80 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 1 



Current Notes 



CONDUCTED BY THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR 



A new elective course on "Insects and Disease" is being given by Prof. V. 

 L. Kellogg, in the Department of Eutomologj" of Leland Stanford University. 

 It is open to students who have had some previous work in biology and con- 

 sists of one lecture and one laboratory period, of three hours, a week. Forty 

 students are now taking this course, most of them being upper classmen who 

 have selected majors in physiology, zoology or entomology. 



The lectures cover the etiology of the insect-disseminated diseases, the 

 relations between the insects and the disease germs and the methods of fight- 

 ing and controlling the insects. The laboratory work covers the structure 

 and life history of the insects and the determination of disease parasites. 



Mr. A. A. Girault, who for several years has been engaged in the inves- 

 tigation of insects injurious to fruit for the Bureau of Entomology, has 

 resigned and accepted a position with Dr. S. A. Forbes, Stat§ Entomologist 

 of Illinois. 



Mr. H. L. Viereck has accepted a position with Prof. H. A. Surface, State 

 Zoologist of Pennsylvania, and will take charge of the insect laboratory. 

 Address, Capitol Building, Harrisburg, Pa. 



Mr. G. P. Weldon has resigned as Assistant Entomologist to the Maryland 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, to accept the position of Assistant Ento- 

 mologist in Colorado, and will have charge of the western slope fruit inves- 

 tigations. He enters upon his new duties February 15. Address, Grand 

 Junction, Colo. 



The next issue of Wytsman's Genera Insectorum, to be published in March, 

 comprises a catalogue of the Mallophaga of the world by Prof. V. L. Kellogg 

 of Stanford University, California. Twelve hundred and fifty-.seven species 

 are recorded, fifty-two of which occur on mammals and the remainder on 

 birds. About one fourth of the total number have been found on North 

 American hosts. The catalogue gives all recorded host species and geograph- 

 ical distribution of each species. 



Mr. D. K. McMillan has resigned his position as assistant to the State 

 Zoologist of Pennsylvania, Prof. H. A. Surface, and accepted a position with 

 the Bureau of Entomology. He is now engaged in investigating truck crop 

 insects at Brownsville, Texas. 



Mr. R. L. Webster, who has just completed his studies in entomology at the 

 University of Illinois, has accepted a position under Prof. H. E. Summers,. 

 State Entomologist of Iowa. Address, Ames, Iowa. 



Mailed, March 2, 1908. 



