April, '17] CURRENT NOTES 301 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. Emery A. Proctor, Gipsy and Brown-Tail Moth Investigations, Bureau of 

 Entomology, died December 11, 1916. 



According to Science, Dr. B. R. Poppius, the Finnish entomologist, died November 

 27, 1916, at the age of forty years. 



Dr. L. O. Howard gave a lecture, February 1, before the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences, on "The Carriage of Disease by Insects." 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, for many years assistant keeper of the British Museum, died 

 on February 4, at the age of seventy-three years. 



Recent resignations from the Bureau of Entomology are as follows: Oswald D. 

 IngaU and Charles F. Guptill, Gipsy and Brown-Tad Moth Investigations. 



Professor W. C. O'Kane, Durham, N. H., attended the annual meeting of the New 

 England NurserjTnen's Association at Hotel Taft, New Haven, Conn., January 

 30-31. 



Dr. Edith M. Patch, entomologist, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, 

 Me.; Prof. George A. Dean, state entomologist, Manhattan, Kan.; Prof. Georges 

 Maheu, provincial entomologist, Quebec, Can., visited the Bureau of Entomology 

 during February. 



During the month of January the following were visitors at the Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy: C. Gordon Hewitt, Ottawa, Can.; G. A. Dean, Manhattan, Kan.; E. D BaU, 

 Madison, Wis. ; and Prof. James G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa. 



According to Science, the governor of Minnesota has recommended to the legisla- 

 ture that $25,000 be appropriated for the use of the state entomologist in combating 

 the white-pine bUster rust in Minnesota. 



Dr. Alvah H. Peterson, whose New Jersey appointment was noted in the February 

 issue of the Journal, is assistant entomologist of the New Jersey Agricultural College 

 Experiment Station, and instructor m Entomology in Rutgers College. 



Mr. P. B. Wiltberger has been appointed instructor in entomology at the Mich- 

 igan Agricultural College and assistant entomologist of the Station vice G. C. 

 Woodin resigned, the appointment to take effect April 1. 



Recent appointments to the Bureau of Entomology are as follows: Carl F. W. 

 Muesbeck, scientific assistant, Gipsy Moth Parasite Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, 

 Mass; J. E. Graf, Truck Crop and Stored Product Insect Investigations, Plant City, 

 Fla. 



Dr. Marcus T. Smulyan, formerly connected with the Virginia Agricultural Exper- 

 iment Station, has been appointed to the position of Specialist in Insects and Carriers 

 of Insect Diseases, Bureau of Entomology, and assigned to duty at the Gipsy Moth 

 Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



The ofl&ces of the Gipsy and Brown-Tail Moth Investigations, Bureau of Entomol- 

 og3% were moved in December from 43 Tremont Street, Boston, to 964 Main Street, 



The Index of American Economic Entomology by Dr. Nathan Banks is ready for 

 distribution. Orders may be placed with A. F. Burgess, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 

 See advertisement for rates. 



