April, '11] CURRENT NOTES 295 



Science states that according to Reuter's Agency the British South Africa Com- 

 pany has decided ujjon the despatch of a special commission to investigate sleeping 

 sickness in Rhodesia. The commission will consist of Dr. Aylmer May, principal 

 medical officer of northern Rhodesia; Dr. A. Kinghorn, of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine; Doctor Leach of the northern Rhodesia Medical Service; Mr. 

 O. Silverlock, entomologist, and Mr. Jollyman, bacteriologist. 



At the Oregon Agricultural College a Biological Club has recently been formed, 

 the charter members consisting of the Bacteriology, Zoology, Entomology, Botany 

 and Plant Pathologj' departments. The object of the organization is to promote 

 interest in the various subjects, both systematic and economic, which will fall under 

 the various departments. 



The Oregon Legislature at its last session appropriated the annual sum of $L5,000 

 for the purpose of investigation of crop pests. This fund is to be divided into three 

 parts; the Entomology, Horticultural and Plant Pathology departments each 

 receiving a third. This is for the purpose of carrying on experimental work upon 

 all economic problems within the state, and is probablv the first appropriation 

 made in any state for such a purpose alone. 



The people of the Hood River Valley, Ore., have entered upon a cooperative 

 plan whereby an expert furnished by the college, but whose salary will be paid by 

 the Hood River fruit growers, will be stationed at Hood River. The duties of the 

 expert will be to investigate such insect pests and plant diseases as become injurious 

 to the fruit orchards. This expert is Prof. W. H. Lawrence, formerly director of the 

 Puyallup sub-station of the Washington Experiment Station. 



Ll^pwards of 150 students are at present enrolled in the various classes in ento- 

 mology at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. This is the largest 

 enrollment in the history of the department, and has been brought about both by 

 the increased attendance at the college and the constantly increasing number of 

 students taking up agricultural subjects. The teaching force of the department 

 consists of Wilmon Newell, professor; E. E. Scholl, assistant professor, and Harper 

 Dean, instructor. 



The enrollment in entomology the present terra at the University of California 

 is 426. Eighteen different courses are offered during this semester. The largest 

 classes are in general entomology, ecology, apiculture, medical entomology and 

 spraying, showing that the purely economic subjects are given the preference by 

 students. 



Mr. J. C. Bridwell will spend the next six months in southern California, largely 

 in the Imperial Valley, and Prof. H. J. Quayle, who has been assigned to investi- 

 gation work the last three years at Whittier, has returned to Berkeley and resumed 

 his class work. 



Prof. E. W. Berger, entomologist of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 gave a talk, illustrated by lantern slides, before the American Pomological Society 

 in session at Tampa, Fla., on the evening of February 10, 1911. 



E. F. Hitcliings, state entomologist of Maine, has been appointed professor of 

 horticulture at the University of Maine, at Orono. He will continue to hold the 

 position of state entomologist. 



