April, '14] CURRENT NOTES 255 



According to the Beview of Applied Entomology, Mr. C. F. Beeson, Indian 

 Forest Service, has been appointed forest Zoologist to the Government of India^ 

 vice Dr. A. D. Imms, resigned. 



Mr. George W. Barber has recently taken a position in the Bureau of Entomology 

 and is located at Hyattsville, Md. Mr. Barber is a graduate of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, class of 1913. 



Francis Jager has been appointed professor in apiculture and apiarist, and 

 William Moore, assistant professor in entomology, at the University of Minnesota 

 and the Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. L. L. Scott, Entomological Assistant, Bureau of Entomology who was assist- 

 ing Mr. A. G. Hammar in codling moth investigations in the Pecos Valley, New 

 Mexico, resigned from the service February 14, 1914. 



Messrs. W. B. Wood and E. H. Seigler have been detailed for work during the 

 spring months in California in connection with the Bureau's investigations and 

 demonstration work in the control of the pear thrips. 



Mr, Chester F. Turner, of the Kansas Agricultural College, has accepted an ap- 

 pointment in the Bureau of Entomology, Cereal and Forage Crop Investigations, 

 and has been assigned to the Greenwood (Miss.) Station. 



Mr. Curtis P. Clausen, B.S., 1914, University of California, has accepted an ap- 

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

 Bureau of Entomology, with headquarters at Berkeley, Cal. 



Mr. Joseph J. Pillsbu^y, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 class of 1913, is engaged in field work on the gypsy moth in New Hampshire, with 

 headquarters at the parasite laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



Dr. J. E. Wodsedalek, formerly of the department of zoology. University of 

 Wisconsin, has been appointed head of the department of zoology and entomology 

 at the Idaho University and Station, the position formerly held by Prof. J. M. 

 Aldrich. 



Mr. Lawrence P. Eockwood, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 class of 1912, is employed by the Bureau of Entomology, and is located at Salt 

 Lake City, where he is engaged in rearing parasites for the control of the 

 alfalfa weevil. 



Mr. W. F. Turner, Entomological Assistant, Bureau of Entomology, formerly 

 assigned to work under the Insecticide and Fungicide Board, has been transferred 

 to the Office of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations, and will assist Mr. Baker in 

 studies of orchard plant lice. 



A monthly Netcs Letter will now be issued in the Bureau of Entomology, giving 

 an account of changes in personnel, activities of divisions and men, and methods of 

 work. The first number was is.sued in March, and the News Letter will be sent to 

 all connected with the Bureau. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, in charge of bee culture investigations of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, and Mr. George S. Demuth are conducting investigations on the temper- 

 ature of the bee colony in winter, at the Zoological Laboratory of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, at West Philadelphia. 



Mr. A. I. Fabis, a graduate student of Columbia University, New York City, and 

 formerly a student at Cornell University, has been employed as scientific assistant, 



