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State, by Mr. G. G. Atwood, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry. The arguments 
were against quarantining states not known to be infested, and in favor of allowing 
shelled corn, vegetables, nursery and flower plants to move under a system of permits, 
inspection and certification. Quarantine 43 is the final outcome. 
The following transfers are announced in the Entomological Branch, Canadian 
Department of Agriculture: Mr. P. N. Vroom, Fredericton Laboratory, temporarily 
to headquarters, Ottawa; Mr. A. E. Kelsall, Annapolis Laboratory, three months’ 
leave of absence to study the chemistry of insecticides at McGill University; Miss 
Grace McCarron, Fredericton Laboratory, to clerk stenographer at headquarters, 
Ottawa. 
Officers of the Brooklyn Entomological Society for 1920 are as follows: President, 
W. T. Davis; vice-president, J. R. de la Torre Bueno; treasurer, Rowland F. McEl- 
vare; recording and corresponding secretary, Dr. J. Bequaert; librarian, A. C. Weeks; 
curator, George Franck; Publication Committee, J. R. de la Torre Bueno, editor, 
George P. Englehardt, Dr. J. Bequaert; delegate to council of New York Academy of 
Sciences, Howard Notman. 
Dr. R. R. Parker, assistant entomologist, Montana State Board of Entomology, 
in charge of tick eradication work in the Bitter Root Valley, Montana, who was to 
have sailed for Poland February 1 with an International Red Cross expedition to 
study typhus fever for a three months’ period, has been delayed and the expedition 
has sailed without him. Dr. Parker first had influenza, and complications which 
have since arisen have made a surgical operation necessary. 
Recent transfers in the Bureau of Entomology are as follows: Vernon A. Roberts 
(temporarily), to Orlando, Fla.; M. C. Lane, Berkeley, Cal., to Forest Grove, Ore.; 
B. G. Thompson, Forest Grove, Ore., to Berkeley, Cal.; A. H. Beyer, W. B. Cart¬ 
wright, T. S. Wilson, R. J. Fiske, W. G. Bemis, H. B. Carpenter, W. L. Miles, tem¬ 
porarily to pink bollworm work; Thomas H. Jones, to Fort Myers, Fla.; C. M. 
Packard, Hagerstown, Md., to Cal., B. R. Leach, Dover, Del., to Riverton, N. J.; 
William A. Hoffman, Brownwood, Tex., to Riverton, N. J. 
Mr. J. C. Bridwell, a graduate of the Iowa Agricultural College, has been appointed 
to the Bureau of Entomology as “specialist in Bruchidse and their parasites,” with 
headquarters at Honolulu. The increased plantings of the introduced algaroba tree 
throughout the Hawaiian Islands has led to the development, during the past ew 
years, of the manufacture of a valuable stock feed from the seed pods of this tree. 
Chemical analyses prove that the algaroba bean weevil (Bruchus prosopis), which 
was introduced into the islands along with its host plant, is responsible for a large 
loss in the protein content of the feed. Because of the equable climate and the ripen¬ 
ing of successive crops of pods throughout the year, the infestation of the pods on the 
tree is heavy and probably will not yield to artificial control measures. Several para¬ 
sites already present in Hawaii may be accomplishing all that parasites can in limiting 
the damage caused by the weevil. 
Lord Walsingham (Thomas de Grey) of Merton Hall, England, died December 3, 
1919. He was born July 29, 1843, and early became interested in the study of the 
Microlepidoptera in which for many years he has been considered one of the leading 
authorities of the world. His entomological activity covered more than half a 
century. He made a collecting trip to the Pacific coast of the United States in 1871- 
72, and was greatly interested in the insect fauna of America and described many 
new species. Among his many published papers are North American Tortricidae, 
British Museum, 1879; Pterophoridse of California and Oregon, London, 1880; 
