August, '13] CURRENT NOTES _ 387 



a pest and a close ally insignificant? What are the determining fac- 

 tors in the case of either chronic or periodically injurious species? 

 May any of these factors be modified to the practical advantage of 

 man? Some men are giving more or less time to such problems, 

 though usually in an incidental way and generally in relation to indi- 

 vidual pests. Are not some of these broader questions worthy of the 

 same concentration so frequently given problems of pressing practical 

 importance? 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury) died May 28, aged 79 years. 



A new fou^ brood law has been enacted in Connecticut, becoming operative 

 August 1. 



Coliunbia University recently conferred the honoraiy degree of Doctor of Science 

 upon Wm. C. Gorgas. 



Professor George H. Parker was elected a member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences at Washington, April 22-24. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, was recently elected 

 a Fellow of the Royal Soc ety of Canada. 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science 

 from Colorado College. 



Mr. WiUiam Harper Dean, assistant and instructor in Entomology at the Texas 

 College and Station, resigned April 1. 



Professor S. W. WiUiston receiv d the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from 

 Yale University, June 18. 



Mr. A. J. Mutchler has been appointed as-istant in the department of inverte- 

 brate zoology at the Amer'can Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



At the ecological conference at the University of Chicago this summer. Professors 

 S. A. Forbes and Wm. M. Wheeler are to give illustrated lectures. 



Dr. E. P. Sansten, recently appointed horticulturist of the CoUege and Station at 

 Auburn, Alabama, has resigned to accept a similar position at the Colorado State 

 College. 



W. E. Dove, a recent graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural College is now 

 employed by the United States Bureau of Entomology and is located at Dallas, 

 Texas. 



Dr. M. W. Blackman, of the zoclogical department of Syracuse University, has 

 been made associate professor of entomology in the New York State College of Fores- 

 try, SjTacuse University. 



Mr. W. F. Fiske, who has been connected with the gypsy moth parasite laboratory 

 for several years, has resigned from the Bureau of Entomology and is spending the 

 siunmer in Europe. 



Assistant Surgeon General Wm. C. Gorgas, Professors J. H. Comstock and C. E. 

 McClung, were elected members of the American Philosophical Society at Phila- 

 delphia, on April 19. 



Mr. Benjamin W. Douglas, formerly state entomologist of Indiana, has started in 

 business as a landscape gardener in Indianapolis, and will take charge of the planting 

 of several large estates. 



