October, '19] CURRENT NOTES 413 



Mr. G. A. Coleman has returned from a summer school in beekeeping which he 

 conducted at Sur, Monterey County, Cahfornia. He obtained additional moving 

 picture films representing beekeeping operations and expects ultimately to have a 

 very exhaustive set of these films. 



Mr. H. L. Seamans, formerly assistant state entomologist of Montana and recently 

 released from mihtary service, will substitute for Mr. M. H. Spaulding, assistant 

 professor of zoology, in the Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts during the coming college year. 



Mr. N. F. Howard, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology, stationed at Madison, 

 Wis., who has been serving in the Sanitary Corps in France for about a year, returned 

 the first of August and has accepted a position in the Efficiency Department of the 

 Goodrich Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. 



Prof. Leonard Haseman of the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., spent the 

 month of August at Ithaca, N. Y., and made a hurried auto trip through a part of 

 the European corn borer, and gipsy and brown-taU moth infested areas of New York, 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. 



A feature of the past j^ear's work at Clemson CoUege is the activity in extension 

 work for the development of beekeeping. Mr. E. S. Prevost is in charge of this, 

 and a great amount of work was done throughout the state in transferring, requeen- 

 ing and preparations of bees for outdoor wintering. 



Mr. L. J. Hogg, formerly assistant in cereal and forage crop insect investigations) 

 Bureau of Entomology, and attached to the laboratory at Tempe, Ariz., died sud- 

 denly July 8 of acute peritonitis. At the time of his death, Mr. Hogg was acting as 

 agricultural specialist for a large copper concern in Arizona. 



Mr. E. R. De Ong has just completed a survey of the well waters, about 500 wells 

 in the Santa Clara Valley, to determine their hardness for the purpose of prescribing 

 appropriate formulae for oil emulsions. Great variations were found which accounts 

 for the complaints of the users of this insecticide in that locality. 



Mr. Ralph Oertli, Mr. Bernard Iverson and Mr. Jacob Bulger have been appointed 

 assistants in the Entomology Department of the South Dakota State College. Mr. 

 OertU will assist in the State Experiment Station work, while Messrs. Iverson and 

 Bulger will be connected with the office of the state entomologist. 



Capt. R. D. Whitmarsh has resigned his position at the Ohio Station and accepted 

 work with the Corona Chemical Co., Milwaukee, Wis. He will develop a scientific 

 department for the company dealing with entomology and plant pathology. He 

 will also have charge of considerable work, more or less of a commercial character. 



Dr. W. Dwight Pierce, who has been connected with the Bureau of Entomology 

 for fifteen years, has severed his connections with the Department and will open up a 

 general entomological consulting and commercial practise with headcjuarters, proba- 

 bly at Boise, Idaho. His temporary address is 1545 South 19th St., Lincoln, Neb. 



Mr. E. O. Es.sig, wlio served as farm advi.sor for Ventura County, California, dur- 

 ing the war period and has ju.st hokl the position of manager of tlic selling agency for 

 the Lima Bean Growers' As-scx-iation in wliich capacity he .sold over 250 carloads 

 of beans, has now returned to his professorship in entomology at tiie University of 

 California. 



