April, '19] CURRENT NOTES 223 



Mr, H. J. Reinhard has been promoted from assistant entomologist to entomolo- 

 gist, of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. A. C. Baker of the Bureau of Entomology recently received the degree of 

 doctor of philosophy from George Washington University. 



Mr. C. A. Weigel, connected with the Federal Horticultural Board, has recently 

 been released from military service and resumed his duties in Washington. 



Seven field men were scouting Eastern Pennsylvania during March for the Euro- 

 pean com borer, under the direction of Prof. J. G. Sanders, economic zoologist. 



Mr. E. H. Siegler of the Bureau of Entomology gave an illustrated address before 

 the Connecticut Pomological Society at Hartford, Conn., on January 24, 1919. 



Mr. G. N. Wolcott, who has been in the service with the A. E. F. in France, has 

 returned to Cornell University where he has begun work for his doctor's degree. 



Lieut. F. H. Lathrop, assistant entomologist in the Oregon Experiment Station 

 was released from military service early in the year and has returned to his duties in 

 Oregon. 



Captain R. D. Whitmarsh of the U. S. Army, formerly assistant entomologist of 

 the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, has been assigned to duty at Houston, 

 Texas. 



Mr. J. M. Robinson, formerly in extension service in Tennessee, has entered upon 

 work in the Department of Entomology in the Alabama Polytechnic Institution, 

 Auburn, Ala. 



Mr. J. B. Garrett, entomologist of Agricultural Experiment Station, Baton Rouge, 

 La., is on an indefinite leave of absence, and the work is in charge of W. E. Anderson, 

 acting entomologist. 



Mr. Charles P. Alexander of Kansas State University has been appointed system- 

 atic entomologist and custodian of collections for the IlUnois State Natural History 

 Survey, Urbana, 111, 



Mr. M. L. Benn, field assistant on crop pests with the Bureau of Zoology of Penn- 

 sylvania, is taking special work at Cornell University this year, in entomology, plant 

 pathology and horticulture. 



Mr. Geo. G. Becker has been released from the Navy and has accepted a tempDrary 

 appointment with the Bureau of Entomology to do extension work on deciduous 

 fruit insects in the state of Arkansas. 



Mr. W. E. Jackson has returned as assistant entomologist and chief apiary In- 

 spector of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, after a year of service in the 

 medical laboratory of the U. S. Army. 



Mr. I. Ij. Resslcr, recently discharged from the Chemical Warfare Service, has 

 taken up his former work as instructor in the Zoology and Entomology Department 

 of the Iowa Agricultural College at .^Vmes. 



Dr. J. McDunnough has relinquished his position as curator of the Barnes collec- 

 tion, Decatur, 111., to accept a position, April 1, in the Entomological Branch of the 

 Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, Out., Canada. 



Mr. J. V. Ormond, of the Bureau of Entomology and C. C. Hamilton, extension 

 entomologist of the Mis.st)uri College of Agriculture are just completing two montlis 

 of successful work in organizing the beekeepers of Missouri, 



