December, '19] CURRENT NOTES 473 



The outlook accordingly is very encouraging, and it is hoped that additional efforts 

 in the adjoining portions of Mississippi may accomplish the same benefits and that 

 work for another season or two in Baker County, Fla., may be equally productive. 



The use of the aeroplane for scouting for the pink boUworm has been reported in 

 previous issues of the Monthly Bulletin (California) of the old Horticultural Com- 

 mission. This work recently has received a serious setback as the result of a fatal 

 accident which happened on August 7, in which both Lieutenant TilUsch, pilot, and 

 E. L. Diven, the technical observer of the board, lost their Uves. Lieutenant Harold 

 Compero, of the office of pest control of this department, was the original pilot and 

 when mustered out was reheved by Lieutenant Tilfisch. The ffights had been con- 

 ducted for a considerable period without serious accident. The danger of this service 

 was fully recognized, but it was hoped the board's record would be a clean one, 

 except as to accidents of a minor character. Both Lieutenant Tillisch and Mr. 

 Diven were men of high character and undertook the work with a full realization of 

 the personal risk. 



Director Hecke of California has received advices from E. W. Rust, parasite col- 

 lector attached to the office of pest control of the new Department of Agriculture, 

 that he safely arrived at Cape Town, August 13 last. Mr. Rust will be engaged for 

 some time in locating, rearing and packing beneficial insects for transportation to 

 CaUfornia, where they will be propagated for use ia black scale and mealybug infested 

 localities. Mr. Mally, the entomologist at Cape Town, has furnished Mr. Rust 

 with all the facilities at his command, including a well-equipped laboratory. From 

 Cape Town Mr, Rust will proceed to Pretoria, where he will confer with C. P. Louns- 

 bury, entomologist for the S. A. Department of Agriculture, the governor-general 

 and the minister of agriculture. On the voyage to Cape Town Mr. Rust was La 

 company with the African Expedition of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, 

 D. C. In the expedition were Edmund Heller, biologist, late of the Roosevelt Expe- 

 dition, in charge of the party. Dr. Shantz, botanist. Dr. Raven, zoologist, and six 

 other members, representing the moving pictures and newspapers. 



Resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been announced as follows: 

 M. R. Smith, South CaroUna; J. D. Smith, Charksville, Tenn.; R. L. Nougaret, 

 Fresno, Cal., to become head viticulturist of the CaUfornia State Horticultural Com- 

 mission; Lester E. Palmer, Federal Horticultural Board; A. E. Mallorj-, Greeley, 

 Colo., to enter educational work; H. K. Laramore, Plymouth, Ind., to enter com- 

 mercial work; F. M. Wadley, Muscatine, Iowa, to complete his studies for an ad- 

 vanced degree at the Kansas Agricultural College; Neil F. Howard to accept a posi- 

 tion with the Goodyear Rubber Co., at Akron, Ohio; F. R. Cole, Forest Grove, Ore., 

 to resume his studies at Stanford University; C. W. Curtin, D. P. Perry, A. F. Leamy, 

 T. F. Murphy, H. E. Partridge, E. D. Lothrop, all of the corn borer laboratory, Arling- 

 ton, Ma.ss.; W. H. Dumont, to enter college; temporary employees, L. R. Wilbanks, 

 C. P. Smith, G. W. Alexander, J. B. Pope, H. C. Young, A. L. Williamson, O. A. 

 Hammctt, C. H. Brannon, L. W. Brannon, J. P. II. Clayton, B. M. Deavcnport, 

 G. D. Dorrah, W. W. Alexander, J. T. Lewis, P. J. Wyatt, L. N. Juilali, J. W. HUl, 

 Scott C. Lyon, S. F. Gribbs, M. L. MacQueen, W. N. Haley, L. R. T. Cowcn, G. L. 

 Lett. 



There has been considerable reorganization of the Federal Horticultural Board 

 made necessary by the enlargement of its work as a result of tlie nurscr>' stock, plant, 

 and seed quarantine No. .37, and the taking over of the direction of the fumigation 

 of railway cars, freight, etc., on the Mexican border. R. Kent Bcattie has been placed 

 in administrative charge of tiic enforcement of all the quarantines and orders 



