August, '19] CURRENT NOTES 353 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Dr. A. D. Hopkins of the Bxoreau of Entomology visited the Ohio Station, March 

 30. 



The University of California has conferred the doctorate of laws upon Prof. Vernon 

 L. Kellogg of Stanford University. 



Prof. H. A. Gossard of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, addressed the 

 Paper Shell Pecan Grower's Association at Chicago, March 8. 



Mr. R. W. Wells of the Bureau of Entomology has been detailed to conduct work 

 on biting flies of cattle in cooperation with the Nevada Station. 



Mr. H. E. Hodgkiss, formerly of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 

 N. Y., is now professor of entomology extension, State College, Pa. 



Mr. Quincy S. Lowr>' is spending the summer on corn borer work for the Massa- 

 chusetts State Board of Agriculture, and at present is located in Lexington, Mass. 



Mr. J. R. Stear, formerly assistant in entomology at the Ohio Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, has accepted a position with the Pennsylvania State Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. W. C. Woods is spending the summer at the Agricultural Experiment Station* 

 Orono, Maine, studj-ing the Chrj'somelidse. He will return to Wesleyan University, 

 MiddletowTi, Conn., in the fall. 



According to Science, the honorary professional degree of master of horticulture 

 has been conferred upon Edmund H. Gibson of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, by 

 the Michigan Agricultural College. 



According to Science, two new laboratory buildings are planned for the College of 

 Agriculture at Los Banos, Philippine Islands, one of them to house the department 

 of entomology and plant patholog}\ 



Dr. ^l. W. Blackman, Department of Forest Entomology, New York State College 

 of Forestry, SjTacuse University, is at the Agricultiu-al Experiment Station, Orono, 

 Maine, for the summer working upon forest insects. 



Mr. Lloyd R. Watson, extension worker in apiculture in Connecticut for the past 

 year, has been permanently transferred to the apicultural laboratory of the Bureau of 

 EntomoIog\' at Washington, D. C, as special field agent. 



According to Science the title of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium 

 has been conferred on Dr. W. J. Holland, director of Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., in recognition of the "devotion shown by him to the cause of Belgium." 



According to Science, Lieut. Asa C. Chandler, Sanitary Corps, formerly assistant 

 professor of zoology at Oregon Agricultural College, has undertaken parasitologi- 

 cal work at the Central Medical Department Laboratory of the A. E. F. at Dijon, 

 France. 



Dr. H. H. Knight, formerly of Cornell University, was discharged from the Army 

 in April, and has since accepted an assistant professorship in entomolog>' at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota. His work will be almost wholly systematic in character. 



Mr. Don C. Mote, formerly Economic Zotilogist, Ohio Agricuhural Experiment 

 Station, was appointed State Entomologist of Arizona by the .Vrizona Commission 

 of Agriculture and Horticulture. He assmned the duties of the new office July 1, 

 1919. 



