230 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 10 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. E. L. Worsham, state entomologist of Georgia, visited Washington, D. C, for 

 a conference on December 20. 



According to Science Mr. C. B. Williams has been appointed to study the parasites 

 of the sugar-cane froghopper in Trinidad. 



Samuel Graham and S. Marcovitch have recently been appointed research assis- 

 tants in entomology at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The California Academy of Sciences has a new museum building at Golden Gate 

 Park, San Francisco, which was dedicated and formally opened on September 22, 

 1916. 



Prof. Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University, was elected vice president, Section 

 F., of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the recent New 

 York meeting. 



Dr. E. G. Titus has resigned as professor of Zoology and Entomology at the Utah 

 Agricultural College, Logan, Utah, to take charge of seed breeding work of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Alvah H. Peterson, formerly of the University of Illinois, has accepted a 

 position as assistant in entomology at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 



]Mr. W. W. Henderson, formerly of Brigham Young College, Logan, Utah, has 

 been appointed professer of Zoology and Entomology at the Utah Agricultural 

 CoUege, vice Dr. E. G. Titus, resigned. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell gave the Annual PubUc Address before the Entomological 

 Society of America, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y., 

 Wednesday evening, December 27, 1916. 



Prof. H. A. Morgan, dean of agriculture in the University of Tennessee, visited 

 Tallulah, Mound, and other points in Louisiana in company with W. D. Hunter for 

 the purpose of reporting on the field work of the Bureau of Entomology. Visits were 

 also made to the laboratory at New Orleans and to the Experiment Station at Baton 

 Rouge. 



Prof. Charles T. Brues is hsted to give one of the free pubhc lectures arranged by 

 the faculty of medicine of Harvard University. These lectures will be given at the 

 Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Cambridge, on Sxmday afternoons at four o'clock. 

 Professor Brues will speak on April 1, and his subject is "Fleas and Other Insect 

 Parasites in their Relation to PubUc Health." 



The following appointments have been made in the Bm-eau of Entomology: A. P. 

 Sturtevant, formerly of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, to 

 investigate bee diseases; Harry F. Dietz and Kearn B. Brown, entomological in- 

 spectors for the Federal Horticultural Board. Mr. Dietz has been assigned to 

 Washington, D. C, and Mr. Brown to New York. 



A conference on the pine blister rust was held at Washington, January 19, at the 

 New Willard Hotel, in connection with the meeting of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. The following entomologists were present: — S. A. Forbes, Urbana, 111.; 

 F. L. Washburn, St. Anthony Park, Minn.; J. G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa.; W. J. 

 Schoene, Blacksburg, Va.; W. C. O'Kane, Durham, N. H. ♦ 



