December, '11] CURRENT NOTES 567 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



In the Department of Entomology at the University of Kansas the following addi- 

 tions have recently been made:— Mr. H. B. Hungerford, A. B., University of Kansas, 

 instructor in entomolog^^ On the staff of the state entomologist, Mr. A. J. Spangle 

 assistant state entomologist, and Mr. W. T. Emery, assistant entomologist, both 

 graduates of the University of Kansas. A new research fellowship has ju.st been 

 established by the Board of Regents, and Mr. Roy Eraser, B. S., Toronto, has been 

 elected to this fellowship. There are in the department this year nine candidates 

 for advanced degrees. 



According to Canadian Enlomologisl, Er. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion entomol- 

 ogist of Canada, was married Wednesday, October 11, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 

 Frederick and Lady Borden, i octor Hewitt's many friends in the United States 

 unite with those of Canada in "heartiest congratulations and all good wishes for 

 the happiness of himself and his bride." 



Er. W. A. Riley, associate professor of entomology at Cornell University, gave a 

 popular lecture on insects in connection with the dissemination of disease, at the 

 recent meeting of the Ontario Entomological Society at Guelph, Ont. 



C. P. Smith, assistant professor of botany at the Utah Agricultural College, and a 

 member of this Association, has resigned his position and enten^d Cornell University 

 as a graduate student in plant pathology. His address is 404 Union Avenue, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. 



According to the Experiment Station Record, the following changes have recently 

 been made in the Entomological I epartment of the New Jersey Agricultural Exi)er- 

 iment Station: — Raymond S. Patterson has been appointed assistant eutomologi.st 

 succeeding E. W. Stafford, resigned. E. L. Cickerson has also resigned as assistant 

 to accept a position as instructor in the Newark High School. 



On account of a change in political administration C. H. Baldwin became state 

 entomologist of Indiana on November 1, vice B. S. Douglass. 



Prof. A. L. Lovett, assistant entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Stillwater, Oklahoma, has resigned to become a member of the staff of Professor A. B. 

 Cordley at Corvallis, Oregon. His place has been filled by the appointment of 

 T. E. McElroy, who has previously been engaged in experimenting with insecticides 

 on southern orchard pests in the employ of William Cooper and Nephews of Chicago. 

 There still remains a vacancy in the department on account of the creation of a 

 new position relative to state orchard inspection. 



Professor Alexander D. MacGillivray has resigned his position at Cornell Univer- 

 sity to accept the assistant profes.sorship of Systematic Entomology at the l-niversity 

 of Illinois. The vacancy at Cornell has been filled by the appointment of Mr. J. 

 Chester Bradley as assistant professor of Systematic Entomology. 



Mr J R Watson has been appointed entomologist of the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Gainesville, Florida, vice Dr. E. W. Bergcr, who resigned a few 

 months ago to become state nursery inspector. 



