June, '14] CURRENT NOTES 303 



Mr. J. L. King, who has been completing his course at the Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, receives his Bachelor's degree in June and will resume work with the Ohio 

 Station in late June, going to his laboratory at Gypsum. 



Mr. R. H. Hutchinson, of the Bureau of Entomology, left on March 22 for New 

 Orleans, where he will conduct further investigations of the treatment of manure 

 piles in the control of the house fly, in cooperation with the Bureaus of Chemistry 

 and Plant Industry. 



Mr. William P. Hayes, a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College, has 

 been appointed assistant in entomology at the Kansas Agricultui-al Experiment 

 Station, and is now stationed in the southern part of the state on the state crop 

 insect investigations. 



Mr. Fred A. Johnston, entomological assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, who 

 has been in Washington, D. C, for consultation and bibliographical and scientific 

 work, has returned to Riverhead, Long Island, where he is engaged in investigation 

 of insects affecting potatoes, cauliflower, asparagus, and other truck crops. 



Mr. E. H. Siegler, of the Bureau of Entomology, has left California, where he was 

 assisting in the work for the control of the pear thrips, returning to the station at 

 Benton Harbor, Mich., for the purpose of carrying on experiments with insecticides 

 against orchard insects. 



Mr. John E. Graf, Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Entomology, who has been in 

 Washington during portions of January, February and March for consultation and 

 study, has returned to his permanent quarters at Whittier, Calif., to resume work 

 on the sugar-beet wireworm, potato-tuber moth and other insects affecting vegetable 

 and truck crops. 



Mr. H. O. Marsh, Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Entomology, after an absence 

 of a few months, during which he took a special course at the Kansas Agricultural 

 College, Manhattan, Kansas, has returned to his headquarters at Rocky Ford, Colo., 

 where he will continue investigations on insects affecting sugar beets and truck 

 crops. 



Mr. R. S. Woglum, of the Bureau of Entomology, has returned to Whittier, Calif., 

 to continue his work with hydrocyanic-acid gas and the special citrus insects of that 

 region. Mr. Arthur D. Borden, a graduate of Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 and highly recommended by Professor Kellogg, has been employed and assigned to 

 Mr. Woglum as a field assistant. 



Mr. J. N. Summers, who has been conducting parasite investigations at the Gypsy 

 Moth Laboratory for the past three years, will sail for Europe in April and will 

 make observations on the fluctuations in increase of the gypsy moth in German 

 forests, and collect and ship parasites to the Gypsy Moth Laboratory for colonization 

 in this country. 



Mr Alfred E. Cameron, Government Scholar of the Board of Agriculture, England, 

 has recently arrived in the United States from the Department of Agricultural 

 Entomology of the Victoria University of Manchester. Mr. Cameron is to spend 

 the summer and autumn working under Dr. T. J. Headlee at the Entomological 

 Department of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, 

 N. J. 



