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sure of the next Congress: 
Asbury F., Lever, Chairman, South Carolina; Gordon Lee, Georgia; 
Kiel S. Candler, jr. ‘ Mississippi; J. Thomas Heflin, Alabama; 
es T. McDermott, Illinois; Jchn A, Maguire, Nebraska ; Thonas L, 
Ys Missouri; James Young, Texas; H. M. Jacoway, Arkansas; Ralph 
Movs, Indiana; John V. Lesher, Pennsylvania; Michael K. Reilly, 
consin; Benjamin i, Taylor, New York; Dudley Doolittle, Kansas. 
The Eastman Kodak Co, list a "Crown Tilting Tripod Top" at 
4 Qucting from the catalogue: "By the aid of this attachment 
eeeer may be tilted at any angle upward or downward, and also 
rersed for verticle pictures without changing the back or removing 
from the triped." In entomological work it will be a very useful 
aratus, especially in field work, in photographing insects and 
ir injuries directly from above and for photographing at at angles 
wesible to obtain by the use of the tripod alone. For an illustra- 
Dr of the apparatus see page 89 of "Hastman Professional Photograph- 
ie. 2a Materials," a catulogue issued by the Eastman Kodak 
Teed. Ls 
A convenient coritainer for slide boxes will be made to order by 
} Payette, Ind. firm according to the following specifications, 
%o cents each or $5 per dozen. The outside measurements of the 
which will be made of linden, are 4-3/4 by 10-3/4 inches and 
Ve inches high. Its construction is similar to that of a card 
@x box, having » hinged tep with a hook lock on the front, and it 
11 hold seven wooden slide boxes of 25-slide capacity. Such a box 
lil be useful in sending large slide cullections from station to 
Btion; permit « satisfactory and uniform arrangement cf the material; 
Systematic collections will permit rearrangement, edditions, eétc., 
“be made without necessitating a complete rearrangement of slides; 
il keep the boxes from dust; and as the iilds of the individual box- 
@re never very secure and are easily overturned, the container will 
Batily reduce chances of "pieing" the slides. eget reas Ab 
The first number of the Journal of Agricultural Research, a new 
plication of the Department of Agriculture, will appear October 10. 
“Contains a contribution from the section of Cereal and F-rage Insect 
vestigations, entitled, "The Serpentine Leaf Miner," (Agromyza pusil- 
Meig.) 
