574 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 9 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. Christopher H. Roberts, a coleop.terist and former president of tlie New York 

 Entomological Society, died September 29. 



Mr. G. H. Hecke has recently been appointed State Commissioner of Horticulture 

 of California vice Dr. A. J. Cook, deceased. 



Mr. E. L. Worsham, State Entomologist of Georgia, visited the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, Washington, D. C, on September 25. 



The members of the Federal Horticultural Board recently visited the fumigation 

 plants located in Boston, Brooklyn and Newark. 



Mr. Frank H. Smith, Ohio State University, 1916, has been appointed teaching 

 feUow in entomology at the Iowa State College. 



Mr. Kennith Hawkins has been appointed by the Bureau of Entomology to take 

 charge of extension work in beekeeping in the Southern States. 



Mr. Louis H. Joutel, the well-known entomological artist of New York City, and 

 former treasurer of the New York Entomological Society, died September 6. 



• Mr. George N. Wolcott has resigned as assistant entomologist of the Porto Rico 

 Insular Station to complete his studies for a doctorate at the University of Illinois. 



Mr. H. R. Hagan, instructor in entomology, Utah Agricultural College, has been 

 granted leave of absence for the coming year to pursue graduate study at Harvard 

 University. 



Mr. Alfred Free Swain, formerly of Montana State College and of Stamford Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant in entomology in the Graduate School of Tropi- 

 cal Agriculture of the University of California at Riverside, Calif. 



Prof. H. F. Wickham, who has been temporarily attached to the Wellington, Kans., 

 Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, has returned to his home at Iowa City to 

 take up his regular work at the University. 



Mr. G. C. Woodin, instructor in entomology, Michigan Agricultural College, and 

 assistant in the Station, resigned October 1 to pursue graduate study at the Ohio 

 State University. His address is 179 South Richardson Ave., Columbus, Ohio. 



Mr. E, S. Tucker, formerly of the Louisiana Experiment Station, has been 

 appointed a temporary field assistant of the Bureau of Entomology to determine 

 the spread of the boll weevil in western Texas, and in Oklahoma and Arkansas. 



Mr. H. C. YingUng, a graduate of the Ohio State University, has been appointed 

 to an instructorship in the Department of Entomology of the Texas Agricultural 

 and Mechanic College, College Station, Texas. Mr. Yingling entered upon his duties 

 the first of October. 



At the Maryland Agricultural College and Station, the following appointments 

 have been made: Mr. C. J. Pierson, assistant in entomology and zoology h\ the Col- 

 lege; Dr. Philip Garman, assistant entomologist in the Station; Mr. O. I. Snapp, 

 fellow in insect investigations in College and Station. 



