254 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 7 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



A proposed aiiti-niosquito drainage law is now before the legislature of Mass- 

 achusetts. 



Mr. W. O. Ellis has been appointed instructor in entomology at the "Washington 

 State College. 



Mr. George G. Ainslie of the Bureau of Entomology is now at work in Florida^ 

 with headquarters at Orlando. 



Mr. T. J. Talbert has recently been appointed assistant in entomology at the 

 Missouri College and Station. 



Mr. Desla Bennion, who has been connected with the Salt Lake (Utah) Station^ 

 Bureau of Entomology, has resigned. 



"William H. Hasey, 1913, Massachusetts Agricultural College, is a graduate 

 student in entomology at the college. 



Mr. L. M. Gates has recently been appointed field exj^ert in entomology at the 

 Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Prof. N. E. Shaw, state nursery inspector of Ohio, addressed the Ohio Nursery- 

 men's Association at Cleveland, January 21, 1914. 



Mr. Harry W. Allen, 1913, Massachusetts Agricultural College, is now employed 

 at the parasite laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



Mr. Henry L. Viereck, sailed on March 5, to collect parasites in Italy, France 

 and Germany for the California Commission of Horticulture. 



Prof. J. H. Com stock of Cornell TJniversity, has recently been elected one of the 

 twelve honorary members of the Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 



Mr. S. B. Doten is now director of the Agricultural Experiment Station of 

 Nevada. This is the fifth station to select an entomologist as its director. 



According to Science, Dr. Creighton "WeUman, dean of the school of hygiene and 

 i;ropical medicine of Tulane University of Louisiana, has resigned his position. 



Mr. "W. S. Regan, chief deputy nursery inspector of Massachusetts, was operated 

 upon for appendicitis at the hospital in Springfield, Mass., during the holidays. 



Mr. Clyde M. Packard, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 class of 1913, now has a position in the Bureau of Entomology and is stationed at 

 Hagerstown, Md. 



Mr. Eoy E. Campbell, B.S., 1913, University of California, has accepted an ap- 

 pointment in the branch of Truck Crop and Stored Product Insect Investigations,. 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. P. M. Eastman, Massachusetts Agricultural College, class of 1908, is 

 inspector of nurseries for the New York State Department of Agriculture, with 

 headquarters at Albany. 



Mr^ Ray T. "Webber has been appointed as scientific assistant. Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, and is now engaged in experimental work at the Parasite Laboratory, 

 Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



