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Current Notes 



Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, was ill for two weeks 

 with bronchitis during the latter part of January. 



■ Dr. W. E. Hinds, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala., visited 

 the Bureau of Entomology during the latter part of February. 



Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, who is now secretary of the National Research Coun- 

 cil, has been elected a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Professor W. C. O'Kane spoke before the New Haven members of the Appalachian 

 Club of New Haven, on the evening of January 28. 



The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on J. D. Tothil of the Canadian 

 Entomological Branch, by Harvard University, early in February. 



Mr. H. A. Gossard of the Ohio Station was ill from rheumatism the latter part 

 of January, and was confined to his bed for several days. 



Mr. George A. Malonay of the Boll Weevil Laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, 

 delivered an address on boll weevil control before the Rhode Island Textile Manufac- 

 turers at Providence, on January 21. 



Mr. R. Heber Howe, Jr., was recently the recipient of the degree of Master of 

 Arts from Harvard University. He has also been appointed one of the coaches of 

 the crew at Harvard. 



Dr. E. P. Felt and Mr. A. F. Burgess were speakers at a tree protection institute, 

 held at the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn., on February 21. 

 About 70 were in attendance. 



According to Official Record of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Mr. George 

 D. Smith of the Bureau of Entomology has resigned as entomological assistant to 

 accept a position with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. Quincy S. Lowry, Assistant Director of the Division of Plant Pest Control, 

 Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, visited Washington, New York and New 

 Haven on a brief vacation in March. 



Mr. A. F. Burgess and Professor W. C. O'Kane addressed the eleventh annual meet- 

 ing of the Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Foresters Association held in Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Boston, March 8 and 9. 



Mr. H. G. Crawford of the Canadian Entomological Branch, left Ottawa February 

 9, on annual leave, and expected to visit the European corn borer laboratory at 

 Arlington, Mass., maintained by the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. J. R. Douglass, scientific assistant of the Bureau of Entomology and assigned 

 to the force of N. F. Howard, Birmingham, Ala., has resigned to take up vocational 

 training in entomology at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



A new motion film showing details of the methods of controlling the boll weevil 

 by dusting with calcium arsenate has recently been completed by the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and will be released shortly. 



Mr. A. G. Dustan of the Canadian Entomological Branch, left the Fredericton, N. B , 

 laboratory on January 7, to continue at MacDonald College his investigations on the 

 diseases affecting the apple sucker and the green apple bug. 



Prof. A. G. Ruggles, State Entomologist of Minnesota and Prof. W. H. Brittain, 

 Provincial Entomologist of Nova Scotia, spent January 2, at headquarters at 

 Ottawa, looking over, the organization of the Branch and meeting members of the 

 Staff. 



