Oc-tobor, '14] CURRENT NOTES 411 



The following new men have been temporarily engaged for tobacco horn worm 

 demonstration work in Tennessee and Kentucky, by the Bureau of Entomology: 

 O. M. Shelby, E. C. Crockett, A. D. Bosley, J. U. Gilmore, H. B. McKinney, F. G. 

 Sorrels, R. K. Catlett, and J. E. McMurtrey. 



Walter A. Price, a graduate of the Ohio State University, class of 1913, has been 

 appointed assistant in entomology at Purdue University, LaFayette, Ind. Mr. 

 Price entered upon his duties September 1 . For the past year he has been assistant 

 to Professor Osborn of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Mr. John H. Pollock, of the Colorado Agricultural College has been appointed 

 Entomological Ranger, Bureau of Entomology, to take effect September 1, and 

 was assigned to duty at the Southern Field Station at Colorado Springs, Colorado, 

 imder W. D. Edmonston, in charge. 



Mr. F. Paul Keen, of the University of California, has been appointed Entomologi- 

 cal Ranger, Bureau of Entomology, to take effect August 1, and assigned to duty at 

 the Pacific Slope Sub-Station at Ashland, Oregon, under John M. Miller, in charge 

 of the station. 



Mr. J. C. Evenden, of the Oregon State Agricultural College, has been appointed 

 Entomological Ranger, Bureau of Entomology, to take effect October 1, and was 

 assigned to duty at the Northern Rocky Mountain Field Station at Missoula, Mon- 

 tana, under Josef Brunner, in charge. 



Mr. O. D. Ingall, a graduate of the Yale Forest School, who for several years was 

 employed by the United States Forest Service, has been appointed assistant in Farm 

 Management in the Bureau of Entomology and is conducting sylvicultural investi- 

 gations in connection with the gipsy moth work. 



Dr. Arnold V. Stubenrauch, who for several years has had charge of pomological 

 Investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture, and a member of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board, has accepted a position in the University of California 

 as head of the new division of pomology. 



Mr. John E. Graf, Bureau of Entomology, who has been w^orking on the potato- 

 tuber moth, wireworms affecting sugar beet, and other insects affecting sugar beets 

 and potatoes, with other members of the force of the Bureau, has removed from his 

 old headquarters at Whittier to Pasadena, Cal. 



Mr. Raphael Zon, Acting Chief of Forest Investigations in the United States 

 Forest Service, spent several days in the gipsy moth infested territory examining the 

 forest conditions with particular reference to the sylvicultural investigations which 

 are being carried on cooperatively by the Bureau of Entomology and the Forest 

 Service. 



Mr. Carl Fuchs, one of the older entomologists of the Pacific coast and a well 

 known Coleopterist, died June 11, at his home in Alameda, California, in his seventy- 

 fifth year. For several years Mr. Fuchs was assistant curator of the entomological 

 department of the Cahfornia Academy of Sciences at San Francisco. 



Mr. Lawson Caesar has been promoted to the position of associate professor; and 

 Mr. A. W. Baker to that of lecturer; and Mr. G. J. Spencer to that of demonstrator, 

 in entomology at the Ontario Agricultural College. All are graduates of the College, 

 and have received the degree of B. S. A. from the University of Toronto. 



