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This volume, the prodtict of ten experts in their respective lines should be in the 

 library of ever}' economic Entomologist and will be found an almost invaluable 

 addition to Medical Libraries not only in this country but throughout the world. 



E. P. F. 



Current Notes 



Dr. Clarence H. Kennedy has been appointed instructor in entomology at the 

 University of Tennessee. 



Miss Florence Defiel has recently been appointed instructor in entomology at the 

 Univeristy of Minnesota. 



Professor Herbert Osborn of the Ohio State University, planned to spend most 

 of the winter in Florida. 



Mr. Otis Wade, assistant professor of entomology at the Oklahoma College and 

 Station, resigned September 30, 1920. 



Dr. L. O. Howard addressed the Washington Acadeniy of Sciences, February 17, 

 on "How the Government is Fighting Insects." 



Mr. G. H. Gale, extension apiculturist of the Bureau of Entomology, has accepted 

 a position with Dadant and Sons, Hamilton, 111. 



Mr. C. S. Rude has been appointed assistant entomologist at the Texas Station in 

 foul brood inspection, vice W. E. Jackson resigned. 



The Kansas State Beekeepers' Association held its 20th annual meeting at the 

 Chamber of Commerce, Topeka, Kan . , February 4 and 5, 1921. 



The 32d annual meeting of the California State Beekeepers' Association was 

 held at Oakland, Calif., March 2-5. There was a large attendance. 



The West Virginia Beekeepers' Association held a meeting at Charleston, 

 W. Va., March 25-26, and Mr. George S. Demuth was expected to attend. 



Doctor F. E. Lutz, former curator of invertebrates, has recently been made 

 curator of entomology in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



Mr. Dwight M. DeLong, Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Plant Industry, Harris- 

 burg, Pa., left about the middle of March for a month's collecting in the Florida 

 Everglades. 



Mr. Herbert F. Schwarz has been appointed research associate in entomology in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and will work in the 

 Hymenoptera. 



Doctor A. E. Cameron, Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agri- 

 culture, resigned October 1, 1920, to accept the jjrofessorship of zoology at the Uni- 

 versity of Saskatchewan. 



Mr. I. M. Hawley has accepted, effective July I, the professorship of zoology and 

 entomology in the Utah Agricultural CoU-gc and the position of entomologist of 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station. 



According to Science, the department of biology of McDonald College, has been 

 divided into two departments; botany, and entomology and zoology. The latter 

 is in charge of Professor William Lochhead. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada, has recently been 

 appointed a member of the Advisory Board on Wild Life Protection, as a representa- 

 tive of the Canadian Department of Agriculture. 



