154 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 6 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. Lawson Caesar has recently been appointed Provincial Entomologist of Ontario. 



Mr. Peter Cameron, author of "British Phytophagous Hymenoptera"died Decem- 

 ber 1st, 1912. 



Ray Painter has been appointed assistant in entomology at the Oklahoma College 

 and Station. 



The new $100,000 building of the Wyoming College and Station will contain an 

 entomological laboratory. 



Dr. L. O. Howard lectured before the undergraduates at Oberlin College, January 

 7, on certain types of noxious and beneficial insects. 



Mr. Hem-y H. Severin, recently of the College of Hawaii, is an Honorary Fellow 

 at the University of Wisconsin. 



Forest Insect Field Station number 5, of the Bureau of Entomology has been 

 removed from Yreka to Placerville, CaUfornia. 



The recent death of Mr. W. G. Wright, a well known lepidopterist of San Ber- 

 nardino, Cal., and author of "Butterflies of the West Coast of the United States" has 

 been announced. 



Two new ports of entry for horticultural inspection have recently been established 

 on the Pacific coast, — San Francisco and Seattle. 



Mr. R. W. Braucher is Principal of the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery, Kent, 

 Ohio, from December 1st to April 1st, 1913. 



Mr. F. A. Huntley, horticultural inspector for the State of Washington, has been 

 appointed United States inspector for the port of Seattle. 



The late Frederick Blanchard bequeathed his entomological collection to the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University. 



Mr. William F. Kirby of the Zoological department of the British Museum and 

 author of entomological papers died on November 20, 1912, at the age of sixty-eight. 



Mr. George H. Hollister, a member of this association, has been made Superinten- 

 dent of Kency Park, Hartford, Conn. His new duties were assumed January 1st, 

 1913. 



Mr. A. G. Ruggles, of Minnesota, who at present is on leave of absence and ento- 

 mologist for the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Disease Commission, spent Christmas 

 at his home in Nova Scotia, and on his return stopped at New Haven and New York. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded prizes of $500 to Dr. Carlos J. Finlaj^ 

 and Dr. A. Agramonte, of Havana, for their work on the role of the mosquito in the 

 transmission of yellow fever. 



Prof. C. F. Hodge of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., gave an address before 

 the Science Club of the University of Wisconsin, November 6, 1912. His subject 

 was "Fly Extermination as a Problem in University Biology." 



Meriftbers of the Federal Horticultural Board were present at the meetings of the 

 American Association of Horticultural Inspectors at Cleveland, Ohio, the first week 

 of January. 



