February, ’20] 
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the Federal Horticultural Board, and assigned to duty in the Plant Quarantine 
Greenhouse. 
The New Jersey Beekeepers’ Association held its annual meeting at Trenton 
N. J., January 15 and 16. Dr. E. F. Phillips, and E. G. Carr, secretary of the asso¬ 
ciation, addressed the meeting. 
Mr. Neale F. Howard, specialist in insects as carriers of plant diseases, has been 
reappointed in the division of truck crop insect investigations, Bureau of Entomology, 
and has established headquarters at Bowling Green, Ohio. 
The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Ont., held its tenth annual Short 
Course in Apiculture January 12 to 24. Messrs. F. E. Millen and George H. Rea 
were among the speakers. 
Mr. John E. Graf, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to his headquarters at 
Macclenny, Fla., after a protracted visit at Ocean Springs, Miss., in connection with 
sweet-potato weevil eradication and experiments in control measures. 
Mr. F. J. Brinley has been appointed by the Bureau of Entomology, truck crop 
insect investigations, to take charge of the field station at Greeley, Colo., a position 
made vacant by the resignation of A. E. Mallory. 
Mr. M. D. Leonard and Dr. Robert Matheson, of Cornell University, have been 
granted appointments as field assistants of the Bureau of Entomology for special 
work in connection with the European corn borer investigations at Arlington, Mass. 
The fifth annual meeting of the Tennessee State Horticultural Society, Nursery¬ 
men’s Association, and Beekeepers’ Association, was held at Nashville, Tenn., Decem¬ 
ber 9 to 11, 1919. Professor G. M. Bentley is the secretary-treasurer of each of the 
three associations. 
Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, and for twenty-two 
years permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, was elected president of that association at the St. Louis meeting. 
The New York State Association of Beekeepers’ Societies held its annual meeting 
at the Joseph Slocum College of Agriculture, Syracuse University, February 3 and 4. 
Among the speakers were Dr. Burton N. Gates, George H. Rea, and E. G. Carr. 
A conference on the European corn borer was held at Hartford, Conn., February 
12, in connection with Farmers’ Week. Invitations were sent to the official ento¬ 
mologists and commissioners of agriculture of the New England states, New York 
and New Jersey. 
Dr. Burton N. Gates, formerly assistant professor of entomology in the Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., who resigned to accept a position at 
the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., is now living in Worcester, Mass., 
and is again in charge of apiary inspection in Massachusetts. 
Mr. A. L. Ford represented cereal and forage insect investigations of the Bureau 
of Entomology at the International Hay and Grain Show, Chicago, Ill., during the 
week of November 29 to December 6. Mr. Ford prepared and set up the exhibit of 
cereal and forage insects, which was exhibited at the show. 
Mr. E. J. Hoddy severed his connection with the Bureau of Horticulture, Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture of Ohio, on November 30, to accept a position with the Louisville 
and Nashville Railroad Company with headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. 
Hoddy succeeds Mr. W. E. Evans who has entered private commercial work at 
Eustis, Fla. 
