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Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



The death of Mr. L. E. Ricksecker at San Diego, Cal., January 30, 1913, Lg an- 

 nounced in Enlorrujlogiaxl News. 



Mr. A. G. Hamrnar, assistant in deciduou.s fruit insect investigations of the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, has been sent to San Jose, Cal. 



The Smith.sonian African Expedition, under the leadership of Col. Theodore 

 Roo.sevelt, collected about 3,500 .specimens of insects in East Africa. 



Mr. Henry L. Viereck has resigned from the Bureau of Entomology at Washington. 

 His address is now 669 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mr. P. H. Timberlake, formerly of Whittier, Cal., has been transferred to Utah. 

 His present address is 510 Vermont Building, Salt Lake City. 



Prof. E. B. PouHon has been chosen as one of three to represent Oxford University 

 at the International Congress of Zoology to be held this year at Monaco. 



Mr. Quincy S. Lowry of the Mas-sachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., 

 has been appointed assistant in entomology, at the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, New Haven, Conn. 



Mr. Harry B. Kirk, assistant in entomology at the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, New Haven, Conn., resigned March 4, to accept a po.sition in Forest Insect 

 Investigations in the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Andrew Rutherford of Scotland, has recently been apppinted government 

 entomologist of Ceylon. His address will be. Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon. 



Mr. C. T. Brues expects to spend several months late in the spring in Central and 

 South America, investigating di-sease-carrying insects under the au-spices of the 

 newly established School of Tropical Medicine at Harvard University. 



Rev. Abbe V. A. Huard, conservator of the Provincial Museum of Quebec, and 

 editor of Le Naluraliale Canadien has been appointed entomologist of the Province 

 of Quebec. 



According to the Caruidian Entomologist, Mr. J'rederick Knab of the Bureau of 

 Entomology has been appointed honorary custodian of the diptera in the United 

 States National Museum at Washington to succeed the late Mr. D. W. Coquillett. 



Mr. Ernest E. Green, government entomologist of Ceylon, has resigned and re- 

 turned to England. Personal mail shculd be addressed, Mote Hall, Bearsted, Kent, 

 England, until further notice. 



Mr. F. A. Merrick, a well known collector of nocturnal lepidoptera, died at his 

 home New Brighton, Pa., December 16, 1912. He disposed of his collection last 

 year to Dr. William Bamas. 



Professor S. W. WillLston, University of Chicago, has been appointed delegate 

 at large of the American Zoological Society, to attend the Ninth International Con- 

 gress of Zoology. 



Prof. R. W. Hamed is secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Nurserymen's Asso- 

 ciation, and Professor G. M. Bentley holds a similar office in the Tennessee Nursery- 

 men's Association. 



