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Current Notes 



Dr. A. E. Cameron who resigned from the Entomological Branch, Canadian 

 Department of Agriculture, in October 1920, has been re-appointed as temporary 

 entomologist for the present season, and will have charge of a laboratory at Saskatoon, 

 Saskatchewan. 



An important meeting of official entomologists of the Federal and Western pro- 

 vincial Governments, Dominion of Canada, was held at Regina, April 12. Mr. 

 Norman Criddle of Treesbank was elected chariman. Representatives were ptesent 

 from Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota. 



Prof. Z. P. Metcalf of the North Carolina State College and Experiment Station, 

 was the retiring president of the North Carolina Academy of Science and gave "The 

 Age of Insects" as his presidential address at the recent annual meeting. 



Mr. L. S. McLaine, Chief of the Division of Foreign Pests Suppression, Entomologi- 

 cal Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, sailed from Montreal on May 6, to 

 visit England, France, Holland and Belgium. While there he will visit the larger 

 nurseries and confer with the respective government officials regarding nursery 

 nspection work. 



According to Science, George M. Wheeler Ph.D. (1921) Bussey Institution, has 

 been appointed instructor in Entomology, and William E. Greenleaf, instructor 

 in Zoology, in the Zoology department, Syracuse University. 



Mr. C. H. Brannon, a graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College has been appointed field assistant in the U. S. Bureau of Entomology for 

 duty at Fort Valley, Georgia, in connection with curculio work. 



Resignations from the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, recently announced, are as 

 follows:- C. K. Fisher, Wichita, Kans, to enter the States Relations Service in Vir- 

 ginia; R. H. Van Zwaluwenburg, Hagerstown, Md., to enter commercial Entomology 

 in Mexico. 



Mr. John B. Gill of the U. S. Btireauof Entomologj^ has returned to his permanent 

 station at Brownwood, Texas, after spending five months at the U. S. Peach Insect 

 Laborator}', Fort Valley, Ga., assisting with extensive dusting and spraying ex- 

 periments. 



According to Science, Professor G. F. Ferris of Leland Stanford University, 

 California, is spending the summer collecting and studying scale insects in Texas, in 

 co-operation with the Division of Entomology of the Texas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



Mr. Burl A. Slocum has been appointed Bee Specialist in the State of Washington. 

 His time will be equally divided between the Division of Apiculture under Dr. A. L. 

 Melander, and the Extension Service under Dr. vS. B. Nelson. Mr. Slocum is a 

 graduate of the University of Wisconsin in the Beekeeping course. 



