February, '11] CURRENT NOTES 135 



are continuing in his steps. There have been several good papers on insect pho- 

 tography in recent years, and we hope to see this method of illustrating natural 

 ()bj(>cts greatly extended in the near future. We should learn to use the camera 

 rather than the printed page. This bulletin is evidently intended as a somewhat 

 technical one, it hardly appealing to the average farmer. Nevertheless, such bulle- 

 tins find a place in demonstrating new methods and indirectly may be of great ser- 

 vice to the agriculturist. 



Current Notes 



Mr. A. G. Ruggles, instructor in entomology at Minnesota University, has recently 

 been promoted to the grade of Assistant Professor. 



Prof. E. F. Hitchings, State Entomologist of Maine, has been I'eappointed by the 

 new administration under Governor Plaisted. 



Mr. Z. P. Metcalf, Assistant Entomologist of the North Carolina Department of 

 Agriculture, recently spent three weeks at the Ohio State University doing some 

 research work on Homoptera. 



Mr. J. B. Parker, Assistant in Entomology at the Kansas Station, has resigned to 

 accept the chair of biology in the Catholic University at Washington, D. C. 



Prof. F. L. Washburn, State Entomologist of Minnesota, gave the annual public 

 address before the Minneapolis meeting of the Entomological Society of America on 

 the evening of December 28. 



Mr. R. W. Braucher of the Bureau of Entomology has resigned to accept a fellow- 

 ship in the entomological department of Cornell University. 



Mr. Francis B. Milliken has recently been appointed Assistant Entomologist at 

 the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station in place of Harry Evans, who resigned 

 a short time ago. 



Mr. V. I. Safro, of the Bureau of Entomology, has recently been appointed Assist- 

 ant in Entomology at the Oregon College and Station. 



According to Entomological News, Mr. J, Chester Bradley is Special Assistant 

 Entomologist of the Georgia State Board of Entomology, Atlanta, Ga., and has 

 undertaken a preliminary catalogue of the insects of that state. 



Dr. Henry Skinner, who for twenty-one years was editor of Entomological News, 

 has resigned, and the associate editor, Dr. Philip P. Calvert, has been chosen as 

 his successor. The new associate editor is E. T. Cresson, Jr. 



Mr. Henry L. Viereck, of the Bureau of Entomology, a specialist on the parasitic 

 Hymenoptera, with headquarters at the new National Museum at Washington, has 

 been at the Gypsy Moth Parasite Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass., for several 

 weeks, studying some of the Ichneumon parasites of the gypsy and brown-tail moths. 



We regret to learn, through a recent communication from his son, that Edwyn 

 Carlos Reed, director of the Museo de Concepcion and foreign member of our asso- 

 ciation, died November 5, in Chile. 



