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economic subject by dividing its subject matter between “parasitology” and 
“phytopathology. ” 
According to Entomological News, Mr. Harry B. Weiss, on May 1, was appointed 
chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Inspection, New Jersey Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Franklin Dye. 
Mr. Irving W. Davis, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, who for nearly 
seven years has served as assistant entomologist and deputy in charge of gipsy and 
brown-tail moth work in Connecticut, resigned June 8, to enter the banking business. 
He will remain in Danielson, Conn., wdiere he has had headquarters for four years. 
According to Science, Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, curator of Entomology, in the Cali¬ 
fornia Academy of Sciences and Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, of the University of California, 
who attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science in Seattle, will remain for a month in the state of 
Washington for field work. Mr. Van Duzee, who specializes in the Hemiptera, has 
in his collection and that of the California Academy of Sciences, probably the most 
representative collection of Hemiptera in America. Dr. Van Dyke will collect Cole- 
optera in which he is a specialist. 
The following appointments have been made to the staff of the Entomological 
Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture: Mr. H. W. Crosbie, temporary sea¬ 
sonal assistant, Division of Forest Insects from May 15; Mr. J. D. MacFarlane, 
temporary seasonal assistant, Division of Forest Insects, from May 25; Professor A. 
V. S. Pulling, seasonal entomologist, Natural Control Investigations from May 15; 
Mr. G. M. McFarlane, temporary Junior Entomologist at Saskatoon, Sask., from 
May 1; Mr. H. A. Robertson, temporary Junior Entomologist at Treesbank, Man., 
from May 15; Miss A. C. Healey, temporary clerk-stenographer at Vernon, B. C., 
from May 15. Messrs. Crosbie, MacFarlane and Pulling will be engaged on the 
spruce budworm investigations with headquarters at Fredericton, N. B. 
According to Science, the official delegates to the Imperial Entomological Confer¬ 
ence which opened in London, June 1, were as follows:—Canada and South Africa, 
Mr. C. P. Lounsbury; Australia, Professor R. D. Watt; New Zealand, Dr. R. J. 
Tillyard; India, Mr. C. F. C. Beeson; Queensland, Mr. F. Balfour Browne; British 
Guiana, Mr. G. E. Bodkin; Ceylon, Mr. F. A. Stockdale; East Africa Protectorate, 
Mr. T. J. Anderson; Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements, Mr. P. B. 
Richards; Gold Coast, Mr. W. H. Patterson; Imperial Department of Agriculture 
for the West Indies and Leeward Islands, Mr. H. A. Ballou; Mauritius, Mr. G. A. 
Auchinleck; Northern Rhodesia, Mr. R. W. Jack; Seychelles, Dr. J. B. Addison; 
Sierra Leone, Mr. H. Waterland; Sudan, Mr. H. H. King; Trinidad, Mr. F. W. 
Ulrich, and Uganda, Mr. C. C. Gowdey. 
With the advice and assistance of the National Research Council, a cooperative 
body of scientific experts on injurious insects and plant diseases and of manufacturers 
of insecticides, fungicides and general chemicals and apparatus used in fighting the 
enemies of field and orchard crops, has just been organized under the name of the 
Plant Protection Institute. The purpose of the institute is to promote the general 
welfare by supporting and directing scientific research on the pests of crops, shade 
trees and ornamental plants, and on the methods of their control, and by furthering 
cooperation between the scientific investigators and the manufacturers of chemicals 
and appliances, especially for the sake of effecting standardization and economy in 
the production and use of the means of fighting pests. Also it expects to aid in the 
dissemination of scientifically correct information regarding the control of injurious 
insects and plant diseases. Much excellent work along this line is now being done by 
government and state organizations, but a further advance can be made by introduc- 
