354 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 7 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. J. R. Horton, of the Bureau of Entomology, recently visited Mobile, Alabama, 

 to investigate the Argentine ant in its relation to citrus trees in that region. 



Messrs. H. G. Barber, Charles W. Leng and F. B. Watson, of New York, will 

 visit Porto Rico this summer to assist in the survey of the island, especially studying 

 the insects. 



Professor A. L. Melander, who has been on leave of absence studying at the Bussey 

 Institution, Harvard University, for the past year, has returned to Pullman, Wash- 

 ington. 



Professor A. B. Cordley, Dean of the Oregon School of Agriculture at CorvaHis, 

 and formerly entomologist, has recently been appomted Director of the Oregon 

 Station. 



Professor \\. M. ^A^leeler of Harvard University is absent on a visit to AustraUa 

 where he will attend the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, and collect and study the Australian species of ants. 



Professor E. F. Hitchings, now associate professor of horticultiu-e, University of 

 Maine, formerly state entomologist, emerged about June 1 from five weeks in a 

 Boston hospital and is recuperating during the summer at Enfield, Me. 



Mr. F. L. Simanton has been placed in charge of the Bureau of Entomology 

 laboratory at Winthrop, Me., to continue especially the codling moth investiga- 

 tions there undertaken last by Mr. E. H. Siegler. 



Mr. John W. Bailey, a student of the Mississippi Agricultural College, who has 

 been appointed temporary field assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, will be in 

 charge of the work at Brownsville, Tex., in the absence of Mr. High. 



Mr. M. E. MacGregor, a Carnegie scholar, has been engaged as a collaborator, 

 Bureau of Entomology, in the investigation of the possible insect transmission of 

 pellagra. He will be associated with Mr. A. H. .Jennings at Spartanburg for several 

 months. 



Mr. R. H. Hutchison, of the Bureau of Entomology, has returned to Washington 

 from New Orleans. He will be engaged on experiments with the house fly during 

 the season. Mr. A. W. J. Pomeroy will be associated with him in this inve.stigation. 



Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, who has been director of the Entomological Experiment 

 Station at Lima, Peru, returned to the United States July 1, and is now connected 

 with the United States National Museum at Washington, where he should be ad- 

 dressed. 



Mr. E. W. Geyer of the New Mexico Agricultural College, has been employed 

 by the Bureau of Entomology to continue the codling moth investigations under 

 way during the past two seasons in the Pecos Valley in New Mexico, and which were 

 interrupted by the untimely death of Mr. A. G. Hammar. 



