December, '12] CURRKXT NOTES 4'J3 



Dr. Guy C. Crampton, Associate Professor of Entomologj' at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, was present at the meetings of the Second International Con- 

 gress of Entomologj' at Oxford, England, last summer. By some error on the part 

 of the secretaries, his residence was given as Glasgow, Scotland. 



The pubhcation of the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society has been 

 resimied after a lapse of twenty-eight years. The fir.st number bears the date of 

 October, 1912, and is Vol. VIII, No. 1. It has twenty pages and one plate. Short 

 articles and collector's notes will be made a special feature of this Bulletin. 



Dr. Robert Matheson has resigned from the Department of Entomology of Cor- 

 nell University to accept a position as Provincial Entomologist of Nova Scotia. He 

 is to be located at Truro. Most of his work is economic, but he will give some atten- 

 tion to teaching during the winter in the Agricultural College at Truro. 



Mr. G. H. Grosvenor, an Enghsh Entomologist, who was Assistant Secretary of 

 the recent International Entomological Congress, was drowned off the Cornish 

 Coast while trying to save the life of another. 



P. W. Mason, a recent graduate from the Michigan Agricultural College, has taken 

 a position as Assistant Entomologist in Purdue University, LaFayette, Ind. Mr. 

 Mason served three j^ears as assistant to Prof. R. H. Pettit, at the Michigan College, 

 and goes to his new work well equipped. 



Dr. Oskar A. Johannsen, Entomologist of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has resigned to accept the appointment of Assistant Professor of Biology in 

 Cornell University in place of Doctor Matheson, resigned. Doctor Johannsen has 

 aheady moved to Ithaca, N. Y., where mail should be sent to him. His present ad- 

 dress is 417 East Buffalo Street. 



Paul Hayhurst, Entomologist of the Arkansas College and Station, resigned several 

 months ago and is now studying horticulture at the University of Ilhnois. Mr. 

 George G. Becker, formerly assistant in the department, has been made Acting Ento- 

 mologist and Acting State Nursery Inspector. 



Mr. C. L. Metcalf, M. S., of the Ohio State University, has entered upon his duties 

 as Assistant Entomologist, of the North Carolina State Department of Agriculture 

 at Raleigh, succeeding his brother Z. P. Metcalf, who is now Entomologist of the 

 North Carohna Agricultural College and Experiment Station at West Raleigh. 



Mr. W. R. McConnell, Assistant in charge of the department of Zoology at the 

 Pennsylvania State College, resigned at the close of the last college year to accept 

 a position in the Division of Cereal and Forage Insects of the Bureau of Entomology. 

 He is now located at Greenwood, Mass. 



Mr. W. Y. King of the Bureau of Entomology, who was formerly engaged in the 

 investigation of the spotted fever tick in ;Montana and later in an investigation of the 

 possible pellagra carriers in South Carolina, has recently registered in the school of 

 Tropical Medicines in Tulane University, taking as his major subject, Medical 

 Entomology, and for minors, Pubhc Health and Parasitology. 



Mr. S. W. Foster, a member of this Association, who for the past six j-ears has been 

 engaged in Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations for the United States Bureau of 

 Entomology, is now engaged in the Insecticide Business on the Pacific Coast as Ento- 

 mologist and Manager of the Insecticide Department of the General Chemical Com- 

 pany of Cahfomia at San Francisco. Mr. Foster will also be engaged in Research 

 and Special Ser\-ice Work as regards insect pests of orchard and truck crops. 



