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JOURNAL OF EC0N0:MIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. H. O. ]\larsh, entomological assistant, Bureau of Entomology, is temporarily 

 stationed at Phoenix, Ariz. 



jMr. C. jMason has recently taken up the post of Entomologist to the Department 

 of Agriculture, Xyasaland. 



Mr. A. Rutherford, entomologist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, died February 

 3, from heart failure, following enteric fever. 



Prof. G. Bentley, state entomologist of Tennessee, has been elected secretary- 

 treasurer of the newly organized Tennessee State Florists' Society. 



j\Ir. R. Veitch, late entomological assistant to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 

 has taken up the post of entomologist to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd., 

 in Fiji. 



Mr. Roy E. Campbell, scientific assistant, Bureau of Entomology, formerly sta- 

 tioned at Sacramento, Cal., will remove his headquarters there and establish a new 

 station at Hayward, Alameda County, Cal. 



Dr. Frank L. Thomas, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has 

 taken up his new work as field assistant in entomologj^ at the Alabama Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Auburn, Ala. 



According to Science, Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend dehvered an address on "Ver- 

 ruga and Its Transmission," at the tenth annual banquet of the Tompkins County 

 Medical Society at Ithaca, N. Y., Februar}^ 16. 



Entomological Assistant W. D. Edmonston and Entomological Ranger George 

 Hofer have joined Entomological Ranger Morris Chrisman, Bm'eau of Entomology, 

 in the investigation of forest insect conditions in the mountains of southern Arizona. 



According to Science, two French entomologists, M. Reymond Morgon and M. 

 Andre Vuillet, have been kiUed in battle. The pubhcation of the Bulletin de Societe 

 Entomologique de France has been resumed. 



AU divisions of the Bm^eau of Entomology, which are located in Washington, are 

 now housed under one roof, as the Bureau of Biological Survey has moved out of the 

 building, which is now devoted entirely to entomology. 



Mr. C. F. Stahl, scientific assistant, Bm-eau of Entomolog}", has closed his station 

 at Jerome, Idaho, and is opening a new station at Spreckels, IMonterey County^ 

 Cal., for the study of the curly-top leaf hopper (Eutettix tenella Baker). 



i\Ir. W. W. Yothers, Bureau of Entomology, has been in Washington for consulta- 

 tion on citrus work in Florida. Mr. Sasscer visited Florida, inspecting Government 

 plant introduction stations and looked after details of the enforcement of plant quar- 

 antines. 



The work of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Ro3^al Society having now 

 terminated, Mr. W. F. Fiske and Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter are continuing their inves- 

 tigations into the bionomics of Glossina in Uganda under the dnection of the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



