 
forage insect control in Washington and Oregon. 
Dr. Paul S. Welch, Kansas Agricultural College, is a member of the zoological 
staff of the Biological Station of the University of Michigan at Douglas Lake; the 
tenth session extends from July 1st to August 23d. 
Dr. E. P. Felt delivered an illustrated lecture on “Garden Insects — good and 
bad—” May 19th at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, this being one of a series of “Win- 
the-War-Gar dens” lectures inaugurated for Sunday afternoons at four o’clock. 
Professor C. L. Metcalf, professor of Economic Entomology at the Ohio State 
University, Columbus, Ohio, is spending the summer in Ithaca, N. Y., where he has 
charge of the course in general biology in the summer session of Cornell University. 
Mr. W. H. Goodwin of the laboratory of Economic Zoology, Harrisburg, Pa., has 
accepted a position with the state entomologist of New Jersey and is in charge of 
eradicating the Japanese beetle, Popilia japonica Newman, an infestation of which 
was discovered last year at Rutherford, N. J. 
Mr. Reyne, who is on his way from Holland to take a position as government 
entomologist in Dutch Guiana, spent about a month in the United States in June 
and July visiting the Bureau of Entomology and the Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tions at College Park, Md., New Brunswick, N. J., and New Haven, Conn. 
According to Entomological News, the deaths of the following European entomol¬ 
ogists are announced: Dr. Emile Frey-Gessner, Geneva, Switzerland (particulars not 
given); William Henry Harwood, English Lepidopterist and Hymenopterist, born 
