June, '17] EDITORIAL 379 



great expansion of knowledge since the above-named work appeared 

 has made aids of this character most desirable. There is a manuscript 

 which brings this publication 'nearly to date; it has been completed for 

 some time and there appears to be no immediate prospect of its being 

 published. The usefulness of this compilation, though technical in 

 nature and necessarily somewhat extended, is apparent to every prac- 

 tical entomologist and it is suggested that those appreciating such 

 assistance should interest themselves in this matter. The work would, 

 in an indirect manner at least, be extremely helpful to an extended cli- 

 entage, since the efficiency of the entomologist is greatl}^ increased if 

 he can have at hand a volume which will quickly and surely put him 

 in touch with all available information concerning the Lepidoptera — 

 a group comprising many of our most important and destructive pests. 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. C. H. Cale has been appointed to take charge of the apicultural work at the 

 Maryland State College of Agriculture at College Park, Md. 



Mr. George G. Schweis, formerly assistant entomologist in the Nevada Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, has been appointed state apiary inspector for the state of 

 Nevada. 



The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology are announced: George 

 H. Rea, to accept an appointment at Harrisburg, Pa.; Mr. Neuls, Alhambra, Calif., 

 to go into business. 



The legislature of Minnesota has passed a law authorizing the state entomologist 

 to control the pine blister rust and appropriating $15,000 for the next two years for 

 this purpose. 



Mr. W. R. Walton of the Bureau of Entomology has been placed in charge of 

 Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, the position formerly held by the late 

 Professor F. M. Webster. 



Professor C. L. MetcaK of Ohio State University is to return about June 10 for the 

 summer, to the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station for a continuation of his 

 Syrphid studies. 



According to Science, the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, F. R. S., author of works on 

 arachnology, entomology, and general natural history, died on March 9, at the age 

 of eighty-eight years. 



Mr. W. J. ChamberUn, assistant in Forest Entomology at the Oregon Experiment 

 Station, has been granted an indefinite leave of absence to enter the Officers' Reserve 

 Corps training camp in California. 



Mr. Marion Wadley, a graduate student of the Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 has accepted a position in the Division of Truck Crop and Stored Product Insect 

 Investigations of the Bureau of Entomology. 



