Octob?r, '14] CURRENT NOTES 409 



• Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Dr. H. E. Ewing has been elected assistant professor in entomology at the Iowa 

 State College, Ames, Iowa. 



The School of Agricultm-e, Purdue University, Indiana, now has 275 students 

 taking work in entomology. 



Mr. E. C. Cotton, assistant entomologist of the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has resigned to conduct a commercial orchard in Ohio. 



Mr. A. L. Lovett has recently been promoted to the position of assistant professor 

 in entomology at the Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon. 



Mr. W. J. Schoene, who was recently appointed state and station entomologist 

 at Blacksburg, Va., is now acting director of the Vii-ginia Station. , 



Mr. G. F. Mozette, a 1914 graduate of the Oregon Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed assistant in entomology at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. 



A fire, August 7, destroyed the entire equipment of the entomological department 

 of the Agricultural Experiment Station (and College) at Stillwater, Oklahoma. 



Mr. Tennyson D. Jarvis, associate professor of entomology in the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College at Guelph, has resigned to take charge of a fruit farm at Grimsby. 



Mr. Frank E. Moeser, a collector and observer of lepidoptera, especially local 

 Noctuidte, died at his home in Buffalo, N. Y., May 15, at forty-five years of age. 



Dr. Victor E. Shelford has recently been appointed associate professor of zoology 

 in the University of Illinois on part time, and also biologist in the Illinois State 

 Laboratory. 



Professor G. M. Bentley, state entomologist of Tennessee and assistant entomolo- 

 gist of the station, has been appointed entomologist of the Station with Mr. H. R. 

 Watts as assistant entomologist. 



Dr. Charles C. Adams, of the University of Illinois, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of Forest Zoology in the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 University, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, inspected the field 

 and parasite work on the gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth during the last week 

 in June. 



Mr. Loren B. Smith, a recent graduate of Cornell University, has been appointed 

 assistant state entomologist of Virginia, and will be located at the Truck Crop Exper- 

 iment Station at Norfolk. 



Dr. W. D. Hunter, Bureau of Entomology, recently returned from a trip of inspec- 

 tion of the work in progress at Dallas, Texas, Tucson, Ariz., and in the Bitter Root 

 Valley of Montana. 



Mr. Thomas H. Jones, after an absence of some months for study in Washington, 

 D. C, and Massachusetts, has returned to his former headquarters, The Sugar 

 Producers' Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, P. R. 



