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Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. S. Marcovitch has accepted a position with the Tennessee State Board of 

 Entomology as research assistant. 



Mr. George G. Becker has been appointed chief inspector of th;? Arkansas State 

 Plant Board, vice J. Lee Hewitt, resigned. 



Mr. Thomas L. Guj^on has resigned from the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 

 Department of Agriculture of Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Stanley B. Freeborn has returned from service and has been appointed assistant 

 professor of entomology in the University of CaHfornia. 



Mr. F. B. Paddock has resigned as state entomologist of Texas to take effect Sep- 

 tember 15, to assume the duties of state apiarist of Iowa. 



Mr. C. C. Hamilton resigned August 1 as extension entomologist of the Missouri 

 Agricultural Extension Service to enter commercial work. 



Miss M. E. Stehle, assistant professor in Zoology and Entomology, Clemson Col- 

 lege, spent the summer at Woods Hole doing advanced work. 



Dr. H. E. Ewing has spent the summer season in the U. S. National Museum doing 

 systematic work on the mites for the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. T. T. Haack, formerly deputy inspector in Wisconsin, is acting as assistant 

 state leader in charge of barberry eradication in the same state. 



A field laboratory has been estabHshed by the Ohio Station in the trucking district 

 at Marietta, Ohio, in charge of Mr. W. V. Balduf during the summer. 



Mr. W. H. Hambleton returned this month to his position as instructor in ento- 

 mology and apiculture in the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. G. M. Anderson, formerly extension entomologist at Clemson College, has 

 accepted a position as research entomologist, beginning his duties on August 1, 1919. 



Mr. Edmund H. Gibson has resigned from the Bureau of Entomology to take up 

 professional work in entomology with headquarters for the present at Alexandria, Va. 



Mr. C. R. Phipps, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed assistant entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, 

 N. Y. 



Messrs. P. G. Plumley and J. L. Wood, Jr., have recently been added to the corps 

 of nursery and orchard inspectors, working under the Tennessee State Board of Ento- 

 mology. 



Experimental apiary work has been inaugurated in the Entomological Department 

 of the Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas, with Mr. H. B. Parks 

 in charge. 



Prof. K. C. Sullivan of the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., prepared an 

 educational exhibit of economic insects for the state fair which attracted unusual 

 attention. 



Mr. Russell M. Hain has recently been appointed as an expert on insect troubles 

 in the extension department of the Michigan Agricultural College and licgan his 

 duties September 1 . 



