June, '09] JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 268 



some years ago. Several of the colonies have enacted a legislation designed 

 to compel cooperation in the locust fight, while others provide assistance to 

 individuals conducting a warfare against the common euemv. 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



The Associate Editor has taken up work at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, 

 Melrose Highlands, Mass.. for the summer aud all communications should be 

 sent to the above address and not to Washington. D. C. 



Prof. Herbert Osboru has been granted leave of absence for one year at 

 the Ohio State University and arrangements made for him to investigate cer- 

 tain insects injurious to cereal and forage crops for the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. F. D. Couden of the Bureau of Entomology gave a short course on 

 elementary entomology to the students at the Biltmore Forest School, Bilt- 

 more, N. C, during the month of May. 



Prof. J. M. Stedmau has resigned the position of state entomologist of Mis- 

 souri to accept an appointment with the office of experiment stations, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Mr. C. T. Brues, curator of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, 

 Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been appointed instructor in en- 

 tomology at Harvard University vice Mr. Paul Hayhurst resigned. Mr. Brues 

 will begin work in his new position September 1, and after that date his 

 address will be Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Boston, Mass. 



Prof. W. :m. Wheeler has in press a new book entitled "Ants, Their Struc- 

 ture, Development and Behavior," which is being published by the Columbia 

 University Press. This book will appear early next fall, and will contain 

 much new and valuable information concerning this interesting family of 

 insects. 



At the last session of the Ohio legislature an appropriation of $6.9.50 was 

 made for the Department of Entomologj' of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station for the fiscal year ending March 1, 1910. Three assistant entomol- 

 ogists will be employed in the future. Mr. J. S. Houser has been appointed 

 first assistant, while Mr. W. H. Goodwin and Mr. L. L. Scott will fill the other 

 positions. Mr. Scott is a graduate of the Ohio State University and will 

 take up an investigation of bark beetles injurious to fruit trees. Other im- 

 porant lines of work will be an investigation of spring and fall canker worms, 

 the wheat joint worm, shade tree pests, the woolly aphis aud demonstration 

 work in spraying. 



The total returns from one acre of Ben Davis apple trees at Erlin, Ohio, 

 sprayed last year by the station entomologists amounted to $1,400 and the 

 net profit was $1,000. Demonstration orchards will be treated this year in 

 all sections of the state. 



Prof. G. P. Clinton, Mycologist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has sailed for Japan for the purpose of studying the fungous diseases 



