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Mr. Julius W. Sauer has been reappointed assistant entomological inspector, 
Bureau of Entomology, with headquarters at Kingsville, Tex. 
The annual convention of the National Beekeepers’ Association was held at the 
Hotel Statler, Buffalo, N. Y., March 1 to 3. 
The National Conference of delegates representing beekeeping organizations was 
scheduled for January 6 to 9 at the Muehlenbach Hotel, Kansas City, Mo. 
Messrs G. W. Barber and D. J. Caffrey are now engaged in the preparation of a 
manual of Cereal and Forage Insects, which it is hoped will be completed in the near 
future. 
The annual meeting of the Missouri Apicultural Society will be held the third week 
in January at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 
The Wayne County (N. Y.) Beekeepers’ Society held its third annual meeting 
at the Grange Building, Newark, N. Y., on January 30. 
The annual meeting of the Washington State Beekeepers’ Association was held 
in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, January 22 to 24. 
The following resignations are announced in the Bureau of Entomology: C. F* 
La Grone, Baton Rouge, La.; W. B. Williams, C. H. Williams, boll weevil force. 
A conference of federal and state workers employed in controlling the gipsy moth 
was held February 3, at 10.00 a. m., in room 408, State House, Boston, Mass. 
Dr. Roger C. Smith of the United States Bureau of Entomology has resigned to 
accept the position of assistant professor of entomology in the Kansas State Agri¬ 
cultural College. 
Mr. H. E. Loomis, assistant entomological inspector, Bureau of Entomology, who 
has returned from service in the Marine Corps, has been reappointed with head¬ 
quarters at Macclenny, Fla. 
Professor Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University, was elected a member of the 
executive committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at 
the St. Louis meeting. 
Dr. A. L. Quaintance, Bureau of Entomology, made an extended trip to the Pacific 
Coast, visiting various field laboratories attached to his division. He has now 
returned to Washington. 
Mr. C. S. Anderson, of Harrisburg, Pa., was appointed September 1 to the Bureau 
of Entomology as entomological preparator for duty on the European corn borer 
investigations at Arlington, Mass. 
Dr. W. J. Holland, director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., gave the 
annual address before the Entomological Society of America at St. Louis on the 
evening of December 30, 1919. 
Mr. Thomas H. Jones, entomological assistant, Bureau of Entomology, is in Florida, 
where a new station will be established for the investigation of the insects injurious 
to truck crops in that state. 
Mr. C. H. Popenoe, Bureau of Entomology, entomologist in truck crop insect 
investigations, has spent the month in visiting the western stations of that branch, 
with particular attention to the Central Pacific states. 
Mr. W. B. Wood, Bureau of Entomology, who has been assisting Dr. N. E. Mclndoo 
in connection with insecticide investigations the past season, has been transferred to 
