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Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



A new building, being erected at the citrus substation, Riverside, Cal., will contain 

 a lectiu'e room and laboratories for entomology. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell visited the National Museum for a few days during August 

 to examine the bees of the Pergande collection. 



Dr. L. O. Howard has been made chairman, and Dr. VV. D. Hunter a member of 

 the subcommittee of entomology of the National Committee for the study of malaria. 



Mr. A. H. Ritchie, until recently entomologist in the Department of Agriculture in 

 Jamaica, is now engaged in entomological work for the sugar planters' association of 

 Jamaica. 



Mr. C. H. Hadley, Jr., investigator in entomology in Cornell University, has 

 recently been appointed extension entomologist at Pennsylvania State College, State 

 College, Pa. 



According to the Review of Applied Entomology, Professor H. Maxwell Lefroy was 

 on special duty in Mesopotamia during July and August, in connection with fly 

 investigations. 



Messrs. A. J. Grove and L. Harrison have been appointed by the British War 

 Office to advise on entomological problems in connection with the military operations 

 in Mesopotamia. 



At a conference regarding the white pine-currant blister rust at Crawford Notch* 

 New Hampshire, September 7, Dr. L. O. Howard, Mr. A. F. Burgess and Prof. W. C. 



O'Kane were present. 



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Prof. J. G. Sanders has recently resigned as state entomologist of Wisconsin to 

 accept the appointment as economic zoologist of Pennsylvania. His work at Harris- 

 burg began September 16. 



Dr. James W. Chapman, formerly of the Bussey Institution of Harvard University, 

 is now at Siliman Institute, Dumaguete, PhiUppine Islands, where he will be engaged 

 in teaching and other entomological work. 



Mr. Patricio Cardin, entomologist of the Estacion Experimental Agronomica, has 

 recently been appointed by the president one of the three members of the Commision 

 ■de Sanidad Vegetal recently established in Cuba. 



Prof. H. A. Ballou, entomologist on the staff of the West India Department of 

 Agriculture, visited Washington on July 21, en route to Egypt where he will be en- 

 gaged for a year in the study of Gelechia gossypiella. 



Dr. William Morton Wheeler of the Bussey Institution spent some time in Wash- 

 ington during August looking over the ants of the Pergande collection which has been 

 donated to the National Museum by Miss Pergande. 



According to the Review of Applied Entomology, the services of Dr. W. A. Lamborn 

 liave been lent by the British Imperial Bureau of Entomology to the War Office and 

 he is now attached to the Expeditionary Force in East Africa. 



