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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
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Mr. George N. Wolcott, who was recently engaged to handle the entomological 
phases of the cooperative work between the Bureau of Entomology and the Bureau 
of Plant Industry relating to the possible insect transmission of the sugar cane 
mosaic disease, sailed for Porto Rico on November 24, to take up the work there. 
A course for commercial beekeepers was held in connection with the annual 
meeting of the Ohio Beekeepers’ Association, during Farmers’ Week at the Ohio 
State University, Columbus, Ohio, from January 26 to 30. This course is in charge of 
Dr. E. F. Phillips and Mr. George S. Demuth of the Bureau of Entomology. 
Mr. Melvin E. Wyant, a recent graduate of the Ohio State University, has been 
appointed a deputy inspector in the Bureau of Horticulture of the Department of 
Agriculture of Ohio to succeed Mr. Richard Faxon, who resigned some time ago to 
accept a position in the insecticide department of the Glidden Company of Cleveland, 
Ohio. 
Major L. H. Dunn has recently resigned from the United States Army, having 
served for some time in France, where he was in charge of delousing men and equip¬ 
ment. He has just accepted a position as entomologist to the League of Red Cross 
Societies with headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland, though he expects that most of 
his work will be in Poland. 
R. R. Parker, Assistant State Entomologist of Montana, has been appointed a 
member of a North American commission of three experts to investigate the spread 
of typhus fever in Russia and Poland. He sailed from New York about January 
15 with the understanding that he was to be released in April to resume his work 
in this country. 
Wilmon Newell, plant commissioner of Florida, was tendered a complimentary 
dinner at Gainesville, January 12, by a number of his associates, in honor of his 
election as President of the American Association of Economic Entomologists. The 
following institutions were represented: State Plant Board and Board of Control, 
Faculty of the University of Florida, Staff of the Experiment Station, Staffs of the 
General Extension Division and of the Agricultural Extension Division of the Uni¬ 
versity of Florida and Staff of the State Plant Board. There were 54 present, Hon. 
J. B. Hodges, chairman of the State Plant Board and Board of Control acted as toast¬ 
master. 
According to the Experiment Station Record, announcement was recently made in 
Parliament of a change in policy in 1918 regarding research in entomology and plant 
pathology through public funds. These subjects were originally allocated to the 
University of Manchester and the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, respectively, with 
grants from the Development Fund for their support. In 1918, however, the Devel¬ 
opment Board decided that all research in plant diseases, whether due to insects or 
fungi, should be concentrated at a single phytopathological institute at Rothamsted, 
where also the board’s scientific advisory staff in the subject would be stationed. 
Accordingly the staff at Manchester and a portion of the mycological staff at Kew were 
transferred to Rothamsted. A grant of $5,000 per annum was, however, continued "" 
to the University of Manchester to maintain certain phases of its entomological 
work and also to take up work in mycology there. 
An enjoyable dinner was held by the entomologists at the St. Louis Athletic Club 
on New Year’s night. This was the first time that the entomologists have held a 
dinner, and it is likely to become an annual event. Eight ex-presidents were seated 
together at the table with the president, Professor W. C. O’Kane, who called attention 
to the fact that their combined age was 452 years, and that their combined period of 
