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considered mostly as an enemy of the branches rather than of fruit and foliage. We 

 fear many fruit growers will be slightly mi.«led by the title. 



The country is a large one and it is extremely difficult to make general recommenda- 

 tions which apply equally well to all sections. This is apparent in the somewhat 

 elaborate schedule of spray applications at the outset, admittedh' very elastic, which, 

 nevertheless, recommends some six sprayings in all and gives little indication 

 that in some sections of the country fewer treatments would be nearly, if not quite 

 as effective. Among other things, we find one spray advised "eight to nine weeks 

 after the petals fall (about June 25-30)." The dates are probably those of latitude 

 38° or 39° and four weeks early for latitude 43°, comprising some important fruit 

 growing sections. Dates, if given, should certainly be inclusive for typical regions. 

 Might it not be well to admit that in some important fruit sections serious injury 

 by apple scab and early leaf feeders, such as the plum curculio, canker worms, bud 

 moth, case-bearers and tent caterpillars is extremely unlikely if the trees are sprayed 

 annually for the codhng moth? We fear that in some instances entomologists have 

 recommended more spraying tha.n fruit growers find of value when subjected to the 

 practical test of experience. 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. John A. Grossbeck has given to the American Museum of Natural History 

 his entire collection of Geometrida^, in addition to the series previously donated. 



Mr. T. H. Jones, of the Bureau of Entomology, has been appointed assistant 

 entomologist of the Porto Rico Sugar Planters' Experiment Station at Rio Piedras. 



W. P. Eraser has been appointed lecturer, and P. 1. Bryce assistant, in biology at 

 MacDonald College, St. Anne de Bellevue, Montreal, P. Q. 



According to the Experiment Station Record, the new entomology building of the 

 New Jersey Station and College has been completed and the equipment of the 

 department installed therein. 



Dr. William C. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone, will be 

 the speaker at the annual Commencement exercises at Johns Hopkins University, 

 June 11th. 



An honorary degree in medicine was conferred upon Sir Ronald Ross on the occa- 

 sion of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foimding of the Univer- 

 sity of Athens, April 10th. 



Professors Wilham M. Wheeler and Roland Thaxter, both professors at Harvard 

 University and members of this association, were elected members of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, at a meeting held in Washington April 18th. 



Professor Philip P. Calvert, Dr. Henry Skinner and Dr. W. J. Holland have been 

 appointed delegates from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to the 

 Second International Congress of Entomology, Oxford, England, August 5-10. 



Professor Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., professor of Zoology in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, a prominent investigator, and the author of a number of papers on 

 spiders and insects, died on March 19th of penumonia, at the age of thirty-nine years. 



