April, '19] CURRENT NOTES 225 



Dr. F. A. Fenton, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology and later fellow in zoology 

 and entomology, Ohio State University, who has been recently released from military 

 service, has accepted an appointment as research assistant in the Iowa Experiment 

 Station and entered upon his duties there in March. 



Mr. D. M. DeLong has returned to the Bureau of Economic Zoology, Harrisburg, 

 Pa., after serving seven months in the Sanitary Corps at the Yale Army Laboratory 

 School and at Camp Devens, Mass. He will be located during the summer months 

 at the field laboratory of the above bureau at North East, Pa. 



Capt. Herbert T. Osborn, who has been in military service since July, 1917, received 

 his discharge in December and has been visiting the Osborn family in Columbus, Ohio, 

 but wUl return to his position in the Entomological Division of the Hawaiian Sugar 

 Planters' Association Experiment Station in Honolulu early in April. 



Appointments in the Bureau of Entomology are announced as follows : R. V. Rhine, 

 apicultural extension work in Kansas; Edward R. Jones, for work on tobacco insects; 

 Richard T. Cotton, to study Calandra attacking corn; J. C. Furman, stored product 

 insect investigations; R. F. Wixson, apicultural extension work, Virginia. 



Mr. John J. Davis, in charge of the field laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of Ento- 

 mology at West Lafayette, Ind., has been transferred to New Jersey, beginning May 

 1, where he will take up the work of eradicating the Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica 

 Newm, in cooperation with Dr. T. J. Headlee, state entomologist of New Jersey. 



The following members of the Bureau of Entomology, and who entered military 

 service, have been honorably discharged from the service and have been reinstated in 

 the bureau: W. D. Whitcomb, C. H. Alden, R. W. Kelley, E. W. Scott, Dr. G. F. 

 White, Capt. E. H. Gibson, A. C. Mason, Max Reeher, J. U. Gilmore, T. P. Cassidy. 



The Entomological Department of Purdue University, LaFayette, Ind.. will put 

 on a short course in apiculture, of one week's duration, beginning April 7, 1919. Dr. 

 E. F. PhiUips of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, and other noted apiculturists will 

 take part in the discussions. The course is intended principally for commercial bee- 

 men. 



Mr. J. S. Houser made a trip through northeastern Ohio, March 13 to 15, to locate 

 some orchards suitable for spraying experiments and to do some preliminary scouting 

 for possit)le discovery of the European Corn Borer. Mr. Houser was called to Co- 

 lumbiana County as an expert witness in a case regarding a carload of wheat infested 

 with insects. 



According to the Experiment Station Record, at the New Jersey Station, the experi- 

 mental cranberry investigations, including tests of fertilizers, drainage, and insect 

 control have been summarized, and with these data as a basis a new project on various 

 phases of cranberry culture has been begun in charge of C. S. Beckwith, assistant 

 entomologist. 



According to Science, "it is announced that Genera Inseclorum, the great work 

 describing all the genera of insects, published at Brussels, is to be continued. When 

 the country was invaded in 1914, several parts were about to be pul)lished; these 

 are to appear in 1919. The stock of the previously published parts was .saved, and 

 in now available." 



A memorial service was held December 8, 191S. at the University of Chicago, for 

 the late Prof. Samuel W. Williston, formerly professor of paleontology. The sjKjakera 

 were Prof. E. C. Case, l^niversity of Michigan, Prof. Stuart Weller of the Department 



