February, '16] CURRENT NOTES 249 



Entomological News records the death, on November 16, 1915, of Professor Raphael 

 Meldola of London, England, aged 66. Professor Meldola was the author of many 

 entomological papers and a member of several scientific societies. In 1895 and 1896 

 he was president of the Entomological Society of London. 



According to Science, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has been removed from member- 

 ship in the Entomological Society of France, which he has held since 1882, and in 

 the Petrograd Entomological Society. The latter has elected in his place M. Lameere 

 of Brussels, who is now working in the Paris Museum of Natural History. 



Mr. Curtis P. Clausen, Assistant Superintendent of the State Insectary at Sacra- 

 mento, Cal., sailed for the Orient on January 8, for the purpose of collecting parasites 

 and predators for use against scale insects injurious in California. His field will be 

 Japan and Formosa, and possibly China later. 



Mr. J. W. Bailey, Bureau of Entomology, who has had experience with Mr. M. 

 M. High in onion insect investigations at Brownsville, Tex., and who has bee'n a 

 collaborator during the year at Starkville, Miss., entered Cornell University at 

 the beginning of the college year, to complete his course in entomology. 



The Michigan Agricultural College announces a short course or "beekeepers' 

 week," March 13 to 18. Both men and women are welcome. There are no fees and 

 no age limits. Mr. F. Eric Millen is instructor in beekeeping and also State Inspector 

 of Apiaries. 



Mr. George B. Merrill, recently connected with the Gipsy Moth Laboratory at 

 Melrose Highlands, Mass., has accepted the position of Deputy Port and Railway 

 Inspector with the State Plant Board of Florida. Mr. Merrill will be stationed at 

 Tampa. 



Mr. A. C. Mason, until recently connected with the Nursery Inspection work in 

 Florida, has been appointed as Assistant to Dr. E. W. Berger, entomologist of the 

 Florida Plant Board, and will be located at the Plant Board laboratory at Gaines- 

 ville. 



G. E. Bensel, collaborator. Bureau of Entomology, has been appointed Supervising 

 Agriculturist of all of the Southern California Sugar Companies for the purpose of 

 improving the present cultural method of the sugar beet crop, and to supervise 

 the combating of various enemies affecting this crop, especially nematodes. His 

 headquarters are Los Angeles, Cal. 



Mr. Donald J. Caffrey of the Bureau of Entomology, stationed at Maxwell, N. 

 M., visited Washington in December and January and spent his vacation at his 

 home in Massachusetts. On his return he visited the entomological department of 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven, Conn., where he was formerly 

 an assistant . 



Professor Gordon M. Bentley, formerly State Entomologist and Pathologist of 

 Tennessee, has been reinstated. It was announced in the last number of this Jour- 

 nal that Governor Rye had refused to reappoint Professor Bentley. It seems that 

 instead he appointed a nurseryman, Mr. Bing of Smithville, and the office was 

 removed to Smithville. Mr. Bing has now resigned and Professor Bentley has been 

 reappointed to his former position. 



