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two functions, censorship and publicity concerning the conduct of public business, 
(The Official Bulletin is issued every weekday and may be hed on application to 
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$5.00; six months, $3.00.) 
APPLICATION OF PHENOLOGICAL DATA TO INSECT EMERGENCE AND CROP PLANTING. 
One of the salient features of the initial number of the Emergency Entomo- 
logical Service issued May 1, is covered under the title “Bioclimatic Law as 
Applied to the Hessian Fly", by A, D. Hopkins, Forest Entomologist, and is the 
first direct effort in the application of phenological data to insect emergence 
THE ZOOLOGICAL RECORD SUSPENDS PUBLICATION. 
. The Bureau of Entomology has received word that the Zoological Record, 
‘Regent’s Park, London, N. W., England, has temporarily suspended publication, 
Owing to the war. 
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AS $5.00 A MONTH! THE QUESTION IS NOT " CAN I AFFORD TO BUY A LIB- 
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SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE NAMES TWO ASSISTANTS. 
The Department of Agriculture issues the following: 
"Dr. B. T. Galloway has been appointed Assistant to the Secretary of Agri- 
culture for an indefinite period. His duties are primarily to act as the repre- 
‘Sentative of the Department of Agriculture with representatives of other depart- 
“ments in matters connected with the Council of National Defense. 
‘President R. A. Pearson, of the Iowa State College of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, also 
has been appointed Assistant to the Secretary. He will give the Secretary the 
benefit of his advice and sssistance for an indefinite period. He will especially 
assist the department in keeping in touch with the State boards of food production 
and conservation." (Off. Bull. May 14.) 

VISITORS TO THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY DURING MAY. 
Dr. Durton N. Gates, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. 
A. F. Burgess, In Charge of Moth Work, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 
W. M. Mann, of Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Mass., stopped over in Wash- 
ington, on his way to the Bahamas. He will spend a month on Andros Island making 
collections to augment his insect material. 
Fred Muir, Assistant Entomologist of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Experiment 
Station, Honolulu, Hawaii, has arrived in Washington. He will spend about one week 
studying types of Hemiptera in the Bureau collection. 
oD. MM Rogers, Gipsy Moth Investigations, Boston, Mass. 
WW. F, Fiske, late of the Bureau of Entomology who has recently returned from 
the British service in Africa. 
