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Current Notes 



Mr. A. F. Burgess visited Hartford, Conn., on April 6, for a conference on gipsy 

 moth work. 



Prof. Herbert Osborn visited Washington, D. C, the latter part of April, and 

 stopped on the way at Harrisburg, Pa. 



Dr. J. M. Swaine addressed the Biological Club, MacDonald College, on Friday 

 evening, February 10, on "Forest Insect Injuries in Canadian Forests." 



Mr. S. Willard Harman has been appointed research assistant in entomology at 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y., vice Clarence R. Phipps, 

 • resigned. 



Prof. J. A. Manter of the Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., has 

 been in the Hartford Hospital nearly all winter receiving treatment for blood poison- 

 ing. 



According to Science, Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, who retired in September 

 from a professorship in entomology at Cornell University, has been nominated for 

 election as alumni trustee. 



According to Science, Dr. E. B. Poulton, Hope professor of zoology at Oxford, 

 was elected president of the British Association of Economic Entomologists at the 

 annual meeting, February 24. 



Mr. J. D. Mitchell of Victoria, Texas, died February 27, 1922. He was an all 

 round naturalist, and has been connected with the U. S. Bureau of Entomology 

 since 1904. 



Mr. W. M. Mingee, field assistant in insect control, employed on truck crop insect 

 investigations since 1919, and stationed at Ocean Springs, Miss., has resigned to 

 engage in business. 



The corn borer laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology located at Scotia, N. Y., 

 has been moved to 1120 Fifth St., Sandusky, Ohio. Mr. J. H. Harmon will be in 

 charge. 



Mr. George D. Smith of the Bureau of Entomology has resigned to accept the 

 position of associate entomologist of the Florida State Plant Board. His headquar- 

 ters will be at Madison. 



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

 J. N. Tenhet, Clarksville, Tenn., to Quincy, Fla.; E. R. Van Leeuwen, camphor 

 scale investigations to apple insect investigations at Medford, Ore. 



Prof. W. C. O'Kane visited New York April 20th, in connection with the work of 

 the Crop Protection Institute and stopped in New Haven for a few hours on his 

 return. 



The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced that it would inaugurate 

 on May 1st, a radio broadcasting service which will include timely advice on the 

 control of insects and plant diseases. 



Dr. L. O. Howard is the author of a chapter entitled "A Fifty-Year Sketch History 

 of Medical Entomology," published in the Jubilee Volume of the American Public 

 Health Association, "Half A Century of Public Health," issued last November. 

 This article will be reprinted in one of the annual volumes of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



