August, '16] CURRENT NOTES 447 



Mr. Harold Westcott has been engaged by the Bureau of Entomology as assistant 

 to D. E. Fink at the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, Norfolk, Va. 



The seventh annual field meeting of the Connecticut Beekeepers' Association was 

 held at the Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., August 3 and 4. 



Mr. James K. Primm, of the University of Illinois, has been appointed to assist 

 D. Isely at North East, Pa., in grape-insect investigations of the Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy. 



Mr. F. A. Johnston, Bureau of Entomology, is in charge of the field station at Big 

 Rapids, Mich., his former headquarters at Hart, Mich., being retained as a sub- 

 station. 



Mr. W. D. Pierce, Bm-eau of Entomology, is on an extended trip to determine the 

 status of the boll weevil, especially in the regions which were invaded for the first 

 time last season. 



Mr. E. R. Selkregg, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has been appointed 

 to assist H. G. Ingerson at Sandusky, Ohio, in grape berry-moth investigations of the 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



On June 7, 1916, Tulane University conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon 

 Dr. W. D. Hunter, in charge of the Southern Field Crop Insect Investigations, of the 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. G. F. Ferris, assistant in entomology at Stanford University, is temporarily 

 located in Washington, D. C, and is devoting considerable time to the study of Coc- 

 cidse with Harold Morrison. 



Mr. J. J. Pillsbury, scientific assistant at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, has recently resigned to accept the position of Assistant State En- 

 tomologist of Rhode Island. 



The states of Idaho and Wisconsin have recently announced a quarantine as 

 regards certain species of pines from the Northeastern States where the white pine 

 blister rust is known to occur. 



Mr. C. M. Packard, of the Bureau of Entomology, recently inspected the Sacra- 

 mento Valley of California in search of Hessian fly and reports that the pest is ap- 

 parently absent there at this time. 



Messrs. T. P. Cassidy and W. B. Williams, students in the Mississippi Agricultural 

 College, have been appointed temporary field assistants of the Bureau of Entomology 

 under B. R. Coad at Tallulah, La. 



Messrs. Hunter H. Kimball and James F. Curry have been appointed temporary 

 field assistants ^f the Bureau of Entomology for assignment to the malaria mosquito 

 investigation under Dr. D. L. Van Dine. 



Mr. A. C. Baker, Bureau of Entomology, has been visiting orchards in the vicinity 

 of Crozet, Staunton, and Winchester, Va., making observations on certain apple 

 aphids, especially Aphis malifolioe Fitch. 



Mr, E. B. Pence has been appointed an assistant for temporary service at the 

 laboratoiy at Clarksville, Tenn., under A. C. Morgan, of the Bureau of Entomology. 



