484 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 7 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. W. S. Regan has been appointed assistant in entomology at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. 



Dr. J. R. Dickson, health officer of Trinidad, W. I., visited the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology on September 18. 



Mr. C E. Wilson has succeeded Mr. R. E. Lobdell as assistant zoologist and 

 entomologist at the Mississippi station. 



Dr. M. T. Smulyan has recently been appointed assistant to the state entomolo- 

 gist of Virginia, with headquarters at Blacksburg. 



Mr. C. C. Hill, 1914, Massachusetts Agricultural College, is now connected with 

 the Brn-eau of Entomology, and is located at Nashville, Tenn. 



Mr. C. M. Packard, Bureau of Entomology, Hagerstown, Md., has been trans- 

 ferred to Hessian fly investigations at Wellington, Kan. Mr. Packard was married 

 July 29. 



Mr. W. V. King, Bureau of Entoniology, has returned to New Orleans, La., where 

 he will resume his work in the medical department of Tulane University. 



Mr. H. C. Eagerton of the South Carolina Experiment Station has been appointed 

 assistant entomologist in the Estacion Agronomica at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 



Mr. Ralph R. Parker, who has been studying the fly problem in Montana during 

 the summer, has returned to continue his graduate work at the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Mr. W. D. Pierce, Bureau of Entomology, has spent the month of September in 

 determining the spread of the cotton boll weevil in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. 



Mr. H. P. Wood, Bureau of Entomology, has been gi-anted leave of absence with- 

 out pay for the purpose of taking a course in tropical medicine at Harvard Univer- 

 sity. 



Mr. Stanley B. Freeborn, class of 1914, Massachusetts Agricultural College, is 

 assistant and engaged in teaching economic entomology and veterinary parasitology, 

 at the University of Cahfornia. 



Mr. James M. Langston, Bureau of Entomology, has been transferred from Nash- 

 vUle, Term., to Greenwood, Miss., where he will assist Mr. C. F. Turner in charge 

 of the laboratory at that point. 



Mr. A. W. Joblime Pomeroy has received the appointment as entomologist for the 

 Department of Agriculture for southern Nigeria. He will proceed to his post from 

 Liverpool on November 25. 



Mr. J. D. Luckett, Biu-eau of Entomology, assigned to work under the Insecticide 

 and Fungicide Board, at Vienna, Va., resigned September 5, in order to resume 

 school work at Purdue University. 



Mr. J. F. Strauss, Bureau of Entomology, has recently returned from a trip to 

 Germany. While in Germany he collected a number of aphids on fruit and garden 

 crops, which are of considerable interest. 



