June, '21] CURRENT NOTES 313 



Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, has recently been appointed a mem- 

 ber of the Lyman Entomological Bequest Committee and attended a meeting of 

 the Committee, held at McGill University, Montreal, on February 16. 



A Smoker was held by the Florida Entomological Society on January 17th, in 

 honor of Professor Herbert Osborn, who spent a portion of the winter in Florida. 

 Upwards of fort}- members and invited guests were present, and an enjoyable even- 

 ing will be remembered by all. Dean Wilmon Newell acted as toastmaster. 



Messrs. W. R. Walton, L. H. Worthley and D. J. Caffrey of the Bureau of En- 

 tomology' visited the European corn borer infestation in western New York on March 

 21. The corn stalks and stubble have been removed and burned or crushed over 

 an area of nearly 1000 acres in this region. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips of the Bureau of Entomology attended a meeting of the Mary- 

 land State Beekeepers' Association at Baltimore, March 18, the annual meeting of 

 the West Virginia Beekeepers' Association at Charleston, March 25-26, and a spe- 

 cial meeting of the beekeepers' during Farmers' Week at the University of Maine, 

 Orono, on March 30. 



At the annual meeting of the Florida Entomological Society held at Gainesville, 

 Jan. 24, the following officers were elected for the year: President, Professor 

 J. R. Watson: Vice-President, P. W. Fattig; Secretary, Jeff Chaflfin; Treasurer, Dr. 

 E. W. Berger; Member of Executive Committee, O. F. Burger, Professor Herbert 

 Osborn was elected an honorary member of the Society. 



The following transfers have been made recently in the Bureau of Entomology: 

 K. B. McKinriey, George H. Bradley, M. T. Young, R. C. Gaines and W. R. Smith 

 have returned to the Bureau from temporary employment by the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Boatd; John B. Gill, Brown wood, Texas, temporarily to Fort Valley, Ga.; 

 C. N. Ainslie, Knoxville, Term., to Sioux City, la. 



According to Entomological News, Mr. Edward P. Van Duzee, Curator of Ento- 

 mology at the California Academy of Sciences, left San Francisco, March 30, for 

 Guaymas, Mexico, where he will join an expedition organized by the Academy for 

 the scientific exploration of Lower California and the adjacent islands. He goes 

 as entomologist of the expedition and expects to return to vSan Francisco in August. 



The principal activities in the corn borer investigations in New York State wil 

 be transferred to Silver Creek, at an early date with Mr. H. N. Bartley in charge 

 for the present. Mr. J. H. Harmon has been placed in charge of the operations 

 near Schenectady and will maintain a small force at that point for the purpose of 

 studying the insect in that vicinity. 



The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been reported: 

 C. F. Turner, formerly in charge of corn borer investigations, Schenectady, N. Y., 

 to engage in commercial fruit growing at Memphis, Tenn; G. H. Cale, apiculture, 

 to take charge of the Dadant Apiaries at Hamilton, 111. ; L. G. Gentner, truck crop 

 insect investigations, to become an instructor in entomology, Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College; F. L. O'Rourke, com borer work, Arlington, Mass. 



