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Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Alfred Russell Wallace died Xovember 7, in the ninety-first year of his age. 



A new insectary is being erected at Oklahoma College and Station. 



A new nursery insjx'ction law has been enacted bj' the legislature of Rhode Island. 



Mr. J. W. Jeffrey, formerly State Horticultural Commissioner of California, is 

 now engaged in organizing fruit growers' associations in that state. 



Professor S. A. Beach, Professor of Horticulture at the Iowa Agricultural College, 

 recently visited the orchard regions of Utah and the Pacific Coast. 



Mr. U. C. Loftin has resigned as assistant in entomology at the Florida Univer- 

 sity and Station, to accept a position in the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. W. W. Marshall of Xelsonville, Ohio, has accepted a position with the State 

 Entomologist's office at College Station, Texas, with the rank of assistant entomolo- 

 gist. Mr. Marshall will assume the duties of his position on December 1. 



Mr. Frank E. Lutz and 'Sir. Charles \V. Leng have recently returned from an 

 entomological collecting trip to Cuba, in the interests of the American Museum of 

 Natural History of New York City. 



Dr. O. M. Reuter, formerly Professor of Zoologj- in the University of Helsingfors, 

 Russia, and an authority in Hemiptera-Heteroptera, died September 2. aged sixty- 

 three. 



Mr. Gordon W. Ells. B. S., a graduate in the class of 1913, :Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, has been appointed assistant entomologist at the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala. 



At Smith College, Northampton, Mass., a new biological hall is being erected 

 in wliich the department of zoology and botany will be situated. The trustees have 

 afppropriated Sl-10,000 for the new building. 



Dr. Robert Matheson has resigned as Provincial Entomologist of the Province 

 of Nova Scotia, to accept the position of investigator in entomology- in the Cornell 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Mr. R. H. Van Zwanlenburg, B. S., a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricuhural 

 College, class of 1913, has been appointed entomologist of the Federal Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, in place of the late Dr. C. W. Hooker. 



An apiarj' inspection law was passed by the state legislature of Arizona at its 

 last session. The law became effective on July 5, and the governor has appointed 

 Mr. J. P. Ivy as state inspector. 



Mr. H. S. Smith, superintendent of the CaUfornia State Insectary, was sent in 

 August for a two or three months' trip to the Orient, in search of the natural enemies 

 of the various scale insects attacking citrus fruits in Cahfornia. 



The Extension Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas 

 is offering correspondence courses in "Elementary Entomology" and "Economic 

 Entomology." The work is in cooperation wth the Entomological Department of 

 the college and is under the supervision of Professor Wilmon Newell. 



