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Current Notes 



Mr. W. V. King, Bureau of Entomology, stationed at New Orleans, attended a 

 conference at Washington on January 3. 



Mr. A. H. Jennings, Bureau of Entomology, was on furlough for the months of 

 December, January and February, on account of ill health. 



Mr. T. E. HoUoway, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of the laboratory at New 

 Orleans, was in Washington during the month of February. 



The following agents of the Bureau of Entomology were in Washington for con- 

 ference during the month: F. C. Bishopp, A. C. Morgan, E. A. McGregor, B. R. Goad, 

 G. L. Garrison and T. F. McGehee. 



Mr. A. W. Yates, apiary inspector of Hartford, Conn., has been engaged to give 

 a course in beekeeping at the Connecticut Agricultural College at Storrs. 



Mr. L. P. Rockwood, Bureau of Entomology, whose address was originally Room 

 416, Vermont Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has removed to Forest Grove, Ore. 



Mr. E. L. Barrett, Bureau of Entomology, has been transferred from the Pasadena, 

 Cal., laboratory to assist Mr. E. G. Kelly at the Wellington, Kan., Field Laboratory. 



Dr. L. O. Howard planned to visit the field stations located at Orlando and Gaines- 

 ville, Fla., Thomasville, Ga., and Columbia, S. C, during the early part of March. 



Mr. L. G. Gentner, formerly of the Branch Experiment Station at Medford, Ore.> 

 is now a member of the Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madi- 

 son, Wis. 



Dr. Julius Nelson, Professor of Biology at Rutgers College since 1888, died from 

 an attack of pneumonia at his home in New Brunswick, February 16, aged 58. 



Prof. H. A. Siu-face, Economic Zoologist of Pennsylvania, gave four lectures on 

 wild animal life before the students of the Yale Forest School the latter part of Feb- 

 ruary. 



Prof. S. W. Williston has recently been elected a fellow of the American Academy 

 of Ai-ts and Sciences, and a correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. 



Mr. C. K. Wildermuth, Bureau of Entomology, recently attached to the staff at 

 the Maxwell, N. M., field station, has resigned in order to continue his studies. 



Mr. Daniel G. Tower, Bureau of Entomology, recently located at the West La- 

 fayette, Ind., field station, has been transferred to the office of Tropical and Sub- 

 tropical Fruit Investigations. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, attended the annual convention of the 

 National Beekeepers' Association at Chicago, 111., February 22-24. Prof. Francis 

 Jager was elected president. 



The Nashville, Tenn., Field Laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, was moved to 

 Knoxville, Tenn., about March 1, 1916. The present staff at Nashville was trans- 

 ferred to the Knoxville Station. 



