October, '13] CURRENT NOTES 435' 



and Curator of the museum in the college, Pullman, Wash., will be acting head of 

 the department of Entomology and Zoology for the coming year, during the absence 

 of Professor A. L. Melander, who has been granted a year's leave of absence for 

 research work at Harvard. Mr. M. A. Yothers, Assistant Entomologist of the 

 Station, will have charge of entomological investigations. Mr. E. O. Ellis, who thia 

 spring received his Master's degree from the Iowa Agricultural College, has been 

 elected to the position of Instructor in Entomology, and Assistant in Entomology 

 in the Station. 



The apicultural department of the Agi'icultural College at Amherst, Mass., haa- 

 been strengthened by increasing the apiary and by appointing a superintendent in 

 the person of Mr. John L. Byard, of Southboro, Mass., formerly a deputy apiary 

 inspector in the state. Mr. Byard is now president of the Massachusetts State 

 Beekeepers' Association and for three years was president of the Worcester County 

 Beekeepers' Association. He has a wide acquaintance with the beekeepers of his 

 state and a good knowledge of his subject, having been generally recognized as a 

 successful apiculturist. Mr. Byard will assist in laboratory and demonstrational 

 work with students and at institutes and conventions, but his services will be chiefly 

 confined to the maintenance of the college apiary and its equipment. 



Science is responsible for the statement that "Mrs. A. H. Clarke, of Earl'^Court, has^ 

 given to the University of London the collection of continental and exotic macrolepi- 

 doptera made by her late husband, who was one of the senior fellows of the Entomolog- 

 ical Society. The section of exotic butterflies consists of nearly 6,000 specimens 

 from all parts of the world, and is particularly valuable as a reference collection, 

 not merely from the number and careful selection of the forms represented (some 

 being of great rarity), but from the perfect condition and beauty of the specimens 

 themselves. The whole donation comprises over 12,000 specimens all carefully set 

 arranged and labeled; and to it Mrs. Clarke has added her husband's working library 

 of entomological literature. After the work of arranging and cataloguing has been 

 concluded, the collections will be available for reference by entomologists generally 

 upon application to the professor of zoology at the university." 



According to Canadian Entomologist, Mr. John D. Tothill, B. S. A., a graduate 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, has been awarded the Carnegie Scholar- 

 ship in Entomology in order to enable him to take a year's post graduate course at 

 Cornell University. The value of the scholarship is $625.00 and includes traveling 

 expenses. These scholarships are somewhat similar in character to the Rhodes 

 scholarships at Oxford and are intended to enable qualified young men in various 

 parts of the British Empire to spend a year in study at some University in the United 

 States. Mr. Tothill is a field agent of the Division of Entomology at Ottawa, and is 

 at present carrying on investigations under the direction of Dr. Hewitt, on the work 

 of parasites of the Brown-Tail Moth in N. B., his headquarters being at Fredericton. 



The Division of Entomology of the Minnesota Experiment Station has adopted 

 the Sectional plan. All sections are of equal rank. One section, comprising spraying 

 and shade tree and forest insects, is under the direction of Mr. A. G. Ruggles. Mr. 

 William Moore of Cornell, just returned from South Africa, has charge of the section 

 on Greenhouse and truck crop insects. Mr. C. W. Howard, from South Africa, also 

 a Cornell graduate, has charge of the section on Forage crop insects and also insects 

 and diseases. Mr. A. J. Spangler is chief nursery inspector under the direction of 

 the State Entomologist who has, by law, that work in charge. 



Mr. Charles H. T. Townsend, Government Entomologist and Director of Entomo- 

 logical Stations, was some time ago especially charged by the Peruvian Government 

 with the investigation of the insect transmission of verruga. On the 30th of June, 

 he announced, from the entomological evidence alone, the practical certainty that 



