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Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



W. F. Turner, formerly assistant entomologist at the Alabama Station, is now at 

 Vienna, Va. 



The degree of doctor of philosophy was conferred on C. H. T. Townsend, October 

 29, 1914, by George Washington University. 



An index to Circulars 101 to 173 of the Bureau of Entomology will soon be issued 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture. 



A. W. Jobbins-Pomeroy left for England on October 28. From London he will 

 proceed to his post in Southern Nigeria ia a short time. 



Mr. W. W. Yothers, Bureau of Entomology, reports some very satisfactory demon- 

 stration orchard results in the control by sprays of the white fly and rust mite. 



T. C. Barber, of the Experiment Station at Tucuman, Argentina, who has been in 

 New Orleans for some weeks, is about to return to his post. 



The work of Mr. J. R. Horton, Bureau of Entomology, in the New Orleans citrus 

 district, principally with the Argentine ant, is developing control results of much 

 promise. 



Dr. Burton N. Gates, assistant professor of beekeeping at Amherst, Mass., is 

 president of the National Beekeepers' Association, which meets February 16-18 at 

 Denver, Colo. 



Mr. C. H. Hadley, Jr., assistant entomologist at the New Hampshire College and 

 Station, has resigned to accept a research position at Cornell University beginning 

 January 1, 1915. 



F. C. Bishopp, Bureau of Entomology, made an extended trip to the Dakotas and 

 other states in connection with reports of heavy loss arising from insects which at- 

 tack horses and cattle. 



According to Science the following entomologists connected with the British Mu- 

 seum are serving at the front in the European war: Captain E. E. Austen (Diptera); 

 Lieutenant N. D. Riley (Lepidoptera), and private K. G. Blair (Coleoptera). 



R, W. Moreland and G. A. Runner, Bureau of Entomology, have been detailed 

 to examine cotton fields in the vicinity of miUs which have recently received foreign 

 cottons, to determine whether the pink boll worm has become established. 



C. L. Metcalf, for the past two years assistant entomologist in the State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Raleigh, North CaroUna, resigned October first to accept the 

 position of assistant professor of zoology and entomology at Ohio State University. 



Mr. A. B. Duckett, scientific assistant, Bureau of Entomology, is engaged in a 

 preliminary investigation of the so-called "Argentine corn weevil" in New York 

 City and vicinity. 



