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Current Notes Conducted by the Associate Editor 246 JOL:R="AL OF ECONO:\llC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 9 Current Notes Conducted by the Associate Editor Mr. G. G. Schweiss, assistant in entomology at Nevada University, resigned August 1, 1915. Mr. L. V. France has been appointed instructor in beekeeping at the University of Minnesota. Dr. W. S. Regan is instructor in entomology in the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. Dr. M. C. Tanquary has been appointed instructor and assistant in entomology Downloaded from at the Kansas College and Station. Mr. E. B. Blakeslee, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to \Vashington from his field station, Winchester, Va. Mr. B. R. Leach, Bureau of Entomology, returned to \Vashinp;ton from his head- quarters at \Vinchester, Va. http://jee.oxfordjournals.org/ Mr. D. L. Van Dine, Bureau of Entomology, visited Washington near the end of November and remained several weeks. Mr. F. L. McDonough, Bureau of Entomology, completed the determination of the boll weevil dispersion in Florida during November. Mr. L. M. Gates, field expert in entomology at the University of Nebraska, has resigned to engage in farming. by guest on June 6, 2016 Mr. A. H. Jennings, Bureau of Entomology, was absent on furlough for the month of December on account of ill health. Mr. 13.P. Young, a graduate student, has been appointed instructor in entomology at the University of Kansas. His work will be along morphological lines. Mr. P. W. Claassen, Assistant State Entomologist at the University of Kansas during the past two years, is now Research Assistant at Cornell University. Dr. Henry Fox, Bureau of Entomology, who was stationed temporarily during the summer at Tappahannock, Va., has returned to his field station at Charlottes- ville, Va. Mr. C. C. Hamilton, Bureau of Entomology, temporarily engaged at Rocky Ford, Colo., has reentered the University of Illinois, Urbana, Il1. Mr. C. P. Clausen has been appointed assistant superintendent of the State Insectary at Sacramento, Ca1., vice H. L. Viereck, resigned, and has entered upon his duties. Dr. T. J. Headlee, New Brunswick, N. J., has been appointed entomologist of the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists for the coming year by President MacRorie. Mr. V. L. Wildermuth, Bureau of Entomology, who visited Washington in the fall while engaged in the preparation of manuscript, has returned to his field station at Tempe, Ariz. February, '16] CURRENT NOTES 247 The cranberry insect laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, formerly at Pem- berton, N. J., in charge of Mr. H. B. Scammell, has been transferred to Brown's Mills, N. J. J. D. Smith and J. U. Gilmore, Bureau of Entomology, who arrived in 'Washington on November 4, were compelled to return to their homes on November 27 on account -ofillness. Mr. R. N. Wilson, Bureau of Entomology, who spent a part of November in the office at Washington preparing manuscript, has returned to his field station at Gaines- ville, Fla. At the Annual Meeting, December 10, Mr. George H. Hollister was elected presi- dent of the Connecticut Horticultural Society at Hartford. Mr. Hollister is now superintendent of I\:eney Park in Hartford. Mr. J. Turner Brakeley, a student of mosquitoes, co-worker and friend of the Downloaded from late Dr. John B. Smith, died recently at his home, Lahaway Plantations, N. J., aged sixty-eight years. Mr. Irving R. Crawford, Bureau of Entomology, temporarily attached to the range caterpillar investigations at Maxwell, N. M., has resigned from the service in order to engage in other work. http://jee.oxfordjournals.org/ :\11'.R. A. Cushman, Bureau of Entomology, of the North East, Pa., laboratory, has returned to Washington and will be engaged during the winter in monographic work on parasitic Hymenoptera. 1\1r.A. I. Fabis, Bureau of Entomology, connected with the laboratory at Monti- cello, Fla., engaged in pecan insect investigations, has returned to 'Washington for the purpose of conference and library work. According to Experiment Station Record, Mr. D. T. Fullaway resigned June 30, 1915, as entomologist of the Hawaii station to become field entomologist of the by guest on June 6, 2016 territorial board of agriculture and forestry. • The connections of temporary appointees in the Bureau of Entomology, Messrs. C. H. Alden, W. B. Cartwright, and H. L. Dozier, have been severed on account of expiration of the periods for which they were employed. In the work on the potato-tuber moth, which has been carried OIl for some time by the Bureau of Entomology, thirteen parasites and one hyperparasite have been studied by Mr. John E. Graf. Mr. Dwight lseley, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to Washington from the North East, Pa., laboratory, where special attention was given during the summer to field experiments in the control of the grape-berry moth. Mr. H. H. Kimball, Bureau of Entomology, returned to Agricultural College, Miss., from New Orleans on the 15th of November. He will make a local malaria mosquito survey of the vicinity of the College during the winter. Mr. E. H. Siegler, Bureau of Entomology, who is engaged in investigations of the codling moth in Grand Junction, Colo., has arrived in \Vashington and will be engaged during the winter in the preparation of notes, manuscripts, etc. Mr. Samuel D. Gray has been appointed professor of entomology at the Porto Rico College, vice R. I. Smith, whose resignation to take up quarantine work for the Federal Horticultural Board was announced a few months ago. 248 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 9' According to Science, a biological expedition to the island of Santo Domingo will be made next fall by Professor J. G. Needham, and Messrs. J. T. Needham, Ludlow Griscom and K. P. Schmidt of the entomological department of Cornell University. The Annual Massachusetts convention of beekeepers will be held at Amherst, Mass., March 14 to 16, inclusive. This convention will conclude the winter school of beekeeping at the Agricultural College. Professor Geo. A. Dean, of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kan., will offer the courses of instruction in entomology in the second term of the Summer Session, at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Mr. Geo. H. Vansell resigned his position on the staff of the State Entomologist of the University of Kansas, on December 1, to accept the position of assistant pro- fessor of entomology at the UniversiGY of Kentucky. Downloaded from Mr. Fred "\V.Poos, Jr., a graduate student of the University of Kansas, takes the place on the staff of the State Entomologist made vacant by the resignation of Mr. Vansell. According to Science, Assistant Professor A. L. Lovett has been made acting head http://jee.oxfordjournals.org/ of the entomological department of the Oregon Agricultural College, vice H. F. Wilson, who resigned recently to accept a professorship in entomology at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. Entomological News announces the death of Dr: Frederick W. Russell, formerly of Winchendon, Mass., on November 20, 1915, at the age of 71. Dr. Russell was particularly interested in the Lepidoptera and for years collected moths at light at his home in Winchendon. According to Science, Mr. Herbert T. Osborn, a graduate of Ohio State University by guest on June 6, 2016 in 1909, and son of Professor Herbert Osborn, has been sent by the Sugar Planters' Association of Honolulu to Formosa to secure parasites to use in Hawaii to control the cane beetle. :Mr. E. W. Geyer, Bureau of Entomology, who spent the summer at Roswell, N. M., in orchard spraying and dusting work, has returned to Washington for conference and for the completion of the report on the life history of the codling moth in New Mexico. Mr. E. R. Van Leeuwen, who has been assisting Mr. Siegler in codling moth inves- tigations at Grand Junction, Colo., has been transferred to the Bureau of Entomology field station at Benton Harbor, Mich. Mr. Van Leeuwen will shortly leave the service to resume his college studies. Mr. Henry L. Viereck, who recently resigned from the California State Insectary. for a few weeks in November was at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City; he is now connected with the Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. According to Entomological News, M. Charles Kerremans, a student of the Bupres- tidal in Europe, died October 10 at the age of 68. Mr. Kerremuns was engaged in the preparation of a monograph of this family of beetles, which had not been com- pleted at the time of his death. February, '16] CURRENT NOTES 249 Entomological News records the death, on November 16, 1915, of Professor Raphael Meldola of London, England, aged 66. Professor Meldola was the author of many entomological papers and a member of several scientific societies. In 1895 and 1896 he was president of the Entomological Society of London. According to Science, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has been removed from member- ship in the Entomological Society of France, which he has held since 1882, and in the Petrograd Entomological Society. The latter has elected in his place M. Lameere -ofBrussels, who is now working in the Paris Museum of Natural History. Mr. Curtis P. Clausen, Assistant Superintendent of the State Insectary at Sacra- mento, Cal., sailed for the Orient on January 8, for the purpose of colleding parasites and predators for use against scale insects injurious in California. His field will be Japan and Formosa, and possibly China later. Downloaded from Mr. J. W. Bailey, Bureau of Entomology, who has had experience with Mr. M. M. High in onion insect investigations at Brownsville, Tex., and who has been a collaborator during the year at St,arkvillc, Miss., entered Cornell University at the beginning of the college year, to complete his course in entomology.
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