August, '19] CURRENT NOTES 355 



serving with the Bureau of Entomology his work was connected with bee diseases, on 

 which several papers were published. He was graduated from the Medical depart- 

 ment of George Washington University in 1915. He was ill eleven days before his 

 death. 



The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology are announced : H. W. 

 Lee, to enter business; H. H. Nininger, to become special extension entomologist for 

 Kansas; F. H. Gates, to enter commercial work at Phoenix, Ariz.; A. P. Swallow, to 

 become extension entomologist in truck crop insects at the Texas Agricultural College; 

 Stewart Lockwood to enter State work. North Dakota; C. W. Creel to become State 

 extension entomologist, Nevada; W. E. Dove; Dr. W. Dwight Pierce to enter 

 private business. 



Dr. C. L. Marlatt, assistant chief of the Federal Bureau of Entomology, and chair- 

 man of the Federal Horticultural Board, visited the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege May 19. He gave a very instructive address to the Entomological and Zoologi- 

 cal Seminary on some work of the Federal Horticultural Board. Dr. Marlatt, who 

 is an alumnus of the Kansas State Agricultural College, was a member of the entomo- 

 logical staff in that institution from 1884 to 1888, at which time he resigned to enter 

 the service of the Federal Bureau of Entomology. 



According to Science, Mr. Charles W. Leng, secretary of the New York Entomologi- 

 cal Society and research associate in the American Museum of Natural History, has 

 been appointed director of the museum of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences, and began his duties June 1st. Mr. Leng has been interested in the natural 

 history of Staten Island, where he was born and hves, since boyhood. Entomologists 

 and other naturalists, visiting New York City, can reach the museum of the institute 

 by a pleasant half hour's sail across the bay on the Staten Island ferry. 



At a meeting of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska during the 

 latter part of May, Professor Lawrence Bruner, who has been in charge of the ento- 

 mological activities in Nebraska for the past thirty years, was retired from active 

 service on part salary, owing to his continued ill health. Prof. Myron H. Swenk, 

 who has been in active charge of the entomological work of the state for several 

 years past, was made chairman of the Department of Entomology in the University, 

 state entomologist of Nebraska and entomologist in the Experiment Station. 



According to Science, Mr. J. G. Sanders, director of the Bm-eau of Plant Industry 

 of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, at Harrisburg, Pa., has been com- 

 missioned by the Federal Horticultural Board at Washington to study the potato 

 wart disease in the British Isles, and to note the methods adopted for controlling the 

 spread of this most dangerous potato diease. The potato wart disease was first 

 determined by him to occur in the United States in a district comprising four coun- 

 ties in the vicinity of Hazleton, Pa., in September, 1918. These four counties, with 

 three outlying points, are now under strict quarantine. 



According to Science, an entomological e.xpedition to South America is planned by 

 Prof. J. Chester Bradley, '06, of the College of Agriculture of Cornell University. 

 Leaving Ithaca next September, Professor Bradley vnW visit Brazil, Argentina, and 

 Chile; in the following spring he will be joined in Peru by Professors Cjtus R. Crosby 

 and Dr. W. T. M. Forbes, of the Agricultural College, and the party will work on the 

 Amazon River as far as Peral near the headwaters. The exjiedition is conducted 

 under the auspices of the university for the two-fold purpose of securing entomological 

 specimens and of forming closer relations with South American institutions of learning. 



The following transfers are announced in the Bureau of Entomology: Geo. W. 

 Barber to corn borer work, Arlington, Mass.; L. G. Centner from extension to investi- 



