August, '16] CURRENT NOTES 449 



Dr. W. D. Hunter visited the laboratories at New Orleans, Mound, Tallulah, and 

 Dallas during June. With Dr. Howard he attended the annual field meeting of the 

 Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association at New Orleans on June 8. 



Mr. A. G. Davis, a student of Tulane University, has been appointed a temporary 

 field assistant in the Bureau of Entomology for service in connection with the ship- 

 ment of parasites of the sugar-cane borer from Cuba to the laboratory at New Or- 

 leans. 



Mr. Edward P. Van Duzee, instructor in Entomology at the University of Cali- 

 fornia at Berkeley, has resigned to accept the position of Curator of the Department 

 of Entomology of the California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. 



Mr. H. K. Laramore, a graduate of Purdue University, formerly field assistant at 

 Knox, Ind., where he was engaged in investigation on the cotton thrips, will take 

 charge of the pickle-disease insect-problem station of the Bureau of Entomology at 

 Plymouth, Ind. 



Mr. R. A. Cushman, Bureau of Entomology, engaged in investigations of parasites 

 of deciduous fruit insects, has returned to his field headquarters at North East, Pa., 

 where he will continue his studies of Hymenopterous parasites of the grape-berry 

 moth and other insects. 



Mr. R. N. Wilson, Bm-eau of Entomology, reports that experiments relating to 

 Laphygma frugiperda carried on in Florida and Georgia during the past winter indi- 

 cate that the insect did not succeed in surviving the winter much north of the lati- 

 tude of Gainesville, Fla. 



Mr. F. X. Williams, Bureau of Entomology, who has been employed on the Gipsy 

 Moth Work, has accepted a position with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment 

 Station. He will proceed to the Philippine Islands and assist in collecting parasites 

 for introduction to Hawaii. 



Mr. D. G. Tower, Bureau of Entomology, who was detailed for seven weeks to as- 

 sist in the fumigation of cotton in Boston, retiu-ned to Washington, and is now tem- 

 porarily located in Newark, N. J., supervising the fumigation of cotton at the plant 

 recently erected by the Clark Thread Company. 



Dr. A. L. Quaintance, Bureau of Entomology, recently visited Sandusky, Ohio, 

 where a conference was held with Prof. H. A. Gossard and W. H. Goodwin, of the 

 Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, and Messrs. Dwight Isely and H. G. Ingerson, 

 of this Bureau, in connection with inauguration of grape-berry moth investigations 

 in Northern Ohio. 



Plans are under way by the Bureau of Entomology for beginning demonstration 

 work in beekeeping during the next fiscal year. The work will be inaugurated in 

 certain Southern States, including North Carolina, where E. G. Carr made a pre- 

 liminary survey last autumn. The work will be conducted in cooperation with the 

 States Relations Service. 



Dr. R. R. Parker, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, was recently ap- 

 pointed a scientific assistant in the Bureau of Entomology but was forced to decline 

 on account of reasons connected with his family. Dr. Parker has specialized in the 

 Sarcophagidoe and during the summer of 1914 and 1915 was in the employ of the 



