492 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 5 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. J. L. Webb of the Bureau of Entomology, is now located at Crowley, La., 

 where he is engaged in Southern Field Crop Investigations. 



Mr. Bentley B. Fulton has been appointed assistant entomologist of the New 

 York Agi-icultural Experiment Station at Geneva. 



. Mr. H. J. Webb has been appointed assistant in Entomology, at the Utah Agri- 

 cultural College and Experiment Station. 



Mr. W. H. Goodwin, Assistant Entomologist of the Ohio Station, is taking up 

 work at the Ohio State University leading to the Master's Degree. 



Mr. W. R. Thompson of Cornell University, has been detailed by Dr. L. 0. Hoyrard 

 of the Bureau of Entomology, to study the Mediterranean fruit fly in Sicily, where he 

 is now engaged in this work. 



Mr. D. E. Fink of the department of Entomology, Cornell University, has accepted 

 a position with the Bureau of Entomology, and is now located in Norfolk, Virginia, 

 studying the pests of vegetables. 



Mr. W. P. Gee has resigned as assistant professor of Entomologj^ at Clemson 

 College and Station, South Carolina, to take up graduate work at the University of 

 California. 



Miss Orrel M. Andrews of Fairmount College has been appointed Research Fellow 

 in the Department of Entomology of the University of Kansas for the coming year. 



Mr. A. G. Ruggles, Assistant Entomologist at the Minnesota Experiment Station 

 is absent from the Station on a seven months' leave of absence, being engaged during 

 that time by the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Disease Commission, with hea- 

 quarters at Philadelphia. 



Mr. L. M. Sedgwick of Kansas City, Mo., has presented a valuable collection 

 of tropical insects to the Entomological Museum of the University of Kansas. When 

 mounted and placed in cabinets it will be known as the "L. M. Sedgwick Collection." 



Mr. W. F. Schlupp, who spent several months with the Entomological Depart- 

 ment of the Ohio Station during the summer, has taken up work with the Bureau 

 of Plant Pathology, U. S. D. A., and is making an investigation of Ohio with refer- 

 ence to the chestnut blight. 



Mr. J. S. Houser of the Ohio Station, received his Master's Degree in Science from 

 Cornell University in June. He has recently been raised to the rank of associate 

 entomologist. 



Mr. R. D. Whitmarsh, Assistant Entomologist of the Ohio Station, has a leave 

 of absence for a few months, and the first of November goes to Columbus for post- 

 graduate study leading to the Doctor's Degree from the Ohio State University. 



Mr. J. L. King of the Ohio Station, who has had a laboratory at Gypsum in the 

 orcharding district along the lake shore during the spring, summer and fall months, 

 will remove his headquarters to Wooster for the winter. 



Mr. Oscar C. Bartlett, B. S. 1909, Ph. D. 1912, and formerly laboratory assistant 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, has been appointed Assistant State Entomologist 

 of Arizona. His address hereafter will be Phoenix, Ariz. 



