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work; E. R. Jones; E. G. Baldwin; H. A. Scullen; H. D. Smith; E. M. Searls 
T. D. Urbahns, to accept a position with the California State Department of Agri 
culture; A. B. Jarrell; H. D. Smith. 
Mr. C. A. Reese has severed his connection with the State Department of Agri" 
culture, Charleston, W. Va., as state apiarist to take charge of similar work for the 
Florida Plant Pest Board under Prof. Wilmon Newell. Mr. Reese took up his duties 
at Gainesville, Fla., March 1, 1920. 
The following recent appointments in the Entomological Branch, Canadian De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, are announced: Mr. Ralph Hopping, Division of forest 
insects; Miss M. Nash, temporary clerk stenographer at headquarters; Miss J. R. 
Oliver, temporary clerk stenographer at Vineland Station Laboratory. 
Resignations in the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture* 
are announced as follows: Mr. C. C. Rokeby, temporary superintendent of fumiga¬ 
tion, Windsor; Mr. R. N. Chrystal, forest insects; Mr. E. A. McMahon, Annapolis 
Royal Laboratory, to accept a position with the John Cowan Chemical Company of 
Montreal. 
Dr. J. H. McDunnough, officer in charge of the National Collection of Insects, 
Dominion of Canada, has been promoted to the position of chief of the Division of 
Systematic Entomology. On account of lack of space for the National Collection 
of Insects, tenders have been issued for ten new steel cabinets; these will hold 250 
insect drawers. 
In an endeavor to prevent the further spread of the apple sucker (Psylla mail 
Schmid) by artificial means, a quarantine has been placed on the infested district in 
the vicinity of Wolfville, N. S. No apple stock, including seedlings, scions, buds or 
grafts, may be removed from the quarantined area unless it is accompanied by a 
certificate of inspection. 
Mr. Curtis P. Clausen, a graduate of the University of California, has been ap¬ 
pointed by the Bureau of Entomology, specialist in insect parasites of the Japanese 
beetle, and will soon sail for Japan, where he will undertake a study of all natural 
enemies of this insect in that country, with the view of introducing the natural ene¬ 
mies of the beetle into New Jersey. 
Mr. W. H. Goodwin, Bureau of Entomology, was to have entered upon the inves¬ 
tigation of mill insects, December 1. Because of ill health he asked for a leave of 
nine months without pay. He has accepted employment with a commercial firm 
and, in view of his practical experience along the line of flour-mill insect control, it is 
probable that he will continue in commercial work. 
The Bureau of Entomology Laboratory at Seaview, Wash., where investigations of 
cranberry insects have been made during the past two seasons in cooperation with the 
Washington Agricultural Experiment Station, has been discontinued, and H. K. 
Plank will be placed in charge of the Bureau’s laboratory to be reestablished in Mich¬ 
igan for the purpose of making investigations of deciduous fruit insects in that region. 
A hearing was held in Washington, D. C., February 24, before the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board in relation to quarantine restrictions on account of the European 
corn borer. Among the entomologists present were: E. N. Cory, Maryland; J. G. 
Sanders, Pennsylvania; T. J. Headlee, New Jersey; W. E. Britton, Connecticut; 
W. C. O'Kane, New Hampshire; and Messrs. C. L. Marlatt, W. R. Walton, D. J. 
Caffrey, E. R. Sasscer and L. H. Worthley, Bureau of Entomology; Massachusetts 
was represented by Dr. A. W. Gilburt, commissioner of agriculture, and New York 
