August, '11[ CURRENT NOTES 415 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



At the recent session of the Nebraska legislature a bill (H. R. 576) was passed 

 making important changes in the administration of the office of State Entomologist. 

 Previously, the Professor of Entomology of the University of Nebraska (Prof. 

 L. Bruner) was authorized by law to act as state entomologist, and the legislature 

 made appropriations from the general fund of the state to cover the necessary expenses 

 for carrying on entomological work, which were expended under the direct control 

 and supervision of the acting state entomologist. Under the new arrangement, 

 the control of the office is vested in the Board of Regents of the University, who are 

 empowered to designate one of the teaching staff of the University to act as state 

 entomologist, and to administer and expend the funds appropriated for entomologi- 

 cal work from the general fund of the state as they do university funds generally. 

 The Board of Regents are also empowered to make, from time to time, such rules 

 and regulations governing the duty of the entomologist to the people of the state 

 as it deems wise, and are required to see that such services shall not interfere with the 

 prime duties of the entomologist as a teacher and investigator. The legislature ap- 

 propriated a sum of $5,000.00 for the biennium to be expended in the investigation 

 and control of the insect pests of the state. Prof. Lawrence Bruner was subse- 

 quently designated by the board to be state entomologist. The complete working 

 staff of the office at the present time is as follows: Prof. L. Bruner, entomologist; 

 Prof. Myron H. Swenk, assistant entomologist; Mr. J. T. Zimmer, field expert, and 

 Messrs. R. W. Dawson and L. M. Gates, laboratory and field assistants. The 

 work of the current year consists largely of an intensive study of grasshopper con- 

 trol measures while special investigations of the pine-tip moth, wheat-root aphid, 

 melon aphis and other important insect pests are also in progress. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt, government entomologist of New South Wales, has been 

 appointed Lecturer in Economic Entomology to the Chair of Agriculture of the Syd- 

 ney University. This appointment is for a period of seven years, and carries a 

 salary of five hundred dollars. The work will be carried out in conjunction with Mr. 

 Froggatt's present official work, and the appointment is the first of its kind in Aus- 

 tralia. Mr. Froggatt has also been elected president of the Linna;an Society of 

 New South Wales, the leading scientific society in Australia. Since the death of 

 its founder, Sir William Macleaj', nearly twenty years ago, no entomologist has until 

 now held the office of president. 



At Clemson College, S. C, the entomological work in the college and station 

 have been combined, and A. F. Conradi has been made professor of entomology 

 in the college in addition to his work as station entomologist. W. P. Gee has been 

 appointed assistant professor of entomology in the college. 



According to Science, William B. Herms, assistant in entomology at the Uni- 

 versity of Cahfomia, is on a \isit to Europe, where during the summer he expects 

 to visit the principal parasitological laboratories of England, France, Germany and 

 Italy. He will also represent the University of California as a delegate to the Inter- 

 national Hygiene Exhibit at Dresden. 



In June, 1911, Mr. Paul Hayhurst was made professor of entomology at the 

 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark., and also entomologist of the station, 

 and state nursery inspector. Mr. George G. Becker has been appointed assistant. 



