August, '14] CURRENT NOTES 355 



Mr. J. S. Houser, of the Ohio Station, visited Xew Jersey, Xew York and the 

 New England States earh- in June to study the methods employed in dealing with 

 the gj'psy and brown-tail moths and other shade tree insects. Mr. Houser visited 

 several entomologists on this trip. 



Mr. Loren B. Smith of Cornell University, formerly of the Xova Scotia Agricul- 

 tural College, has been appointed A.?sistant State Entomologist of ^'il•ginia. ]\Ir. 

 Smith will be located at the "\'irginia Truck Experiment Station at Norfolk, and will 

 take charge of the work on the truck crop insects. 



Mr. T. E. HoUoway, of the Bureau of Entomology, will spend several months in 

 Europe during the summer, visiting Italy. France and Germany. He will be accom- 

 panied by Mr. G. N. Walcott of the Porto Rico Board of Agriculture. 



Mr. F. 'SI. Wadley, a student of the Kansas State Agi-icultural College, is assigned 

 as temporary field assistant in the Bureau of Entomologj^ to cooperate with Mr. 

 F. B. Milliken at Garden City, Kansas, in work on truck crop insects, especially 

 on insects injurious to sugar beets. 



Mr. Mason, a Carnegie scholar, who has been in this country for about a year, 

 recently having studied at Cornell University', has been appointed Government 

 Entomologist in Nj-asaland. He spent some days in Washington during the month 

 preparatory to leaving for his new post. 



Hearings were held by the Federal Horticultural Board, on Maj- 15, regarding 

 the pink boll worm which occasionally comes into this countrj- in cottonseed in 

 bales of lint; on June 22, regarding the extension of the quarantine against the gj^psy 

 and brown-tail moths in the New England States. 



Mr. John A. Grossbeck, a specialist in geometrida^, and for the last few years 

 connected with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, formerly 

 assistant to Dr. J. B. Smith at the New Jersey Station, died in Barbadoes, British 

 W. I., April 8, 1914. Mr. Grossbeck was born in Paterson, N. J., February 2, 1883. 



Mr. Jacob Kotinsky, who was formerly Entomologist of Hawaii, had been ap- 

 pointed entomological assistant in the United States Bureau of Entomology' and 

 assigned to the Division of Forest Insect Investigations of which Dr. A. D. Hopkins 

 is in charge. Mr. Kotinsky's present address is Silver Spring, ^Id., R. R. No. 3. 



Mr. M. M. High, entomological assistant, Bureau of Entomology, who has been 

 working on truck-crop and stored-product insect investigations, especially on onion 

 pests, at Brownsville, Tex., will resume his midsummer headquart.' .s at Knox, 

 Ind., where he will continue on the same class of insects under different climatic 

 and soil conditions. 



Mr. E. A. }^Iiller, graduate 1908 of the Texas A. and ]M. College, who has been 

 Plant Pathologist and Assistant Entomologist for the past two years, has taken up 

 work with the L. & N. Rj'., in the capacity of horticulturist, plant pathologist and 

 entomologist. Mr. Ed. L. Ayers, B.S., 1914, of the A. and M. College has been 

 appointed to fill Mr. Miller's place in the Texas Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. E. J. Newcomer, of Leland Stanford University, has been employed by the 

 Bureau of Entomology' and assigned to work on deciduous fruit insects in the Wenat- 

 chee Valley, Washington. In cooperation with Mr. D. F. FLsher, representing the 



