December, '19] CURRENT NOTES 469 



CURRENT NOTES. 



The fall field meeting of the New Jersey Beekeepers Association was held at New 

 Lisbon, September 10. 



The fifty-sixth annual meeting of the Ontario Entomological Society was held at 

 Ottawa, November 6 and 7. 



The fall convention of the Connecticut Beekeepers Association was held at the 

 state capitol, Hartford, October 11. 



Dr. J. H. Merrill, assistant entomologist of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, is now state apiarist of Kansas. 



Dr. L. O. Howard attended the meetings of the National Academy of Sciences at 

 New Haven, Conn., November 11 and 12, 1919. 



According to Science, Major General W. C. Gorgas has been elected an honorary 

 member of the National Academy of Medicine of Peru. 



Prof. H. A. Gossard of the Ohio Station visited the Gulf states early in September 

 and visited the State Entomologist of Georgia, on his way home. 



Mr. Rossiter D. Olmstead has recently been appointed assistant in entomology at 

 the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y. 



The New Hampshire Beekeepers Association was formed at Durham, N. H., on 

 August 19, about seventy-five being present at the meeting at the college. 



According to the Ohio Experiment Station News, grasshoppers have been more 

 abvmdant and have caused more damage this year in Ohio than for twenty years. 



Additional resignations. Bureau of Entomology: F. L. McDonough, Tobacco 

 insect investigations; H. F. Dietz, tropical and subtropical fruit insect investigations. 



Mr. H. E. Ewing, formerly of the Iowa Agricultural College, is now connected with 

 the Bureau of Entomology- at Washington, and will give especial attention to a study 

 of mites. 



Dr. W. D. Pierce, a former member of the Bureau of Entomology, announces the 

 incorporation of the Gage-Pierce Research Laboratories with headquarters at Denver, 

 Colorado. 



Mr. A. J. Flebut has returned from military service and has been reinstated in the 

 Bureau of Entomology, and will have charge of the laboratory at Fresno, Cal., inves- 

 tigating grape insects. 



Mr. C. F. Stahl, Bureau of Entomology, engaged in sugar beet insect investigations 

 in California, reports almost complete injury of sugar beets by the curly-top leaf- 

 hopper in Riverside County. 



Dr. E. P. Felt read a paper before the National Association of Commissioners of 

 Agriculture at Chicago, November 10, outlining a comprehensive program for dealing 

 with the European corn borer. 



Mr. J. C. Evcnden, Bureau of Entomology, formerly entomological ranger and 

 during the war captain in Company G, 303 Infanlry, with the American Expeditionary 

 Forces, in France, has returned to the Branch of Forest Entomology as scientific 

 assistant and is stationed at Cocur d'Alene, Idaho, under general direction of F. G. 

 Miller. 



