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Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Professor S. W. Williston will make a paleontological expedition to South Africa 

 this fall. 



Mr. C. S. Brimley of Raleigh, N. C, has been elected president of the North Caro- 

 lina Academy of Science. 



Dr. J. S. Ward has been appointed inspector of Apiaries for the State of Tennessee, 

 with headquarters at Nashville. 



Mr. "W. J. Price is now acting State Entomologist of Virginia, in place of Dr. E. A. 

 Back who has resigned, to take up work in the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr.B. H.Walden, Assistant in Entomology at the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, spent his vacation in Western Ontario, Can. 



According to the report of G. M. Bentlej', State Entomologist of Tennessee, there 

 are 365 nurseries in Tennessee, with an annual income of $3,000,000. 



Chas. T. Greene, Philadelphia, Pa., is now assistant in the Division of Forest 

 Insect Investigations of the Bureau of Entomology. His specialty is Diptera. 



Professor John Craig, professor of Horticulture in Cornell University and Editor 

 of the National Nurserymen, died August 12th, at Siasconsett, Mass., aged 48 years. 



According to Science a valuable collection of British Lepidoptera made by the 

 late John A. Finzi, has been presented by his widow and daughter, to the Zoological 

 Museum at University College, London. 



Professor F. W. Rane was appointed by Governor Foss of Massachusetts, a dele- 

 gate to the Second International Congress of Entomology at Oxford, England, held 

 last August. 



H. Maxwell Lefroy, Entomologist to the Government of India, located at Calcutta, 

 has been appointed Professor of Entomology at the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology, South Kensington, London. 



When Professor A. J. Cook became Commissioner of Horticulture in CaUfornia a 

 serial publication called "The Monthly Bulletin" was started. The ninth number 

 has just been issued, making altogether 707 pages of interesting and valuable matter. 



Mr. Howard Evarts Weed, a member of this association, formerly Entomologist 

 at the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, and now a landscape architect in 

 Chicago, is the author of a book entitled "Modern Park Cemeteries," pubhshed by 

 R. J. Haight & Co., Chicago. 



Mr. F. W. L. Sladen F. E. S., formerly of Ripple Court Apiary near Dover, England, 

 has been appointed assistant in Apiculture at the Experimental Farms, Ottawa, Can. 

 Mr. Sladen is a practical beekeeper as well as a student of entomologj' and his work will 

 be under the Dominion Entomologist, Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt. 



