Dec., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 493 



Notes and Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 



OF THE GLOBE. 

 MR. A. F. SHULL is now at Columbia University. 



MR. HENRY L. VIERECK is now connected with the Park-Davis Co., 

 at Detroit, Mich. 



MR. LEONARD HASEMAN has been appointed assistant in entomology 

 at Cornell University. 



MR. CHESTER JARVIS, of the Storrs' Connecticut Exp. Station is spend- 

 ing a few weeks at Cornell University. 



PROF. C. F. BAKER has returned to the United States and will teach 

 in Pomona College at Claremont, California. 



PROF. GLENN W. HERRICK, formerly of the Mississippi Agricultural 

 College, is now located at College Station, Texas. 



DR. J. A. NELSON is conducting investigations on the embryology of 

 the honey bee for the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



DR. A. FENYES, of Pasadena brought back from Cordoba, Mexico, 

 this summer a very fine series of Coleoptera, especially Aleocharinae. 



THE following species taken this year are new to me: Cyaniris ladon, 

 Thorybcs pylades, Nathalis iole, Papilio glaucus. F. M. HOLMES, Pres- 

 cott, Iowa. 



MR. A. G. HAMMAR, formerly of Ithaca, N. Y., has recently been 

 engaged in the investigation of grape insects at North East, Pa., for 

 the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. He has now returned to Washington. 



PROF. E. B. POULTON, of Oxford, England, is one of the invited speak- 

 ers at the Darwin Celebration, convocation week, in Baltimore. He will 

 also give the annual address before the Entomological Society of 

 America. 



C. F. ADAMS, A.M., M.D., Professor of Entomology, has been ap- 

 pointed Acting Dean and Director of the College of Agriculture and 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, of the University of Arkansas at 

 Fayetteville. 



C. W. HOWARD, A.B., F.E.S., has resigned his position of govern- 

 ment entomologist of the Transvaal to become Chief of the Division of 

 Entomology of the government of Portuguese East Africa. His address 

 is box 255, Lourenco Marquez, P. E. A. 



AT THE St. Louis Exposition, New Jersey had an interesting exhibi- 

 tion of mosquitoes, showing not only the different species and their 

 life-histories but also the natural enemies of mosquito life. \Yhile 1 \\.is 

 looking over this collection, two ladies approached it, one of them 

 reading aloud the placard, "New Jersey Mosquito Exhibit." They 

 stood ga/ing down into a case of large- dragon flics for a few moments, 

 and then one exclaimed, "Dear me, I'd heard of New Jersey mosqui- 

 toes, but I'd no idea they were as large as that." F. M. HOLMES, 

 Prescott, Iowa. 



