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Current Notes 



Mr. Paul M. Gilmer has been appointed assistant in entomology and economic 

 zoology at the University of Minnesota. 



Prof. E. W. Stafford of the Mississippi Agricultural College is teaching entomology 

 at Purdue University during the present summer season. 



According to Science, Oberlin College conferred the honorary degree of doctor of 

 science on Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg on June 21. 



According to Science, Dr. R. P. Bigelow has been promoted to the professorship of 

 zoology and parasitology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



According to Experiment Station Record, Mr. John H. Harman has been appointed 

 extension specialist in entomology at the Michigan College and Station. 



According to Experiment Station Record, Mr. Clarence E. Mickel has been appointed 

 assistant in economic entomology at the Minnesota University and Station. 



Mr. W. V. Balduf of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta,tion, Wooster, Ohio, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of entomology at the University of Illinois. 



The following temporary appointments have been made in the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology: W. D. Mecum, Madison, Wis; J. M. Reilly, Kingsville, Tex; H. L. Weather- 

 by, Birmingham, Ala. 



An extension has been made this summer to the Aylmer, Quebec, laboratory, 

 Division of Forest Insects, in order to carry on additional biological studies. 



Miss Mabel Colcord, Librarian of the Bureau of Entomology, attended the annual- 

 meeting of the American Library Association at Detroit and Ann Arbor, Mich., 

 June 26. 



Prof. John J. Davis, Lafayette, Ind., visited Washington, D. C, the first week in 

 ajune to confer with officils of the Bureau of Entomology on insect problems of inter, 

 state interest. 



Mr. W. S. Abbott, who is in charge of the Insecticide Testing Station at Vienna, Va. 

 will speak before the Insecticide and Disinfectant Manufacturers' Association in 

 Chicago, June 12-13. 



According to Science, Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, permanent Secretary of the National 

 Research Council, gave the annual Phi Beta Kappa address at the University of 

 Virginia on June 13. 



Mr. H. R. Painter of the Bureau of Entomology visited the Ohio Station recently 

 in connection with making records on the date of seeding wheat plots on the severa 

 district and county farms. 



Science records the death of Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, director of the department of 

 marine biology of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Mayer died June 25, at Key West, 

 Fla., aged fifty-four years. 



Mr. A. F. Burgess visited New Haven on June 5 for a conference over extending the 

 gipsy moth quarantine on account of the additional territory found infested by the 

 scouting operations of the past winter. 



