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at Pullman, Washington, and his library was sold to John Sherman, Jr., Mount 
Vernon, N. Y. Dr. Wescott published several notes in Entomological News. 
Recent appointments to the U. S. Bureau of Entomology have been announced as 
follows:—Cereal and forage crop insect investigations, Herbert Walkden, Wichita, 
Kans.; Kenneth M. King, Charlottesville, Va.; Ralph A. Blanchard, West Lafayette, 
Ind.; H. N. Bartley, E. G. Brewer, J. W. Enright, T. R. Richardson, Saul Phillips; 
Claude E. Towle, L. B. Sanderson, Dexter H. Craig, Arlington, Mass.; E. M. Searls, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
Mr. D. B. Young, assistant state entomologist of New York, has been temporarily 
detailed in charge of special field investigations of the European corn borer and 
study of control methods provided for in a supply bill item of $5,000 appropriated by 
the New York State Legislature. The work will be in cooperation with and supple¬ 
mental to the investigations being conducted at the U. S. Bureau of Entomology 
corn borer laboratory located at Schenectady, N. Y. 
According to Science , Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Dean of Bussey Institution of Harvard 
University, delivered an address at Syracuse University, May 6, under the auspices 
of the Society of Sigma Xi. The address was on “Worm-lions, Ant-lions and some 
Eighteenth-Century Entomologists,” and covered observations made by Reaumur 
and other early naturalists upon the habits of the worm-lion and ant-lion, and included 
the studies of the lecturer upon the structure and behavior of the worm-lions of 
California. 
The following appointments to the entomological branch, Canada Department of 
Agriculture, have been announced: Mr. H. G. Crawford, entomologist, field crop and 
garden insects, Ottawa; temporary seasonal assistants, Mr. E. P. Donat, Annapolis, 
N. S.; Mr. E. P. Venables, Vernon, B. C.; Mr. R. Glendenning, Agassiz, B. C.; 
Mr. J. G. Arnason, Lethbridge, Alta.; Mr. A. M. Crawford, Mission, B. C.; Mr. 
R. N. Bissonnette, Ottawa; Mr. J. A. Clock has been appointed temporary junior 
entomologist at Strathroy, Ont., and Mr. V. C. Smith, temporary messenger at 
Ottawa. 
Dr. W. M. Mann, of the Bureau of Entomology, has just returned from a month’s 
trip of exploration in Spanish Honduras, where he went to obtain a first-hand knowl¬ 
edge of the fruit-fly and other insect pest conditions in that country on account of the 
active commerce in fruits and other products, which is now going on between Spanish 
Honduras and the United States, principally through the port of New Orleans. Some 
six vessels arrive at New Orleans weekly from Spanish Honduras, bringing bananas, 
chiefly, but also citrus fruit, egg-plant, and miscellaneous fruits. Dr. Mann has al¬ 
ready bred out no less than four different species of fruit flies from material collected, 
and in addition to that has notes and specimens illustrating a good many other fruit 
insects of greater or lesser importance. 
Mr. U. C. Loftin, of the Bureau of Entomology, was commissioned early in the year, 
to make an investigation of the insect pests of cotton in Porto Rico, more particularly 
to determine if it is advisable to permit Porto Rican cotton seed to enter the United 
States for milling. In the course of this work he also investigated the cotton situation 
in San Domingo, at the request of the San Domingo government. No pink bollworm 
was found either in Porto Rico or in San Domingo, but a large list of other cotton 
insects, most of them well-known enemies of this plant were collected. A cotton 
blister mite, was found, which is not known to occur in the United States; and the 
occurrence also of certain cotton diseases in the Island, notably an internal boll 
disease, which seems to be widely distributed through the West Indies and prob- 
