April, '12] CURRENT NOTES 2S9 



Mr. J. H. Merrill, a graduate of Dartmouth College and a graduate student of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, has been appointed assistant entomologist of 

 the Kansas Station and instructor in the college, succeeding L. M. Peairs, who 

 resigned to accept a position at MorgantovvTi, West Virginia. 



The following delegates were appointed by President S. A. Forbes to represent 

 the Entomological Society of America at the celebration of the one hundredth anni- 

 versary of the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, March 

 19, 20 and 21. Prof. John B. Smith, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.; Dr. 

 L. O. Howard, Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C; Dr. E. P. Felt, State 

 Entomologist, Albany, N. Y.; Prof. W. M. Wheeler, Bussey Institution, Forest 

 Hills, Mass.; Dr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist, New Haven, Conn. 



At the Washington meeting of the-Entomological Society of America, the following 

 officers were elected for 1912: President, S. A. Forbes; First Vice-President, A. D. 

 Hopkins; Second Vice-President, C. P. Gillette; Secretary-Treasurer, A. D. Mac- 

 Gillivray; additional members of executive committee, J. H. Comstock, J. B. Smith, 

 Henry Skinner, Herbert Osborn, E. D. Ball, and P. P. Calvert; member of Committee 

 on Nomenclature for three years, H. T. Fernald. 



The growth of the entomological work of the Canadian Department of Agriculture 

 is indicated by the additions to the staff of the Division of Entomology during the 

 past year. The most notable is the appointment of Mr. J. M. Swaine, M. Sc, B.S.A., 

 formerly on the staff of Macdonald College, Que., as assistant entomologist to take 

 charge of the forest insect investigations. Mr. Swaine's published work on the 

 timber-infesting species of Coleoptera, particularly the Ipidaj, is sufficient to indi- 

 cate his ability to take full advantage of the unexcelled opportunities for work 

 in the Canadian forests. 



At a meeting of the Entomological Society of Washington December 7th, 

 the following officers were elected for 1912: A. L. Quaintance, President; 

 August Busck, First Vice-President; A. N. Caudell, Second Vice-President; E. R. 

 Sasscer, Recording Secretary; S. A. Rohwer, Secretary-Treasurer; H. G. Dyar, 

 Nathan Banks and E. A. Schwarz, additional members of the Executive Committee. 

 Prof. A. L. Quaintance was elected to represent the society at the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Mr. C. S. Spooner and Mr. H. B. Scammell,' assistants in entomology at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, have resigned, the former to accept a position with the State 

 Entomologist of Georgia, and the latter has been appointed county inspector of 

 nurseries and orchards in Colorado. 



Mr. C. W. Howard of Cornell, known in connection \\ith grasshopper work in 

 South Africa, and at present with the Rockefeller Institute, New York City, has 

 been appointed to an instruct orship in the Division of Entomologj-, University of 

 Minnesota. While connected with the Universitj^ Mr. Howard will pursue work 

 leading to a doctor's degree, his major being in Economic Entomology. 



Dr. Creighton Wellman, Director of the Laboratories of Hygiene and Tropical 

 Medicine, New Orleans, La., who is making a study of the Coleopterous family 

 Meloidse, has just returned from a voyage to Central America, where he was sent 

 to recuperate after an illness of several months in the hospital. Doctor Wellman 

 now expects to continue his work. 



The name of Prof. Robert Newstead has been selected by the council for recom- 

 mendation to membership in the Royal Society. 



