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some new lines of disease investigation. Dr. McCray received the degree of doctor of medicine 
from George Washington University in June. 
There will be a conference of apiary inspectors of the Middle West at Keokuk, lowa, on 
September 8. On the day preceding there will be a beekeepers’ field meeting at the apiary of 
Mr. C. P. Dadant, editor American Bee Journal, across the river at Hamilton, Ill. These two 
meetings will bring together beekeepers from all near-by States. 
A circuit of beekeepers’ meetings is to be held in the Middle West in December, 10 associ- 
ations meeting in succession. The object of this plan is to enable speakers and exhibitors to 
attend with the minimum expense and time. Meetings will be held in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois (2), 
Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
F. M. Wesster, In Charge. 
Mr. C. L. Scott, of the Brownsville, Tex., laboratory, is investigating the spread of the fall 
army worm (Laphygma frugiperda) in Texas and Louisiana. 
Mr. Eric S. Cogan, of British South Africa, is employed as a temporary assistant and has 
been assigned to the Charleston, Mo., laboratory. : 
Excellent success has been reported from the use of the poisoned bran bait against grass- 
hoppers from the West Springfield, Mass., laboratory, where large areas along the Merrimac 
and Connecticut Rivers have been cleared of grasshoppers, 95 per cent having been killed at 
an expense of from 7 to 10 cents per acre. Equally good results have been secured in California 
by Mr. Urbahns, of the Pasadena laboratory, and also equally satisfactory results have been 
obtained at Fellsmere, Fla., by Mr. R. N. Wilson, of the Gainesville, Fla., laboratory. These 
three separate results were obtained from work carried out against entirely different species. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L. QuaintTance, In Charge. 
Dr. A. L. Quaintance recently visited field laboratories at Winchester, Va., North East, 
Pa., and Benton Harbor, Mich., for the purpose of conferring with men in charge of stations 
regarding work under way and contemplated. | 
Mr. V. G. Stevens, of Leland Stanford Junior University, Cal., was appointed as a field 
assistant for the purpose of assisting Mr. W. M. Davidson at Walnut Creek, Cal., in investiga- 
tions of the grape Phylloxera. 
Mr. Dwight Isely, working on grape insects at North East, Pa., is visiting the Benton 
Harbor, Mich., laboratory for the purpose of making observations on the grape-berry moth in 
that region. Upon completion of his investigation he will return to his headquarters at North 
East, Pa. 
FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. D. Horxins, In Charge. 
Dr. Hopkins’s long official title of Entomological Assistant in Charge of Forest Insect 
Investigations has been changed to the more appropriate title of Forest Entomologist. 
Likewise the titles of H. E. Burke, J. M. Miller, Josef Brunner, W. D. Edmonston, T. E. 
Snyder, F. C. Craighead, and A. B. Champlain are now changed to read Assistant in Forest 
Entomology. 
Similarly, the official titles of S. A. Rohwer, W. S. Fisher, Carl Heinrich, C. T. Greene, and 
A. G, Béving were changed to Specialist on Forest Hymenoptera, Forest Coleoptera, Forest 
Lepidoptera, Forest Diptera, and coleopterous larve, respectively. 
