94 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 5 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



D. E. Merrill has been appointed assistant in entomology at the New Mexico 

 Agricultural Experiment Station and College. 



G. P. Weldon has resigned as field agent at Grand Junction, Colo., to become 

 deputy state entomologist, with headquarters at Fort Collins. 



Mr. L. M. Peairs, formerly assistant entomologist at the Kansas Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, has accepted a position at the University of West Virginia, and 

 will carry on instruction and experimental work in economic entomology. 



The announcement has been pubhshed that the Second International Congress 

 of Entomology will be held at Oxford, England, August 5-10, 1912. Dr. Malcolm 

 Burr, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London W., is secretary of the executive 

 committee. 



According to Science, Professor Newstead has returned to England from Africa, 

 where he has been studying sleeping sickness in connection with the commission 

 from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 



Colonel WilUam C. Gorgas, well known for his important practical work in abol- 

 ishing mosquitoes in Havana and in the Canal Zone, has been elected president of 

 the Ninth Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, which will meet in Wash- 

 ington in 1913. 



Mr. J. M. Swaine, lecturer in biology at Macdonald College, P. Q., has been ap- 

 pointed assistant entomologist of the Dominion Experimental Farms at Ottawa, 

 and will have charge of the work on forest insects. 



Professor J. H. Comstock, professor of entomology in Cornell University, gave an 

 illustrated pubUc lecture before the Entomological Society of America at the Cos- 

 mos Club, Washington, D. C, on Wednesday evening, December 27th, the subject 

 being "On Some Biological Features of Spiders." Professor Comstock has recently 

 been elected an honorary fellow of the Entomological Society of London. 



Mr. E. W. Rust, A. B. (Stanford), formerly of the Southern California Laboratory 

 at Whittier, arrived in Peru on December 6th, 1911, under contract with the Peru- 

 vian Government for a year and a half, as first assistant entomologist. His address 

 will be Piura (Piura), Peru, S. A. The government entomological force in Peru 

 now consists of Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, Entomologo del Estado; Mr. E. W. Rust, 

 Primer Ayudante al Entomologo del Estado; and Mr. F. G. Sommerkamp, Assis- 

 tente. The work on cotton plagues is being pushed, and it is proposed to erect a 

 laboratory building the coming year. 



F. W. Terry, for seven years assistant entomologist of the Hawaiian Sugar Plant- 

 ers' Experiment Station at Honolulu, T. H., and a member of this Association, died 

 November 7, 1911, of pneumonia, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. Mr. 

 Terry once spent several months in Hongkong while some insect parasites were 

 being procured in the East Indies. 



Mr. L. H. Worthley, for several years assistant forester of Massachusetts in charge 

 of the gypsy moth work, entered the employ of the Bureau of Entomology January 



