December, '22] current notes 437 



The following appointments to the Bureau of Entomology are announced: George 

 W. Ellington, Lexington, Miss., July 27, to assist in meat insect investigations; 

 E. A. Vaughn, August 22, grain-insect investigations, Thomasville, Ga. 



Dr. E. D. Ball, director of scientific work in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 is national president of Gamma Sigma Delta, the Agricultural honor society. He 

 installed a chapter at the Pennsylvania State College on October 10. 



Mr. Maurice E. Phillips, dried fruit insect investigations. Bureau of Entomology, 

 has located his laboratory at 433 Weldon Avenue, Fresno, Calif., and during the 

 past summer has been making a special investigation of the Indian-meal moth. 



Messrs. J. A. Harris and H. J. Dodd, field assistants at the Peach Insect Labora- 

 tory of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology at Fort Valley, Georgia, have resigned. Mr. 

 Harris has accepted a position with the State Plant Board of Mississippi. 



In connection with the investigation of the natural control of the larch sawfly in 

 Canada, it has been found that one of the shrews plays an important part. A live 

 shrew kept in captivity consumed 175 cocoons every twenty-four hours. 



Dr. Henry Fox and Prof. W. A. Price of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory force, 

 temporary appointees during the summer, have returned to their collegiate duties. 

 Dr. Fox will return to Mercers University, Macon, Ga., and Prof. Price will return to 

 Purdue University. 



According to Science, Prof. F. L. Washburn of the University of Minnesota, 

 accompanied by Mr. Cadwallader Washburn, sailed on September 8 for Tahiti and 

 other South Sea islands. Prof. Washburn is on sabbatical leave and will make a 

 collection of insects for the university. 



The Entomological Branch arranged an interesting and instructive exhibit of in- 

 sects and their work for the Canadian National Exhibition held at Toronto, August 

 28th to September 9th. An exhibit was also arranged for the Central Canada 

 Exhibition held in Ottawa, September 9-18. 



Professor Herbert Osborn attended a meeting at Woods Hole, Mass., August 4 

 and 5, of a committee raised to work out details of a plan for a federation of Ameri- 

 can Biological Societies. Professor Osborn substituted for Professor B. E. Livings- 

 ton, and represented the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 



According to Science, Dr. Charles A. Kofoid, professor of zoology, University of 

 California, was scheduled to lecture on "Animal Foes of the Human Body," October 

 29, in a course of six free public lectures concerning science and health at the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Cal. 



Prof. Dr. Julius Wagner of the newly founded Entomological Institute, Belgrade 

 University, Jugoslavia, Krunska, F. F., A., desires to correspond with entomologists 

 of this country and to receive their publications. He states that in a short time the 

 Agronomic Section of Belgrade University, will begin publication of the work of the 

 Experimental Stations and the Entomological Institute and that he will be pleased 

 to send these in exchange for American literature. 



Prof. Edward P. Thompson, Riverside, Calif., died May 19 of pneumonia. He 

 was one of the founders of the Association of Economic Entomologists. A brief 

 account of his part in that historic event is given by Dr. Howard on page 29 of this 

 volume. 



Science announces the formal retirement of Professor H. E. Summers as professor 

 of zoology at Iowa State College and State Entomologist, a position to which he was 



