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Current Notes 



The annual meeting of the Alabama State Beekeepers Association was scheduled to 

 be held at Montogomery on September 22. 



Mr. W. E. Hoffman has been appointed instructor in economic entomology at the 

 University of Minnesota, vice W. E. Cook, resigned. 



The department of biology at Macdonald College has been divided, Professor 

 William Lochhead retaining charge of the department of entomology and zoology. 



The appropriation for the control of bee diseases in Florida is $10,000.00, this being 

 exactly double the amount available E or such work last year. 



Professor T. Miyake, professor of zoology, Agricultural College, Imperial University 

 of Tokyo, Japan, a well-known writer on entomological topics died February 2, 1921. 



Mr. William Schaus, lepidopterist of the United States National museum, received 

 the degree of Master of Arts, last June, from the University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. Henry Fox who has assisted in control operations against the Japanese beetle 

 at Riverton, N. J., has returned to college to resume his teaching duties. 



Dr. Ira M. Hawley of the entomological department of Cornell University has 

 been appointed professor of entomology and entomologist at the Utah College and 

 Station. 



Dr. Phillip Garman, New Haven, Conn., visited Philadelphia, and spent the week 

 October 4-11, in studying the collections of Odonata at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. 



Mr. F. P. Ide, who was appointed temporary laboratory assistant, Entomological 

 Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, during the summer months, resigned 

 September 3, to continue his studies. 



Mr. W. H. Goodwin who assisted the department of entomology of the Ohio Sta- 

 tion during the summer months, has returned to his school duties at East Youngs- 

 town. 



Mr P. R. LowT}', of Ohio State University, has been appointed assistant entomolo- 

 gist at the New Hampshire Station, vice. C. R. Cleveland, who has gone to De Pauw 

 University. 



Mr. H. M. Brundrett has been transferred from the Federal Horticultural Board to 

 the Bureau of Entomology, and assigned to work on the ox warble at Herkimer, N.Y. 



Mr. H. O. Woodworth, formerly horticultural commissioner of San Mateo County, 

 California, has been appointed professor of entomology in the College of Agriculture 

 in the University of the Philippines. 



Mr. George Hopping has been appointed Insect Pests Investigator of the Entomolog- 

 ical Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, and is attached to the Division 

 of Forest Insects at Vernon, B. C. 



Mr. R. L. Webster, formerly of the Iowa College and Station, who has just com- 

 pleted work at Cornell University for the degree of Ph.D., has been appointed entomol- 

 ogist of the North Dakota Station, beginning in August. 



Mr. F. W. L. Sladen, Dominion Apiarist of Canada, was drowned off Duck Island 

 near Kingston, on September 10. Mr. Sladen was formerly assistant entomologist in 

 the Division of Entomology in charge of bee work, and is the author of many articles 

 and a book on "The Humblebee." 



