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entomologically speaking, of one season differ from those of another, 

 and it is only through careful study extending over a series of years 

 that the scientist and the field worker can cooperate in a highly efficient 

 method of reporting and disseminating information, involving, as this 

 does, discrimination between the vital and the comparatively unim- 

 portant, and the forecasting of developments. The present season 

 has demonstrated more fully, perhaps, than any other during the last 

 twent3'-five j'ears the profound influence which seasonal conditions 

 may have upon certain insects. These modifications can be forecast 

 in only a general way and are bound to be changed within compara- 

 tively narrow limits by local variations. 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. Frederick Ivnab has been elected a feUow of the Entomological Society of 

 America. 



Miss Ina L. Hawes, S. B. Simmons College, 1917, has been appointed assistant in 

 the library of the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. E. C. Cotton, Elyria, Ohio, has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Horti- 

 culture of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. 



On June 5, Dr. A. L. Quaintance and Mr. E. H. Siegler of the Bureau of Entomology 

 visited the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn. 



The Bureau of Entomology has received word that the Zoological Record, Regent's 

 Park, London, N. W., England, has temporarily suspended pubUcation, owing to the 

 war. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson, Assistant Dominion Entomologist of Canada, and Mr. E. M. 

 Schalck, Assistant to the State Entomologist of Illinois, recently visited the West 

 Lafayette, Ind., Field Station of the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. B. A. Porter, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed to assist R. A. Cushman in the study of hymenopterous parasites of decid- 

 uous fruit insects and will be stationed at Wallingford, Conn. 



The last legislature of Connecticut increased the appropriation for general work 

 against insect pests from $8,000 to §12,000, and for gipsy and brown-tail moth sup- 

 pression work from .?21,000 to S40,000 for the next biennium. 



According to Science, Professor D. L. Crawford of Pomona College, Claremont, 

 Calif., has been appointed Professor of Entomology in the College of Hawaii, Hono- 

 lulu, H. I., for a period of three years, beginning in September 1917. 



On June 6, Dr. L. O. Howard, Washington, D. C, Dr. T. J. Headlee, New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., and Dr. W. E. Britton, New Haveji, Conn., attended a meeting of the 

 National Malaria Committee at the Hotel Biltmore in New York City. 



A new division has recently been created in the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, to be known as The Tick Eradication Division, and 

 devoted exclusively to the work of eradicating the cattle fever tick in the South. 



