December, '09] JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC entomology 473 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Dr. A. W. Morrill, who was recently appointed entomologist to the Arizona 

 Horticultural Commission and the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 has moved his headquarters from Tucson to Phoenix, Arizona, and all com- 

 munications should be sent to him at the latter address. 



Mr. F. D. Couden has resigned his position with the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology at Washington, D. C, and entered a partnership with Mr. Herbert W. 

 Meyers under the firm name of Meyers & Couden. All communications should 

 be sent to No. 432 Pioneer Building, Seattle, Washington. 



Mr. Harry Severin, who recently received a post-graduate degree at the 

 Ohio State University, has been appointed State Entomologist of South 

 Dakota. Address, Brookings, S. D. 



Dr. A. E. Brunn died at South Woodstock, Conn., September 30, 1909. He 

 was a graduate of Cornell University and was greatly interested in ento- 

 mology, having published in 1882 a valuable paper on the Tineidas infesting 

 apple trees at Ithaca, N. Y. 



Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, who has been engaged in investigation work on the 

 Tachinid« at the Gipsy Moth Parasite Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, 

 Mass., has been granted leave of absence by the Bureau of Entomology in 

 order to carry on entomological investigations for the Peruvian government. 

 He will establish an entomological service in that country and will give 

 special attention to the treatment of insects affecting cotton and fruit trees. 

 Great damage has recently resulted to these crops on account of the abundance 

 of certain scale insects and these will be given immediate attention. Address, 

 Lima, Peru. 



Mr. Arthur I. Bourne, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, was employed as assistant in the entomological department of the 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven during the sum- 

 mer. Mr. Bourne has recently been appointed an expert and agent of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. George H. Hollister, who for three years has been field superintendent 

 in immediate charge of the gipsy moth work at Stonington, Conn., has 

 accepted an appointment as forester in Keney Park, Hartford, Conn. Mr. 

 Hollister took up the work in his new position October 16th, where he will 

 have charge of all spraying and planting work in a seven hundred acre 

 park, which is well endowed. 



Mr. E. J. Kraus, who recently resigned from the Bureau of Entomology, 

 accepted an appointment as Assistant in Horticulture at the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College, Corvalis, Oregon. An error was made in announcing his 

 change of address in a recent issue. 



Dr. H. J. Franklin will have charge of the Cranberry sub-station of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station at Wareham, Mass., where 

 he will conduct extensive experiments on insects affecting that crop. 



