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and 1891 Professor Macloskie published several papers, chiefly morphological and 
anatomical, dealing with insects. 
Mr. Archibald H. Ritchie has resigned his official position in Jamaica to accept a 
position with sugar planters at Albion Estate, Yallahs P. O. 
Mr. R. H. Hutchinson of the Bureau of Entomology resigned March 15, to accept 
a position with the H. K. Mulford Company, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The American Honey Producers’ League was organized at the meeting at Kansas 
City, Mo., January 6 and 7, called by the National Beekeepers’ Association. 
The thirty-first annual meeting of the California State Beekeepers’ Association 
was held at the auditorium, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, on February 6 and 7. 
The thirty-first annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Beekeepers’ Association was 
held at Harrisburg on January 21, and was one of the most successful ever held in that 
state. 
Mr. J. C. Crawford, for several years in charge of the Hymenoptera at the U. S. 
National Museum, and a specialist on the Chalcididse, resigned his position in Jan¬ 
uary, 1920. 
Mr. M. J. Moloughney, entomological branch, Canadian Department of Agri¬ 
culture, is in ill health, and a three months’ additional sick leave was granted him 
from February 9, 1920. 
Wisconsin has a new apiary inspection law now in force which prohibits shipping 
bees into the state except on permit of the state entomologist, unless accompanied by 
an official certificate of inspection. 
The meeting of the National Beekeepers’ Association was held at the Statler Hotel, 
Buffalo, N. Y., March 9-11, and the program included addresses by Dr. E. F. Phil¬ 
lips, Prof. F. B. Paddock and Prof. George H. Rea. 
Mr. R. R. Reppert, assistant state entomologist of Virginia, has resigned to accept 
the position of extension entomologist in the state of Texas. Mr. Reppert expected 
to assume the duties of this position early in March. 
The laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at Grand Junction, Colo., where in¬ 
vestigations of the codling moth have been carried out for the past few seasons in 
cooperation with the Colorado Agricultural College, has now been discontinued. 
Mr. G. E. Sanders, Annapolis Royal Laboratory, and Mr. W. A. Ross, Vineland 
Laboratory, Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, attended 
the meetings of the New York State Fruit Growers’ Association at Rochester, N. Y. 
Mr. E. H. Strickland, Entomological Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, 
Canada, has recently visited the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Bussey 
Institution of Harvard University where he spent six weeks studying mites under Dr. 
Banks. 
Recent appointments in the Bureau of Entomology are announced as follows: 
Perez Simmons, pea and bean weevil investigations, Alhambra, Cal.; Earl R. Van 
Leeuwen; W. H. Carpenter; Curtis P. Clausen; A. L. Johnson, Alabama; J. C. 
Bridwell, Honolulu. 
The following resignations are reported from the Bureau of Entomology: F. B. 
Milliken, to enter commercial work; H. H. Stage, to become entomologist of the St. 
Louis and Southwestern Railway Lines; Dr. Roger C. Smith, to accept a state posi¬ 
tion; George B. Fisher; Roger J. Chambers; A. P. Swallow, to enter commercial 
