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ing a wider coordination and cooperation of the efforts of both the scientific men and 
the manufacturers of control devices. It is in this general direction of cooperative 
work that the Plant Protection Institute expects to be most active. 
The Department of Zoology and Entomology, North Carolina State College is 
making an addition to its present building. The addition consists of two parts, a 
service building and an insectary. The service building will contain an underground 
pit for the study of subterranean insects, a potting room, a small apiculture laboratory 
and a laboratory for advanced students in entomology. The insectary is of modified 
greenhouse construction with solid roof to obstruct the direct rays of the sun. It is 
divided into three sections, two of which are enclosed by glass and heated, and one 
enclosed by screening and not heated. 
Five field parties have been organized for the spruce budworm investigations in 
New Brunswick; these will be in charge of Messrs. Gorham, Kinghorn, Pulling, 
Simpson and Dunn. Professor Pulling is professor of Forestry at the University of 
New Brunswick and Mr. Kinghorn has been transferred to this survey by the Pro¬ 
vincial Crown Lands Department. Four parties will proceed to Nictau Lake where 
a headquarters camp will be erected. The fifth party will use Juniper as their 
headquarters. Mr. Dustan has started a series of experiments on the natural control 
of the green apple bug at Wolfville, N. S. 
On May 24 an amendment to the regulations under the Canadian Destructive 
Insect and Pest Act was passed by Order in Council prohibiting the importation of 
corn and broom corn, celery, green beans, beets, spinach, rhubarb, oat and rye straw, 
cut flowers of chrysanthemums, asters, cosmos, zinnias, hollyhocks, gladiolus and 
dahlias from the towns infested with the European Corn Borer in the states of Massa¬ 
chusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania, unless the same are accom¬ 
panied by a certificate of inspection issued by the Federal Horticultural Board. 
The amendment dealing with this pest and passed May 19, 1919, is rescinded. 
Professor W. B. Herms of the University of California has established a temporary 
summer laboratory in the Sacramento Valley near Vina, Tehama County, Cal., for 
the purpose of investigating certain malaria-mosquito problems in that vicinity, 
notably factors governing breeding habits of anophelines, their egg laying habits and 
per cent of infection. Three species of anophelines are present; namely, A. occident- 
alis (western variety of A. quadrimaculatus) A. punctipennis and A. pseudopuncti- 
pennis together with a prevalence of malaria. Collaborating with Professor Herms 
is Professor S. B. Freeborn, also of the University of California and a small group of 
students. The present intensive investigation follows a general malaria-mosquito 
survey of California which was completed last summer. 
The National Research Council, a cooperative organization of leading scientific 
and technical men of the country for the promotion of scientific research and the 
application and dissemination of scientific knowledge for the benefit of the national 
welfare, has elected the following officers for the year beginning July 1, 1920:— 
Chairman, H. A. Bumstead, professor of Physics and Director of the Sloane Physical 
Laboratory, Yale University; First Vice-Chairman, C. D. Walcott, president of the 
National Academy of Sciences and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Second 
Vice-Chairman, Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation, 
New York; Third Vice-Chairman, R. A. Millikan, professor of Physics, University of 
Chicago; Permanent Secretary, Vernon Kellogg, professor of Biology, Stanford 
University; Treasurer, F. L. Ransome, treasurer of the National Academy of 
Sciences. The Council was organized in 1916 under the auspices of the National 
Academy of Sciences to mobilize the scientific resources of America for work on war 
problems, and reorganized in 1918 by an executive order of the president on a 
