August, '22] CURRENT NOTES 321 



Mr. J. C. M. Gardner, Rhodes Research Scholar, who is proceeding to India to 

 join the Indian Forest Service, is spending several days at headquarters. He has 

 been visiting various entomological centres in the United States, and before coming 

 to Ottawa, spent some time with Mr. R. Hopping, in charge of our Forest Insect work 

 in Bristish Columbia. 



According to Science, the University of Maryland at its commencement on June 10, 

 conferred the honorary degree of doctor of science upon Eugene Amandus Schwarz, 

 honorary custodian of Coleoptera in the U. S. National Museum. Dr. Schwarz 

 began official work as a specialist in Coleoptera for the Division of Entomology 

 under the U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture in 1878. 



Mr. William Moore of the Japanese beetle laboratory at Riverton, N. J., spent 

 a week in Birmingham, Ala., going over insecticide tests with N.F. Howard. A large 

 series of new combinations is being tested at the present time, in addition to the 

 standard series of arsenicals which Mr. Howard is now testing, both for insecticide 

 injury and insect control. 



According to Science the gold medal of the Linnaean Society of London, which 

 is given in alternative years to a botanist and a zoologist, was this year awarded to 

 Prof. E. B. Poulton, at the anniversary meeting on May 24. In making the presen- 

 tation, the President, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, referred to Prof. Poulton's long labors 

 in entomology, and his keepership of the Hope Collection at Oxford. 



Mr. R. H. Van Zwaluwenburg, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology and now 

 entomologist of the United Sugar Companies of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, has 

 gone to Cuba to collect specimens of the tachinid parasite of the sugar-cane moth 

 borer for introduction into Mexico. This parasite has already been introduced into 

 Louisiana by the Bureau. Mr. Van Zwaluwenburg is co-operating with the sugar- 

 cane insect laboratory at New Orleans. 



According to Experiment Station Record, the New York State legislature made 

 an appropriation for the purpose of studying the problems of truck crop growers 

 on Long Island, the work to be under the joint direction of the State Station at 

 Geneva and the New York State College of Agriculture. The act carries an appro- 

 priation of $45,840 to provide for the purchase of a tract of land, the erection of a 

 greenhouse, the purchase of equipment and the employment of an entomologist and 

 a plant pathologist to be permanently located at the Station. 



Dr. Charles P. Alexander, of Urbana, 111. • has been elected assistant professor 

 of entomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the resignation last year of Dr. W. S. Regan, who was called to Montana. Dr. 

 Alexander is a graduate of Cornell University and since graduation, he has taught 

 at Cornell, the University of Kansas and the University of Illinois. For two years 

 he had charge of the insect collections at the University of Kansas, and for the past 

 three years has been connected with the Illinois State Natural History Survey, and 

 has had charge of the insect collections. Dr. Alexander has specialized in systematic 

 entomology, particularly in the dipterous family Tipulidae. He will assume his 

 new duties next September. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, spent April 21 to 24 

 inclusive, in Washington, D. C. On April 23d he attended a meeting of representa- 

 tives of biological societies called by the United States National Research Council. 

 On April 24th, by invitation of Dr. Howard, he attended the first session of the 



