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West, U. S. Department of Agriculture, since last February, has been elected professor 
of Rural Organization in the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell 
University. 
Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, the well-known zoologist and vice-chancellor of the 
University of Cambridge is now in the United States as head of a commission to secure 
closer cooperation between American and British educational institutions. 
Dr. A. C. Chandler, assistant in zoology, and F. H. Lathrop, research assistant in 
entomology, Oregon Agricultural College, have received commissions as second 
lieutenants in the Sanitary Corps, and have been granted leave of absence from their 
college work for the duration of the war. 
Dr. E. D. Ball, state entomologist of Wisconsin, took up his work as chairman of 
the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the Iowa State College, Ames, on 
October 20. He will also be chief of the Entomological Department of the Experi¬ 
ment Station and state entomologist. 
Prof. C. L. Metcalf, assistant professor of economic entomology at the Ohio State 
University, Columbus, Ohio, has been granted a leave of absence for the entire year 
and is engaged in graduate study at the Bussey Institution of Harvard University, 
Forest Hills, Mass. He is specializing in the dipterous family Syrphidse. 
According to Science Professor Maxwell-LeFroy, professor of entomology at the 
Imperial College of Science, London, has accepted a year’s engagement with the 
Commonwealth Government for £3,000, plus £2,000 for experiments. He will 
investigate the blowfly, the grain weevil, the woolly aphis, prickly pear and St. 
Johns wort. 
Mr. V. E. A. Daecke, assistant in the Bureau of Zoology, Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, Harrisburg, Pa., died at Richmond, Long Island, N. Y., October 27. Mr. 
Daecke was a specialist in the Diptera, and a member of the Entomological Society 
of America, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and a fellow of the 
Harrisburg Natural History Society. 
Harold Morrison, Bureau of Entomology, has left for tropical insect work, and 
plans to cover such of the Islands of the Lesser Antilles as are of sufficient commercial 
or agricultural importance to justify an entomological survey. The field will extend 
from the Virgin Islands south to Trinidad and may also include British Guiana and 
other portions of the northern coast of South America. 
Experimental work with the Smith machine at Philadelphia by the Bureau of 
Entomology has demonstrated that bean weevils, rice weevils, and the Angoumis grain 
moth can be killed by passing the infested seed through an electrical field. It remains 
to be seen whether the inventor can make good his belief that he can kill insects in 
grains and other seeds passed through a machine at the rate of 200 to 300 tons per 
hour. While this machine has yet to be perfected, it promises much. 
The following appointments are announced by the Bureau of Entomology: 
Mr. Arthur E. Mallory, Kansas State University, scientific assistant, truck crop in¬ 
sects, Greeley, Colo.; Miss Anna R. Frank, Los Angeles, Calif., scientific assistant, 
Southern field crop insects, for duty at Washington, D. C.; Lloyd P. O’Dowd, field 
assistant, sugar-cane insect laboratory, New Orleans, La.; L. R. Watson, extension 
work in bee culture, Storrs, Conn.; H. A. Scullen, apicultural extension work in 
Washington, Oregon, Montana and Northern Idaho; H. L. McMurray, apicultural 
