February, '14] CURREXT NOTES 159 



President-Elcct Theodore Wirth, of the Society of American Florists and Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists, has appointed Dr. ^V. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn., ento- 

 mologist of the society for the year, 1914. 



According to Science, Prof. F. V. Theobald, vice-principal and zoologist of the 

 Southeastern Agricultural College at Wye, Eng., has been awarded the Mary Kings- 

 ley medal of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 



Mr. Frederick Maskew, chief deputy quarantine officer of California, has been sent 

 to the Hawaiian Islands by the Federal Horticultural Board to study the Mediter- 

 ranean fruit-fly situation there. • 



At Oberlin College Robert A. Budington has been promoted to a professorship, 

 and Dr. S. P. Nichols tc an assistant professorship in zoology. Dr. Charles G. Rodgers 

 has also been newly appointed professor of zoology in the institution. 



Messrs. C. L. Marlatt, W. D. Hunter, W. A. Orton, E. R. Sasscer, and Perley 

 Spaulding, attended the section meeting of horticultural inspectors at Atlanta, Ga., 

 January 1, 1914, as representatives of the Federal Horticultural Board. 



The new biological building at Yale University is now completed. It houses the 

 botanical and zoological departments, including entomology. It is a large and well 

 appointed fireproof building of brown-stone. 



Mr. Ralph W. Howe, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, class 

 of 1913, is now entomological assistant at Delta Laboratory,»Tallulah, La., and is 

 engaged in studying the cottonboll weevil. 



Prof. A. L. Mylander of the Washington College and Station, who is studying this 

 year at Harvard University, lectured before the Brown Universitj- Chapter of Sigma 

 Xi at Providence, R. I., November 24 on "The Control of Insect Pests." 



It has been reiwrted that the Federal Horticultural Board has asked Congress to 

 appropriate 135,000.00 with which to prevent the Mediterranean fmit fly from 

 becoming established in the United States. 



The following were elected officers of the ^^'ashington Entomological Society at the 

 annual meeting December 4, 1913 : President, Dr. W. D. Hunter; first vice-president, 

 A. N. Caudell; second vice-president, E. R. Sasscer; editor, W. D. Hunter; correspond- 

 ing secretary-treasurer, S. A. Rohwer; additional members, of the executive commit- 

 tee. Dr. L. O. Howard, E. A. Schwarz, August Busck. 



Colonel W. C. Gorgas, has been elected an honorary feUow of the Royal Sanitary 

 Institute, London. Colonel Gorgas is chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal 

 Zone, and recentlj' investigated the sanitary conditions of the port of Guayaquil, with 

 the result that that city is to be cleaned and a proper sanitary system installed, at an 

 approximate cost of $10,000,000. 



Hugh Glasgow, Ph. D. (Universitj^ of Illinois) has accepted an appointment as 

 associate entomologist at the Geneva (N. Y.) Agricultural Experiment Station, in 

 place of W. J. Schoene, resigned. He will devote his attention principally to the 

 wood-boring insects attacking tree fruits, and to a study of the effects of insecticides 

 on plant tissues. 



From a note in Science, we learn that an address on "Collecting Insects in the 

 Oke'fenoke Swamp" was given on December 2, 1913, before the New York Entomo- 

 logical Society by Prof. J. Chester Bradley of Cornell I'niversity, who was one of a 



