June, '14] CURRENT xVOTES 301 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Dr. Paul S. Welch, instructor in entomology, Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 lias been advanced in rank to assistant professor. 



Mr. A. C. Morgan, of the Bureau of Entomology, returned to his field station at 

 Clarksville, Tenn., on March 25. 



Professor O. H. Johannsen has been promoted to a full professorship in ento- 

 mology in Cornell University. 



Mr. Joseph S. Obecny has been appointed field assistant in entomologj', at the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick. N. J. 



U. C. Loftin of the Bureau of Entomology, has returned to New Orleans after sev- 

 eral months spent in Brownsville, TexaS; in the study of sugar cane insects. 



At the meeting of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, April 25' 

 Mr. Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, of Washington, D. C, was elected a member. 



Professor P. J. Parrott, Entomologist of the Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y., 

 has just commenced work again, having fully recovered from a serious illness of 

 several weeks. 



Dr. W. D. Hunter, of the Bureau of Entomology, left on March 23, for a short 

 trip of inspection of the Rocky Mountain spotted-fever tick work in the Bitter Root 

 Valley of Montana. 



Mr. W. B. Wood, of the Bureau of Entomologj', has returned to Washington after 

 a stay of several weeks in.Cahfornia, where he was assisting in the work for the con- 

 trol of the pear thrips. 



Mr. A. H. Jennings^ of the Bureau of Entomology, will resume his work on pellagra 

 at Spartanburg, S. C, in connection with the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Com- 

 mission, about May 1. 



Mr. Wilham H. White, B.S., Maryland Agi-icultural College, has been appointed 

 Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Entomology, and assigned to work on truck-crop 

 insects in Maryland. 



Messrs. G. A. Root and J. E. Hutson, graduate students at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, are serving temporarily as nursery inspectors for the State 

 Board of Agriculture. 



Mr. S. Mokshetsky has been appointed director of the Pomological Experiment 

 Station, which has been recently established in the town of Simferopol, Crimea, 

 Russia. 



Dr. L. O. Howard has been elected an honorary member of the new German 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, which held its first meeting at Madgeburg, 

 October, 1913. 



