December, 'IG] CURRENT NOTES 575 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, went to Chicago on October 23 to ar- 

 range for extension work, later going to Amherst, Mass., October 30, to consult the 

 associate professor of beekeeping at the Massachusetts Agricultural College con- 

 cerning future work on bee diseases. 



Dr. G. F. White, Bureau of Entomology, has concluded his investigations of bee 

 diseases and will be on furlough until April 1, 1917, at which time he will resume 

 insect disease investigations and will be connected with the office qf Cereal and For- 

 age Insect Investigations. 



Arrangements have been completed by the Bureau of Entomology for extension 

 work in beekeeping in Tennessee in cooperation with the State College of Agriculture 

 and Cyrus E. Bartholomew, formerly of the Iowa State Agricultural College, has 

 been appointed to conduct this work, beginning November 1. 



In the Bureau of Entomology Mr. E. L. Skelh-egg, Sandusky, Ohio, has returned 

 to Amherst, Mass., and Mr. A. J. King, Vashon, Wash., to the University of* Wash- 

 ington, for further study. Mr. Irving R. Crawford, temporarily attached to the 

 Wellington, Kans., field station, has also returned to his studies. 



Professor H. E. Summers, of the Iowa State College, has improved much in health 

 and is working over some of his extensive collections in the Rhynchota. He expects 

 to spend the winter months in the south, as he did last year, making collections and 

 recuperating in health. 



Mr. C. H. Richardson has resigned his position as assistant entomologist of the 

 New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station and instructor in entomology 

 in Rutgers College, to take up graduate study in the biochemistry of insects at Colum- 

 bia University. His address is 1400 University Ave., New York City. 



Dr. E. D. Ball, formerly director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 has been appointed State Entomologist of Wisconsin, with headquarters at Madison, 

 and has entered upon his duties. Dr. Ball takes the place of Mr. J. G. Sanders who 

 recently accepted the position of Economic Zoologist of Pennsylvania. 



The following men have recently left the employ of the Bm-eau of Entomology: 

 J. K. Primm, North East, Pa., and George R. Bailey, Gainesville, Fla., terms of 

 appointment expired. J. G. Hester, Brownsville, Texas, H. L. Weatherby, Rocky 

 Ford, Colo., J. I. Hambleton, Madison, Wis., Wm. N. Ankeny, Big Rapids, Mich., 

 A. H. Robinson, Plymouth, Ind., resigned. 



Dr. A. J. Cook, State Commissioner of Horticulture in California, died September 

 29 at 74 years of age. Dr. Cook was formerly professor of entomology in the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College, and for eighteen yea,rs was professor of biology in Pomona 

 CoUege at Claremont, Cal. For the past five years he has held the office of Com- 

 inissioner. 



Mr. Nathan Banks, for more than twenty years assistant entomologist in the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, has accepted the position of custodian of insects in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., the position formerly held by Dr. 

 Hagen. Mr. Banks took his own Ubrary and collection to the museum where he 

 entered upon his duties November 1. 



Mr. F. C. Craighead of the Bureau of Entomology is making a prehminary study 

 of a trouble affecting the oaks in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. The exact 



