446 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 9 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. W. F. Fiske, who is now in London, has written that he will be in the United 

 States on the 15th of July. 



Mr. A. H. Robinson has been appointed field assistant in the Bureau of Entomology 

 with headquarters at Plymouth, Ind. 



According to Aynerican Fruits, "Dr. A. J. Cook, formerly Horticultural Commis- 

 sioner of California, is seriously ill of cancer." 



Geo. S. Demuth, Bureau of Entomology, is at Fennville, Mich., continuing his 

 work on the effects on bees of spraying fruit trees. 



Mr. R. M. Garner has been engaged by the Bureau of Entomology to assist in work 

 on truck crop insect investigations at Norfolk, Va. 



Mr. Wm. N. Ankeney, from Ohio State University, is field assistant of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, and stationed at Big Rapids, Mich. 



Mr. August Busck, of the Bureau of Entomology, has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence to make a short visit to his old home in Denmark. 



B. R. Coad, A. C. Morgan, and D. L. Van Dine, of the Bureau of Entomolog}-, were 

 in Washington for conferences during the month of May. 



Mr. A. D. Borden, of the Bureau of Entomology, recently visited some large growers 

 of greenhouse plants in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersej'. 



Dr. C. H. T. Townsend, of the Bureau of Entomology, accompanied by Carl 

 Heinrich, made an extensive collecting trip in New Mexico during July. 



Professor J. H. Comstock has been elected as one of three delegates to represent 

 the faculty of Cornell University at the meeting of the board of trustees. 



Dr. L. O. Howard left Washington on June 5 for a trip of about six weeks' duration 

 to the southern and western field laVjoratories of the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. James I. Hambleton, of the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed 

 field assistant of the Bureau of Entomology, and will be stationed at Madison, Wis. 



According to Science, Dr. David D. Whitney has been appointed professor and Pro- 

 fessor Homer B. Latimer associate professor of geology at the University of Nebraska. 



Professor Herbert Osborn, of the Ohio State University, is engaged in special 

 research at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Me., during the summer 

 vacation. 



Mr. A. T. Speare, Bureau of Entomology, made a short trip to Hagerstown and 

 Smithsburg, Md., in connection with observations on a fungous disease of Eulecanium 

 nigrofasciatum. 



Mr. G. W. Barber, of the Bureau of Entomology, recently attached to the Charles- 

 ton, Mo., field station, has been transferred to the range-caterpillar work, located at 

 Maxwell, N. Mex. 



