February, '16] CURRENT notes 247 



The cranberry insect laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, formerlj' at Pem- 

 berton, N. J., in charge of Mr. H. B. Scammell, has been transferred to Brown's 

 Mills, N. J. 



J. D. Smith and J. U. Gilmore, Bureau of Entomology, who arrived in Washington 

 on November 4, were compelled to return to their homes on November 27 on account 

 of illness. 



Mr. R.N. Wilson, Bureau of Entomology, who spent a part of November in the 

 office at Washington preparing manuscript, has returned to his field station at Gaines- 

 ville, Fla. 



At the Annual Meeting, December 10, Mr. George H. HolMster was elected presi- 

 dent of the Connecticut Horticultural Society at Hartford. Mr. HoUister is npw 

 superintendent of Keney Park in Hartford. 



Mr. J. Turner Brakeley, a student of mosquitoes, co-worker and friend of the 

 late Dr. John B. Smith, died recently at his home, Lahaway Plantations, N. J., 

 aged sixty-eight years. 



Mr. Irving R. Crawford, Bureau of Entomology, temporarily attached to the 

 range caterpillar investigations at Maxwell, N. M., has resigned from the service 

 in order to engage in other work. 



Mr. R. A. Cushman, Bureau of Entomology, of the North East, Pa., laboratory, 

 has returned to Washington and will be engaged during the winter in monographic 

 work on parasitic Hymenoptera. 



Mr. A. I. Fabis, Bureau of Entomology, connected with the laboratory at Monti- 

 cello, Fla., engaged in pecan insect investigations, has returned to Washington for 

 the purpose of conference and library work. 



According to Experiment Station Record, Mr. D. T. FuUaway resigned June 30, 

 1915, as entomologist of the Hawaii station to become field entomologist of the 

 territorial board of agriculture and forestry. 



The connections of temporary appointees in the Bureau of Entomology, Messrs. 

 C. H. Alden, W. B. Cartwi'ight, and H. L. Dozier,.have been severed on account of 

 expiration of the periods for which they were employed. 



In the work on the potato-tuber moth, which has been carried on for some time 

 by the Bureau of Entomology, thirteen parasites and one hyperparasite have been 

 studied by Mr. John E. Graf. 



Mr. Dwight Iseley, Bureau of Entomology, has retiu-ned to Washington from the 

 North East, Pa., laboratory, where special attention was given during the summer 

 to field experiments in the control of the grape-berry moth. 



Mr. H. H. Kimball, Bureau of Entomology, returned to Agricultural College, 

 Miss., from New Orleans on the 15th of November. He will make a local malaria 

 mosquito survey of the vicinity of the College during the winter. 



Mr. E. H. Siegler, Bureau of Entomology, who is engaged in investigations of the^ 

 codhng moth in Grand Junction, Colo., has arrived in Washington and will be engaged 

 during the winter in the preparation of notes, manuscripts, etc. 



Mr. Samuel D. Gray has been appointed professor of entomology at the Porto 

 Rico College, vice R. I. Smith, whose resignation to take up quarantine work for 

 the Federal Horticultural Board was announced a few months ago. 



