April, '16] CURRENT NOTES 319 



Professor G. M. Bent ley, State Entomologist of Tennessee, with headquarters 

 at Knoxville, is Secretary-Treasurer of the Tennessee Florists' Association. 



Mr. C. W. Creel, of the Forest Grove, Ore., field station. Bureau of Entomology, 

 was in Washington during the month of January. 



Mr. T. D. Urbahns of the Pasadena, Cal., field laboratory. Bureau of Entomology, 

 visited Washiligton during the month of January for the first time in several years. 



Mr. F. C. Bishopp, Bureau of Entomolog>^, in charge of the laboratory at Dallas, 

 Texas, underwent a serious operation at that place during February. His condition 

 is greatly improved. 



Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend of the Bureau of Entomology gave an illustrated 

 lecture on Verruga before the students of the medical school of Howard University, 

 Washington, D. C, January 15. 



Mr. G. G. Ainslie of the Nashville, Tenn., field laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, 

 visited Washington during the early portion of January for the purpose of consulta- 

 tion and preparation of manuscript. 



Mr. A. J. Ackerman, Bureau of Entomology, who has been working on nursery 

 insects at West Chester, Penn., has recently visited Washington in connection with 

 the preparation of his field notes. 



Mr. E. W. Geyer, Bureau of Entomology, who has been in Washington preparing 

 manuscript on the biology of the codling moth in New Mexico, has retm-ned to his 

 field station at Roswell. 



According to Science, it is planned to erect a monument on the Roman Campagna 

 in memory of Prof. Angelo Celli, who made important investigations there regarding 

 malaria and its transmission by mosquitoes. 



According to Science, Mr. C. A. McLendon, formerly field pathologist of the South 

 Carolina Agricultm-al Experiment Station, has accepted a position as expert in cotton 

 breeding with the Georgia State Board of Entomology, Atlanta, Ga. 



Mr. C. M. Packard, Bureau of Entomology, formerly attached to the staff at the 

 Wellington, Kan., Field Laboratory, has been transferred and detailed to assist Mr. 

 T. D. Urbahns at the Pasadena, Cal., Field Laboratory. 



Mr. George S. Demuth, Bm-eau of Entomology, attended the annual meeting of 

 the Kentucky Beekeepers' Association at Lexington, January 5, and of the New 

 Jersey Beekeepers' Association at New Brunswick, February 10-11. 



According to Science, Prof. V. L. Kellogg, who has been serving as a director of 

 the Belgium Relief Commission in Brussels for the past eight months, has returned 

 to take up his work at Stanford University. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, director of the Carnegie Museum, gave the principal address 

 at the formal opening of Alden Hall of Biology at Allegheny College, February 4. 

 His subject was "Biology a Cultural and Practical Study." 



Prof. Stephen Alfred Forbes, of the University of Illinois, and Prof. Samuel Wendell 

 Williston, of the University of Chicago, were elected honorary fellows of the Ento- 

 mological Society of America at its meeting at Columbus, Ohio. 



