pa St 
Parasites of the pink bollworm.--Sufficient numbers of the para— 
site Exeristes roborator Foh. were bred up in the laboratory at Pre- 
eidio. Tex. , by GW; Noble and §. L. Calhoun to make several small 
relenses in October. Further field recoveries of Microbracon brevi- 
cornis show that at least two generations bred in the field this fall. 

IFSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Carlos Findlay, thb 
Cuban scientist whose keen powers of observation and deductive abil- 
of yellow fever and thus greatly hasten the lifting of the burden of 
that terrible scourge of the New World, was commemorated by the Pan > 
American Medical Society in the Cuban Embassy on December 3. Dr. L.-O. 
Howerd, who was a friend of Doctor Findlay, was invited to speak on 
Importance to Mankind of the Discovery of the Trensmission of Disease 
by Insects. General Kean, an associate of Doctor Findlay anc General 
Gorgas in the fight against yellow fever in Cuba; Colonel Brooke, re- 
presenting Doctor Patterson, Surjzeon of the Army; and several others 
spoke, r. Hugh Cummings, Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service, 
presided. Dr. D. E. Findlay, son of Dr. Carlos Findlay anc a member 
of the Cuban cabinet, was present. 
The meetings of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and 
National Malaria Committee were held in conjunction with that of the 
Southern Medical Society in Richmond, Va., on November 14 to 15. They 
were well attended and numerous interesting entomological papers were 
presented, although very few entomologists were present. F.C. Bishopp 
was chosen vice chairman of the National Malaria Committee, of which 
L. O. Howard has been Honorary Chairman for a number of years. 
ct.--Arrangenents hove been 
made for the use of Federal funds for construction of:crainage ditches 
and tidal gates in the salt marshes of Georgia and South Carolina, for 
the purpose of reducing the breeding of sand flies. This work will also 
diminish the breeding of salt-marsh mosquitoes and in addition will re- 
claim many small areas of lan®. from the marshes. W. HE. Dove reports 
hat considerable interest is being taken in this program and that num 
erous visitors have been conducted to the place where the preliminary 
work is going on. He states that they are favored with the splendid 
cooperation of M. S. Yeomans, State entomolosist of Georgia, and of in-= 
fluential residents of Savannah. 
Control of sand flies as a relief projec 

Surgical use of blowfly massots.--The use of sterile maggots in 
the treatment of infected wounds coutinues to srow and there are now 
about 1,000 surgeons using this method of treatment. Shipment of mage 
gots by mail is a common procedure and so far this has been done by 
packing bottles of masyzots next to ice, which is an expensive method. 
