566 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 10 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



The cotton boll weevil has recently been found in Beaufort County, South Caro- 

 lina, by Prof. A. F. Conradi. 



Mr. H. H. Knight, investigator in entomology, Cornell University, is about to 

 enter the United States military service. Aviation Corps. 



Mr. J. W. Bailey, Bureau of Entomology, formerly located at Tempe, Ariz., has 

 resigned from the service to accept other work. 



Mr. Clarence R. Cleveland, assistant, has been promoted to instructor in economic 

 entomology at the New Hampshire Agricultural College and Station, Durham, N. H. 



Mr. Allan H. Jennings of the Bureau of Entomology has been commissioned a 

 first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army. 



Under the Food Production Act, the Secretary of Agriculture has authorized the 

 appointment of six additional men in the Bureau of Entomology for extension work 

 in beekeeping. 



Miss Margaret L. Moles, a post-graduate student at Cornell University, has been 

 appointed insect dehneator in the Bureau of Entomology to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of Mr. J. F. Strauss. 



Dr. W. J. Holland is chairman of the committee on arrangements for the coming 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held at 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., December 28 to January 2. 



Prof. Edwin C. VanDyke of the University of California, a specialist on the Coleop- 

 tera, and Prof. J. Chester Bradley of Cornell University, a specialist on the Hymen- 

 optera, have exchanged work for the present college year. 



The Federal Horticultural Board announced a public hearing at Washington on 

 November 20, regarding a proposed quarantine to prohibit the importation of sweet 

 potatoes and yams, on account of sweet potato weevils, Cylas spp., and the sweet 

 potato scarab, Euscepes hatatce. 



Mr. M. E. Kimsey, formerly deputy state entomologist of Indiana, has accepted 

 the position of special field agent in the Bureau of Entomology, Cereal and Forage 

 Crop insect Extension work, under the immediate supervision of Dr. A. W. Morrill, 

 state entomologist of Arizona. 



Messrs. Dwight Isely and H. C. Ingerson, Bureau of Entomology, have recently 

 completed an insect survey trip in the orchard section of Arkansas, Missouri and 

 Kansas. This trip was made in connection with the recently established laboratory 

 for deciduous fruit insect investigations at Bentonville, Ark. 



The following transfers have been made in the Bureau of Entomology: H. L. 

 Dozier, Tempe, Ariz., to Charlottesville, Va.; C. C. Hill, Knoxville, Tenn., to Car- 

 lisle, Pa. ; J. R. Horton to Wellington, Kans. ; A. B. Champlain, Washington, D. C, 

 to Lyme, Conn. ; A. D. Borden to Upland, Cal. 



The Food Production Act passed by Congress appropriates $441,000 for com- 

 bating insect pests and plant diseases and the conservation and utilization of plant 

 products. A portion of this has been allotted to the Bureau of Entomology for ex- 

 tension work in the various states. 



