December, '14] CURRENT NOTES 485 



At the invitation of the Florida Agi-icultural Experiment Station, Mr. W. W. 

 Yothers, Bureau of Entomology, gave an address before the Citrus Seminar, held 

 at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., on September 22. 



Mr. E. W. Laake, Bureau of Entomology, in company with Doctor Johnson, of 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry, is investigating a serious outbreak of anthrax in 

 western Texas, in which transmission by horse flies seems to be indicated. 



Dr. William Saunders, author of "Insects Injurious to Fruits," since 1886 director 

 of the Central Experimental Farms of the Dominion of Canada at Ottawa, and a 

 member of this Association, died September 13, in his seventy-ninth year. 



Mr. J. R. Horton, Bureau of Entomology, who is in charge of the Subtropical 

 Field Station at New Orleans, La., was recently called to St. Louis, Mo., owing to 

 the death of his brother as the result of an accident. 



Mr. R. S. Vaile, collaborator, Bureau of Entomology, and until recentlj- horticul- 

 tural commissioner of Ventura County, Cal., will continue as collaborator with head- 

 quarters at Berkeley, where he has been appointed assistant professor of orchard 

 management in the University of Cahfornia. 



Mr. W. E. Pennington, Bureau of Entomology, has been transferred from Wel- 

 lington, Kan., to the Hagerstown (Md.) Laboratory to take the place vacated by 

 C. M. Packard, who is now at Wellington, Kan., assisting Mr. E. G. Kellej^ in the 

 Hessian fly investigations. 



Mr. A. C. Cameron, a research student of the British Board of Agi-iculture, who 

 has done notable work on the entomology of the soil of England, and who has spent 

 several months in New Jersey, visited Washington on September 23. 



Mr. M. M. High, entomological assistant, Bureau of Entomology, engaged in 

 investigations of onion insects and the insect enemies of other vegetable crops at 

 Knox, Ind., leaves these headquarters for Brownsville, Tex., where he will work on 

 the same problems. 



Mr. P. R. Myers, who for several years was connected with the division of insects 

 in the United States National Museum, has received an appointment in the Bureau 

 of Entomology, and has been detailed to assist Mr. W. R. McConnell at the Hagers- 

 town (Md.) station. 



Mr. William B. Parker, Bureau of Entomology, who has been engaged during 

 the year in investigation of insects injurious to stored products and other projects 

 at Sacramento, Cal., has accepted the position of farm adviser under the auspices 

 of the University of Cahfornia, with headquarters at Ventura, Cal. 



Messrs. T. E. Holloway and G. N. Wolcott, Bureau of Entomology, returned from 

 Europe about the middle of September. Mr. Holloway spent the entire month of 

 August in Paris. He has retiu-ned to his station at New Orleans and Mr. Wolcott 

 has resumed his work on Lachnostema parasites at Urbana, 111. 



Mr. John N. Summers, Bureau of Entomology, who has been travehng in Europe 

 for several montlis studying gypsy moth and brown-tail moth conditions, reached 

 New York on September 12. Mr. Summers' return to Meh-ose Highlands, Mass., 

 was somewhat delayed on account of the chaotic condition existing in Europe caused 

 by the war. 



