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caught by Dr. Westcott. The collection of Mexican and South American butterflies 
is particularly interesting. 
A plan for closer affiliation between the College of Agriculture of Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity, and the Agricultural Experiment Station has been put into effect. Professor 
Herbert Osborn, of the university has been made honorary associate entomologist of 
the station and Professor H. A. Gossard, chief entomologist of the station has been 
appointed non-resident professor of entomology in the college. 
Recent appointments to the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of 
Agriculture, are announced as follows:—Mr. Eric Hearle, assistant entomologist, 
Mission, B. C.; Mr. V. B. Durling, temporary junior entomologist, Annapolis 
laboratory; Mr. Andrew Galbraith, temporary superintendent of fumigation, Windsor, 
Ont.; Miss M. McNair, temporary junior clerk-stenographer, Fredericton Laboratory. 
Dr. E. G. Titus, for three and one-half years technologist in charge of the inter¬ 
mountain section, sugar plant investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, and formerly 
entomologist of the Utah Experiment Station, has recently accepted a position as 
director of agricultural research of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., with headquarters at 
Salt Lake City, Utah. His efforts will be engaged along the lines of seed breeding, 
pest control and general improvements in the growing and handling of sugar beets. 
Officers of the Entomological Society of America were elected at the St. Louis 
meeting as follows: President, L. O. Howard; First Vice-President, F. E. Lutz; 
Second Vice-President, Edith M. Patch; Secretary-Treasurer, J. M. Aldrich. Addi¬ 
tional members Executive Committee: W. S. Marshall, G. A. Dean, J. W. Folsom, 
G. W. Herrick. Committee on Nomenclature: E. P. Felt, T. D. A. Cockerell, 
Nathan Banks. Committee on Entomology in the National Museum: C. W. John¬ 
son, Herbert Osborn, Wm. Barnes, W. M. Wheeler, J. G. Needham. 
A conference was held at the Japanese beetle laboratory, Riverton, N. J., May 14, 
to consider certain phases of the quarantine regulations to prevent the spread of the 
Japanese beetle. There were present the following entomologists and officials en¬ 
gaged in pest control from New Jersey and surrounding states and the United States 
Bureau of Entomology:—Dr. A. L. Quaintance, Washington, D. C.; Professor E. N. 
Cory, College Park, Md.; Professor J. G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa.; Mr. Wesley Webb, 
Dover, Del.; Dr. G. G. Atwood, Albany, N. Y.; Dr. W. E. Britton, New Haven, 
Conn.; Dr. T. J. Headlee, Messrs. John J. Davis, C. H. Hadley, Harry Weiss, C. W. 
Stockwell and other assistants, New Jersey. 
A change has been made recently in the plant quarantine service of Porto Rico. 
Mr. E. G. Smyth, entomologist of the Insular Experiment Station and the island 
Department of Agriculture, who has been in charge of quarantine work for the past 
three years, has given up the work, and a technical board of plant quarantine has 
been appointed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor of the Island, which 
is empowered to determine procedure as to quarantine matters. The board consists 
of four members: the director, the entomologist and the pathologist of the experiment 
station at Rio Piedras, and the chief quarantine inspector in San Juan. 
Entomological workers in Louisiana have formed an organization to be known as 
the Louisiana Entomological Society. The domicile of the society will be the Natural 
History Building of the Louisiana State Museum, Jackson Square, New Orleans. 
The first president is Mr. Ed. Foster, State Nursery Inspector, who was largely instru¬ 
mental in bringing the members together. Prof. O. W. Rosewall, professor of 
entomology at the Louisiana State University, has been elected vice-president, and 
T. E. Holloway, is secretary-treasurer. Meetings will be held on the first Fridays of 
