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Sugar Planters’ Association has provided four assistants to accompany Mr. Barber 
to Cuba this year. This insures an increased supply of the parasites for colonization 
in the Louisiana cane fields. 
A number of shipments of nursery fruit stocks received from France this spring 
and consigned to different points in the United States and Canada, have been found 
infested with the brown-tail moth. 
Mr. C. C. Hamilton, Columbia, Mo., has recently accepted a position as assistant 
entomologist at the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. He will be engaged 
in research on the Adams fund basis. 
The Bureau of Entomology has discontinued its laboratory maintained at Seaview, 
Wash., in cooperation with Washington Agricultural College, where important prob¬ 
lems relative to Cranberry insects have been solved. 
Professor R. C. Osburn and Dr. C. H. Kennedy of Ohio State University are mem¬ 
bers of the staff of the Lake Laboratory, which is now permanently located at Put¬ 
in-Bay on Lake Erie, and its summer session will open on June 21 and close August 1. 
Mr. E. R. Van Leeuwen of the Bureau of Entomology, who has been temporarily 
in Washington, has recently been placed in charge of the Bureau’s laboratory at 
Cornelia, Ga., where life history studies of the codling moth in that region will be 
made. 
Dr. H. M. Parshley of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., will again conduct 
field courses during July and August, at the thirty-first session of the Biological 
Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Cold Spring Harbor, 
Long Island, N. Y. 
Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, Professor of Entomology, Ontario Agricultural College, 
Guelph, Ontario, was elected a Fellow Emeritus “in recognition of his long and 
faithful membership,” by the Council at the St. Louis meeting of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Mr. Claude Wakeland, Deputy State Entomologist of Colorado in charge of alfalfa 
weevil investigation during the three years 1917-19, has accepted the position of 
State Extension Entomologist with the University of Idaho. Mr. Wakeland’s 
permanent headquarters will be at Boise, Idaho. 
Messrs. J. W. Sauer and J. M. Reilly, entomological inspectors in Texas, and W. M. 
Mingee, W. H. Carpenter, and L. M. Pritchard, field assistants in insect control, 
have severed their connection with the Bureau of Entomology. The last three will 
be connected with the Mississippi State Plant Board. 
Mr. E. H. Strickland, of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of 
Agriculture, recently visited St. Paul and Minneapolis to confer regarding stored 
product insects, and also arranged cooperative experiments with the members of the 
staff of the University of Minnesota on the control of cutworms. 
Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, Stanford University, California, has been elected a 
member of the American Philosophical Society. According to “ Science ” Professor 
Kellogg recently addressed the New York Alumni Society of the Phi Beta Kappa, 
and also the Washington Academy of Sciences, on “Europe’s Food in War and 
Armistice.” 
The State College of Washington has recently acquired the entire collection of Dr 
Oliver S. Westcott, the veteran entomologist of Chicago, who died last July. Dr 
Westcott for sixty-eight years was actively engaged in amassing this collection. It 
contains between forty and forty-five thousand mounted specimens. The insects 
of his earlier years were determined by such specialists as Ashmead, Edwards, Leconte, 
Horn, Ulke, and Uhler. Every state in the Union is represented by insects personally 
