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try, and the experience gained by Professor Britton at Stonington and Wallxngford 

 will undoubtedly prove of much service in handling similar problems in other sec- 

 tions. The rosy apple aphis, Aphis sorbi Kalt, which was exceedingly abundant 

 in Connecticut, is discussed in detail, technical descriptions being given of the 

 various stages. Among other important insects noticed are the bud moth, Tme- 

 tocera ocellana, the leopard moth, Zetizera pyrma, and the peach borer, Sanninoidea 

 exitiosa, together with minor observations upon a number of injurious species. 

 The value of this report is greatly increased by an admirable series of illustrations, 

 especially those showing the characteristics of gipsy moth infestation. 



Current "Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. George G. Becker has been appointed assistant in Entomology at the Arkansas 

 University and Agricultural Experiment Station at Fayetteville, Ark. 



Professor Clarence P. Gillette has recently been appointed Director of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Fort Collins, Colorado, in place of L. G. Carpenter, 

 resigned. 



Dr. H. T. Femald, State Inspector of Massachusetts, attended a meeting of 

 Massachusetts Nurserymen at Boston, June 11th, when an organization was 

 formed, to be kno-^vn as the Massachusetts Nurserymen's Association. Severa,l 

 states now have such organizations and the result will doubtless tend to improve 

 the condition of certain nurseries and encourage a reasonable interpretation of the 

 inspection laws and regulations. 



Professor R. S. Mackintosh, who has for several years served as Horticulturist of 

 the Alabama Experiment Station, and has been in charge of nursery inspection and 

 quarantine work, has resigned to accept a position in the investigation of peach cul- 

 ture problems at the Pennsylvania State College. His successor is Professor P. F. 

 Williams, formerly assistant to Professor Mackintosh, and a graduate of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College in the class of 1905. 



Mr. W. S. Griesa, proprietor of the Mount Hope Nurseries, Lawrence, Kansas, has 

 established, in memory of his father, the late A. C. Griesa, a research foUowship in 

 entomology at the University of Kansas. Mr. H. W. Lohrenz, a graduate research 

 student of entomology in the University of Kansas, has been appointed to this fel- 

 lowship and began his work on the fifteenth of June. 



At the first International Congress of Entomology held last month at Brussels, the 

 Entomological Society of America was represented by Dr. W. J. Holland of Pittsburg, 

 Pa., Professor Herbert Osbom of Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. Henry Skinner of Phil- 

 adephia, Pa. The second International Congress will meet at Oxford in 1912 on the 

 invitation of Professor E. B. Poult on. 



Mr. W. C. O'Kane, Assistant Entomologist of the New Hampshire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Durham, N. H., has been appointed Entomologist of the same 

 Station in place of Professor E. D. Sanderson who resigned recently to become Dean 

 of the College of Agriculture of the University of West Virginia, Morgantown, W. 



