February, '22] current notes 117 



Mr. T. T. Haack, formerly of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture is now in 

 charge of the North East Laboratory, Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



Professor H. A. Gossard, entomologist of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 recently spent a week of his vacation in Florida, where he was formerly entomologist 

 of the Station. 



Professor S. Mokrzicki, formerly entomologist of the Taurida Zemstvo in Simforo- 

 pol, Russia, and more recently State Entomologist in Bulgaria, has been appointed 

 Professor in the Agricultural High School, Warsaw, Poland. 



At the entomologists dinner held at Prince George Hotel, Toronto, December 30, 

 117 were present. The speakers were Dr. L. O. Howard, Professor J. H. Comstock, 

 Professor Herbert Osborn and Professor Lawson Caesar. 



Mr. James B. Palmer has been appointed instructor in Extension Entomology in 

 the New York State College of Agriculture, to succeed M. D. Leonard, who has 

 taken a position with the Bowker Insecticide Company. 



Dr. W. S. Regan, Assistant Professor of Entomology, Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, has accepted a position in the Department of Entomology, Montana State 

 College, where he will devote half his time to teaching and half to fruit insect inves- 

 tigations. 



According to Science Dr. E. D. Ball has been appointed by Secretary Wallace as the 

 representative of the U. S. Department of Agriculture on the research information 

 service of the National Research Council, to take the place of Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, 

 resigned. 



Dr. L. O. Howard gave the address of the retiring president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science on Tuesday evening, December 27, 

 at the Toronto meeting. His subject was (a) "On Some Presidential Addresses:" 

 (b) "The War Against the Insects, " and was printed in Science for December 30, 1921. 



On account of the severe illness of Professor Robert Newstead, the cooperative 

 investigations on mite-infested wheat, carried on by the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine, the Grain Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, and Mr. E. H. Strickland of the 

 Stored Pests Investigations of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department 

 of Agriculture, have been temporarily discontinued. 



Dr. L. O. Howard gave the first lecture in a course of popular scientific lectures 

 before the Royal Canadian Institute at Toronto, October 29, 1921. His subject 

 was "Some Aspects of Economic Entomology." It is expected that the other lectures 

 in this course will be given during the winter by scientific men from the United 

 States. 



Science is authority for the announcement that a movement has been started to 

 raise a fund of $2,000,000.00 to establish a medical school as a memorial to Major 

 General William C. Gorgas. The present plan is that the fund be contributed by the 

 nation and that the school be situated in Xuscaloosa, Ala., where General Gorgas 

 lived as a boy. Dr. Scale Harris of Birmingham, Ala., is Chairman of the National 

 Committee. 



The following transfers in the U. S. Bureau of Entomology have been announced: 

 J. D. Waugh, Mexican bean beetle control to plant quarantine inspector. Federal 

 Horticultural Board; F. R. White, Mexican bean beetle investigations to sweet 

 potato weevil investigations, at Gulf port. Miss.; John B. Gill, in charge of laboratory, 

 pecan insect investigations, Brownwood, Texas, to Aberdeen, N. C, to investigate 

 plum curculio and other peach insects; A. I. Fabis will have charge of laboratory 

 at Brownwood, Texas. 



