October, '11] CURRENT NOTES 487 



run as high as $10,000 annually in cities wth thirty to forty thousand 

 inhabitants. This is only one instance of the marked benefits which 

 might result from such an enactment. It would surely appear as 

 though all fair minded citizens would recognize the necessity for such 

 protection even though it might mean unfortunate restrictions in the 

 case of a few. A most effective method of conserving our natural 

 resources is to exclude or check the spread of destructive natural agents 

 which may either cause enormous losses on account of the direct injury 

 inflicted or necessitate heavy taxation if efficiently controlled. 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. Alfred B. Champlain, assistant in entomology at the Connecticut Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, resigned, October 1, to accept a new position in the Division 

 of Economic Zoology at Harrisburg, Pa., where he was form3rIy employed. In 

 the future Mr. Champlain will have charge of the insectary and the breeding work 

 of the Division. 



Forest Insect Station No. 5 has been established at Yreka, Calif., by the Division 

 of Forest Insect Investigation of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. Mr. H. E. Burke is in charge, and is assisted by Agents A. G. Angell, 

 J. J. Sullivan and J. B. Riggs. 



Prof. E. D. Sanderson, Dean of the College of Agriculture of West Virginia Uni- 

 versity, has also been appointed Director of the Experiment Station, to succeed 

 J. H. Stewart, who has recently resigned. The new appointment takes effect Jan. 

 1, 1912. 



E. G. Titus received at Commencement time the degree of Doctor of Science from 

 Harvard University, where he has been studying for the past year, and he has since 

 been made profe.ssor of entomology at the Utah Agricultural College. 



According to an announcement in Science, plans are now being made for a new 

 entomology building at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., the same to be two 

 stories high and to contain cla.ss rooms and museum, as well as space for Experi- 

 ment Station work. 



Dr. Creighton Wellman, formerly professor in the laboratory of Tropical Medicine 

 at Oakland, Cahfornia, and a student of the Coleoptera, has been appointed to a 

 regular professorship at Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 



Mr. Wesley O. Hollister, a graduate of the Connecticut Agricultural College at 

 Storrs, has recently accepted a position with Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. 

 He will have charge of field tests with insecticides and preparing exhibit sets of 

 injurious insects. 



