June, 08] JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 231 



out by Illustration as well as description. The author is to be congratulated 

 upon having produced a most admirable account of this insect and its allies, 

 the typography and illustrations being most excellent. 



E. P. F. 



Gipsy and Brown-tail Moths, by E. D wight Sanderson, N. H. 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Bull. 136, 1908, p. 93-156. 



This bulletin gives the distribution of both species in New Hampshire. The 

 gipsy moth occupies the southeastern corner of the State, while the brown-tail 

 moth may be found over most of the southern third, having greatly extended 

 its range. Excellent general accounts, with a number of original illustrations, 

 are given of both species, together with the recently enacted law. 



E. P. F. 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. Z. P. Metcalf, Assistant Entomologist to the Michigan Agri- 

 tural Experiment Station, has been appointed Assistant Entomologist 

 to the North Carolina State Board of Agriculture, and wiU enter upon 

 his new duties June 20. 



Mr. S. C. Clapp has been appointed Inspector of Nurseries and 

 Orchards for the Division of Entomology of the North Carolina De- 

 partment of Agriculture, to succeed Mr. L. M. Smith, resigned. Mr. 

 Clapp is a native of North Carolina and has had considerable experi- 

 ence in general nutsery and insecticide work. 



Mr. Ed. Kinney has begun work as Assistant in Entomology and 

 Botany at the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. Mr. Kin- 

 ney has been a student at the Ohio State University and will take the 

 degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture at the end of the present 

 year. 



Mr. C. F. Jackson, A. M., Assistant in Zoology and Entomology at 

 the Ohio State University, has been elected Assistant to the Entomolo- 

 gist in the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. N. E. Shaw, a graduate of the Ohio State University, who has 

 previously been employed as an Assistant Inspector by the Ohio State 

 Board of Agriculture, was elected Chief of the Division of Nursery 

 and Orchard Inspection, and assumed his duties April 1. Mr. W. E. 

 Evans, a graduate of the same institution, has been retained as first 

 Assistant Inspector. 



Mr. J. B. Parker, A. M., Ohio State University, has been elected 

 Assistant Entomologist in the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, and took up the work May 1. 



The summer session of the Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State Uni- 



