August, '17] CURRENT NOTES 451 



Dr. E. A. Back, of the Bureau of Entomology, has been placed in charge of the new 

 section of Stored-Product Insect Investigations, recently organized in the Bureau. 

 He spent June 15-16 visiting the Department of Entomology' of the Kansas Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Mr. Louis A. Stearns, graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed for temporary work on insects as carriers of disease in 

 cooperation with the H. J. Heinz Company and the Bureau of Plant Industry at 

 Madison, Wis. 



The section on Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations of the Bureau of Entomology 

 has recently established a field station in WaUingford, Conn., and will take up the 

 study of the tent caterpillar, the apple maggot, and certain other fruit insects. Mr. 

 E. H. Siegler is in charge. 



The following transfers have been made recently in the Bureau of Entomology: 

 G. A. Runner from Southern Field Crop Investigations to Deciduous Fruit Insect 

 Investigations, with headquarters at Sandusky, Ohio; A. B. Champlain, Lyme, Conn, 

 to Falls Church, Va.; E. H. Siegler, Washington, D. C, to Walhngford, Conn. 



J. D. Mitchell of the Bureau of Entomology has begun an investigation of two rice 

 insects which have caused very large losses in Matagorda County, Tex. Both species 

 are new as enemies of rice. Together they have destroyed the greater part of forty 

 thousand acres of rice, and threaten to spread extensiveh' during the coming season. 



On June 6, W. Dwight Pierce received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the 

 George Washington University, Washington, D. C. The title of his thesis was " Com- 

 parative Morphology of the Insect Order Strepsiptera."' The minors were "The 

 Relation of Insects to Disease," and "The Relation of CUmate to Insect Life and 

 Activity." 



Dr. A. G. Boving and F. C. Craighead, of the Bureau of Entomology, are very 

 anxious to secure living adults of Corydalis for anatomical purpo.ses. It will be 

 appreciated if any one who finds adults of the "Dobson fly" will send them aUve (in 

 small tin can) to either Dr. Boving at V. S. National Museum or Mr. Craighead at 

 East Falls Church, Va. 



A series of meetings of beekeepers were held early in July at points in Vermont under 

 the supervision of Dr. Burton X. Gates, now a Collaborator of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology'. A similar series of meetings is being arranged in western Maryland which 

 will be attended by Kenneth Hawkins and G. H. Cale of the Maryland State College 

 of Agriculture, now Collaborator of the Bureau. 



According to Science, Messrs. George P. Englehardt, Curator of Invertebrates, and 

 Jacob DoU, Curator of Lepidoptera in the Brooklyn Museum, have, through the 

 generosity of Mr. B. Preston Clark of Boston, undertaken an expedition to the plateau 

 regions of southwestern Utah and Northern Arizona, and will give particular atten- 

 tion to lepidoptera, small mammals and reptiles. 



One of the sahent features of the initial number of the Emergency Entomological 

 Service issued May 1, is covered under the title "Biochmatic Law as Applied to the 

 Hessian Fly," by A. D. Hopkins, Forest Entomologist, and is the first direct effort in 

 the appUcation of phenological data to insect emergence and crop planting. (In- 

 quiries and suggestions should be addressed to Dr. A. D. Hopkins, Forest Entomol- 

 ogist, Bureau of Entomology.) 



