December, '19] CURRENT NOTES 471 



cultural Board, to camphor thrips investigations, Florida; C. A. Weigel, camphor 

 thrips investigations, Florida, to \\"ashington, D. C. 



Dr. Burton N. Gates, formerlj^ in charge of bee culture at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., who resigned to accept a similar position at the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, has given up this position and 

 returned to Worcester, Mass., to take up another line of work. 



Mr. R. L. Webster, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, spent the 

 month of August in southern California, studying the fumigation of citrus trees. 

 The state insectary at Sacramento, the government entomological laboratories at 

 Alhambra and the entomological laboratory at Riverside were visited. 



Entomologists will be pleased to learn that according to the press of October 20, the 

 Grand Duke Nicholas Micholaivitch, who was several times reported dead, is alive 

 and for several months has been living on Prinkipo Island in the sea of Marmora. He 

 is a well known entomologist and has published several volumes, mostly on the 

 Lepidoptera. 



Mr. George X. Wolcott, a former employee of the Bureau of Entomology, has been 

 reengaged to take charge of a cooperative project between the Bureau and the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. The project in question is an investigation of possible insect 

 transmitters of the sugar-cane mosaic disease. Mr. Wolcott's field of operations will 

 be Porto Rico. 



The Bureau of Entomology in cooperation with the Extension Division and De- 

 partment of Entomology of the University of Wisconsin, gave an extension short 

 course for commercial beekeepers at Madison during the week of August 18. The 

 meetings were in the nature of a Chautauqua. The total attendance was 160, the 

 largest at any such school to date. 



Additional appointments. Bureau of Entomology: Samuel Blum, Cornell Univer- 

 sity scientific assistant. Southern corn root-worm investigations, Columbia, S. C; 

 Joseph Edwin Fouser, Ohio State University, scientific assistant in testing proprie- 

 tary insecticides; M. D. Leonard, Cornell University, and H. W. Allen to European 

 corn borer investigations, Arlington, Mass. 



According to Canadian Entomologist, Mr. W. Downes, temporary assistant at the 

 Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Victoria, B. C, has been appointed a junior 

 entomologist and will a.ssist Mr. R. C. Trehcrne, entomologist in charge for British 

 Columbia, in the investigations on small fruit in.sects that are being conduct od on 

 Vancouver Island and the Lower Fraser Valley. 



Arrangements have been made by the Bureau of Entomology in coDpcraiioii with 

 the extension .services of the several states to conduct short courses for conunercial 

 beekeepers this fall as follows: North Yakima, Wash., Nov. lO-lo; Davis, Cal., 

 Nov. 17-22, Fresno, Cal., Nov. 24-29; Riverside, Cal., Dec. 1-G; San Diego, Cal., 

 Dec. 8-13; San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 15-20; Manhattan, Kans., week of February 8; 

 Ithaca, N. Y., week of February 23, 1920. 



Observations in Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey on the Colorado potato beetle 

 indicate that extensive |)arasitisni ex|>hiins the material decrease in numbers during 

 the present sea.m)n. In the individuals of the first generation more tlian 2") per cent 

 appear to have l)een parasitized, while j)anusitisni in the .second generation is almost 

 complete. Workers in a position to ob.scrve and transmit to the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology parasitized individuals of the Coloratlo potato beetle will confer a favor by 

 so doing. 



