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in the entomological journals, mostly dealing with the Hymenoptera, in which he 
described several new species. 
Mr. Mitchell Carroll, assistant in entomology, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 
Station, has resigned to accept a professorship at a college in Pennsylvania. 
According to Science , Professor William J. Crozier of the University of Chicago 
has been appointed professor of zoology and public health at Rutgers College, New 
Brunswick, N. J. 
Mr. Herbert J. Pack has been appointed instructor in zoology and assistant ento¬ 
mologist at the Utah College and Station, vice Charles J. Sorenson, resigned to engage 
in commercial work. 
Mr. George S. Demuth, for several years connected with the Bureau of Entomology, 
Division of Apiculture, will soon relinquish government work to become editor-in¬ 
charge of Gleanings in Bee Culture. 
According to Experiment Station Record, Professor C. E. Sanborn, entomologist of 
the Oklahoma College and Station, is to spend the coming year in California on special 
entomological investigations. 
Mr. George B. Pearson, a graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical 
College, has been appointed field assistant in the Bureau of Entomology with head¬ 
quarters at West Lafayette, Ind. 
Mr. Arthur Gibson, dominion entomologist, Ottawa, Canada, spent a few days at 
Boston and vicinity in September, visiting the various laboratories maintained by 
the United States Bureau of Entomology. 
Professor W. C. O’Kane has been elected president of the Faculty Science Club of 
the New Hampshire College. Professor O’Kane recently met with an accident in 
which he lost the end of one of his fingers. 
According to Science, Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University of Colorado, 
has been elected an honorary fellow of the American Museum of Natural History, in 
recognition of his distinguished services to science. 
The fortieth annual convention of the Ontario Beekeepers’ Association was held 
at the Agricultural College, Guelph, December 1-3. At this time will be formally 
opened the new apicultural building, which has been pronounced the finest one in 
North America. 
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Dr. Joseph L. Hancock, of Chicago, an authority on the grouse locusts (Tettiginse) 
on account of increased medical responsibilities has given up his studies in the Orthop- 
tera and his collection has been added to the Hebard collection at the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
Dr. T. J. Headlee spent two days in^Connecticut, October 20 and 21, examining 
the equipment and methods of gipsy moth work. He gave a brief address before 
the Windham County Medical Association at Danielson, Conn., October 21, and also 
addressed the Connecticut Public Health Association at Hartford, Conn., November 
11, both on the subject of mosquito elimination. 
A hearing on extending the territory covered by the Japanese beetle quarantine 
was held before the Federal Horticultural Board in Washington, September 10, 
followed by a conference of entomologists concerning the recently discovered gipsy 
moth infestations in New Jersey and New York. According to the Florists’ Exchange, 
the following entomologists were present: E. N. Corey, Maryland; L. A. Stearns, 
Virginia; E. C. Cotton, Ohio; C. R. Crosby, George G. Atwood, New York; T. J. 
