158 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 7 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Colonel W. C. Gorgas has been appointed by President Wilson, surgeon-in-chief 

 of the United States Army. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the Zoological h'ociety of London. 



Mr. C. H. Richardson is assistant in entomology at the j\^gricultural Experiment 

 Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Mr. G. H. Hollister, superintendent of Keney Park, Hartford, Conn., was recently 

 elected pomologist of the Connecticut Horticultural Society. 



Mr. W. O. Holhster, formerly entomologist of Parke Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich., 

 is now connected with the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery, Kent, Ohio. 



J. Robert Parker, assistant entomologist at the Montana Station, made a short 

 visit at his home in Windsor, Conn., and at Amherst, IVIass., during November. 



Mr. A. J. Spangler, formerly assistant at the I'niversity of Kansas, now holds a 

 similar position on the staff of the state entomologist, St. Anthony Park, Minn. 



Mr. A. B. Gahan, M. S., formerly associate entomologist of the Maryland Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, is now connected with the Bureau of Entomology, 

 Wa.slungton, D. C. 



Mr. Elverett H. Cooper, who graduated in the class of 1913, Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, is teaching entomology at the College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts, at Raleigh, N. C. 



Prof. A. L. Quaintance of the Bureau of Entomology read a paper on "Insects 

 Injurious to Nuts," at the meeting of the Northern Nut Growers' Association held 

 at Washington, D. C, in November. 



Mr. R.J. Fiske, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, class of 1910, 

 is now an insi)ector in the Department of Entomology of the Insular Government, 

 Porto llico. 



Mr. J. A. Dew, formerly assistant in entomology at the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Auburn, Ala., is now manager of the insecticide department of Van 

 Antwerp's seed store. Mobile, Ala. 



Doctor Fj. p. felt gave the annual public address before the Entomological Society 

 of America at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday evening, December 31, on the subject of 

 "Gall Insects." 



Mr. George W. Peckham, author of several publications on solitary wasps, and 

 spiders, died at his home in iMil\\'aukee, Wis., Januarj' 11, after a brief illness, aged 68 

 years. 



On November 28, 1913, Dr. W. J. Holland was elected an honorary member of the 

 Royal Spanish Society of Natural Science, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Lord Avebury. 



