June, '16] CURRENT NOTES 383 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, of Ottawa, Canada, visited the 

 Bureau of Entomology on March 16. 



Dr. E. F. PhilUps, of the Bureau of Entomology, addressed the New York Farmers 

 on April 4 at their annual dinner in New York City. 



Dr. Back, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to Washington and is engaged in 

 writing up his general report on the Mediterranean fruit-fly. 



The death of Thomas H. Cunningham, Inspector of Fruit Pests for British 

 Columbia, occured February 16th. {Canadian Entomologist). 



Dr. L. O. Howard has recently been elected a member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences and President of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Geoffrey Meade- Waldo, the author of many papers on the Hymenoptera, and 

 for some time connected with the British Museum, died March 11. 



Mr. George S. Demuth, Bureau of Entomology, attended the meeting of the Penn- 

 sj'lvania State Bee-Keepers' Association at Lancaster on March 3-4. 



Mr. C. Joseph Manter of California has been appointed field assistant of the Bureau 

 of Entomology for work in that state on sugar-beet and truck-crop insects. 



Mr. Harold L. Weatherby of Alabama has been appointed field assistant in the 

 Bureau of Entomology, for work at Rocky Ford, Colo., where he was employed a few 

 years ago. 



Mr. B. R. Leach, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to his permanent head- 

 quarters at Winchester, \a., where he will continue his investigations of the woolly 

 apple aphis. 



Messrs. G. H. Cowan and M. S. Stanley have been appointed temporary field as- 

 sistants. Bureau of Entomology, in connection with the work on the Rocky Mountain 

 spotted-fever tick. 



Mr. A. J. Ackermann, Bureau of Entomology, has been in Washington for a few 

 weeks preparing his notes on the subject of nursery insects, and has now returned to 

 his headquarters at West Chester, Pa. 



Mr. H. B. Scammell, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of the laboratory at Brown 

 Mills, N. J., spent a few days in Washington and has now retm'ned to his headquarters 

 to resume his studies of cranberry insects. 



Mr. J. G. Hester, Bureau of Entomology, who assisted Mr. M. M. High in his 

 work on onion insects and truck-crop pests last year, has been reappointed and will 

 resiune work at Brownsville, Texas, and vicinity. 



Mr. W. F. Fiske, who has been in British East Africa for some time in the investiga- 

 tion of the bionomics of Tsetse flies for the Imperial Bureau of Entomologj% has re- 

 turned to England by way of Kliartum and Cairo. 



Mr. E. H. Siegler, Bureau of Entomology, who has been in Washington for the 

 past few months, has now returned to his field headquarters at Grand Junction, Colo., 

 where he is engaged in codhng moth investigations. 



Dr. E. D. Ball has resigned as Director of the Utah Agricultm'al Experiment Sta- 

 tion, and hopes to soon take up entomological work again. Unless a good opening 

 occurs, he will probablj^ spend a year in graduate study. 



