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Current Notes 



Conducted by Associate Editor 



The Illinois State Beekeepers Association held its annual meeting at the Leland 

 Hotel, Springfield, on December 14 and 15. 



The Tennessee State Beekeepers Association held its annual convention at 

 Xash\nlle, Tennessee, on January 27, 1921. 



Dr. J. M. Aldrich was elected president of the Entomological Society of America 

 at the Chicago meeting. 



The annual meeting of the Minnesota State Beekeepers Association was held at 

 Minneapolis on December 7 and 8. 



Mr. H. P. K. Agersborg has been appointed assistant in zoology and parasitology 

 at the University of Wyoming. 



Doctor S. B. Fracker, acting State Entomologist of Wisconsin, was appointed State 

 Entomologist, to take effect July 1, 1920. 



Mr. R. D. Olmstead, assistant in entomology at the New York (Geneva) Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, resigned October 1st, 1920. 



The Thirty-second annual meeting of the California State Beekeepers Association 

 will be held at Oakland, March 1-4, 1921. 



Professor W. C. O'Kane is chairman of the Crop Protection Institute organized 

 recently under the auspices of the National Research Council. 



The annual meeting of the Chicago- Northwestern Beekeepers Association was held 

 in the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, December 6 and 7. 



Mr. J. C. Holton, formerly with the State Plant Board of Florida, is now in charge 

 of the sweet potato inspection service in Mississippi. 



Mr. George F. Arnold has resigned his position with the Federal Horticultural 

 Board to accept a position as assistant entomologist with the State Plant Board of 

 Mississippi. 



Doctor T. J. Headlee gave an address on Mosquito Control at a luncheon of the 

 Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Taft, New Haven, Connecticut, December 18, 1920. 



Mr. J. G. Hester has resigned his position with the Federal Horticultural Board 

 to accept a position as assistant entomologist with the State Plant Board of Missis- 

 sippi. 



Announcement was made of a joint meeting of the Washington State Beekeepers 

 Association and the Inland Empire Beekeepers Association, held at Spokane, Wash- 

 ington, December 14, 15 and 16. 



Mr. H. L. Dozicr spent the past year in the Graduate School of Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, and is now assistant entomologist for the vState Plant Board of Mississippi. 



Doctor F. C. Craighead of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C, has been 

 appointed entomologist in the Division of Forest Insects, Entomological Branch, 

 Canadain Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. E. W. Stafford, Assistant Professor of Zoology and Entomologj' in the Missis- 

 sippi A. & M. College, was in the Graduate School of Cornell University, during the 

 pa,st summer. 



