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JOURNAL OF ECONOillC ENTOMOLOGY 



Fol. 8 



Current Notes 



Conducted By The Associate Editor 



W. V. Kiiig, Bui-eau of Entomology, received the degree of doctor of philosophy 

 from Tulane University, in January. 



Mr. Frank R. Cole has been appointed! scientific assistant. Bureau of Entomology', 

 to work temporarih" at Pasadena, Cal., and viculit3^ 



Mr. Thomas H. Jones of the Bureau of Entomology is stationed at Baton Rouge, 

 La., and is investigating truck crop insects. 



Mr. R. J. Fiske, Bureau of Entomology, is now stationed at Roswell, N. H., where 

 he is engaged on codling moth investigations. 



Mr, H. P. Wood, Bm-eau of Entomology, now located at Dallas, Texas, was married 

 to Miss Ester Danielson of Hopedale, Mass., April 3. 



The Department of Entomolog}' of the Texas Agricultural College, has just com- 

 pleted a greenhouse, for use as an insectary, at a cost of $1,200. 



Mr. C. E. Smith has been engaged by the Bureau of Entomology to assist Mr. 

 Thomas H. Jones in work on truck crop insects at Baton Rouge, La., and vichiity. 



Mr. E. R. Speyer has taken up a temporary^ appointment under the Ceylon govern- 

 ment for the purpose of investigating the shothole borer of tea (Xyleborus fornicatus) . 



Mr. Richard Lydekker, F. R. S., the well-known English zoologist, died April 16, 

 aged 65 years. 



J. L. Webb, Bm-eau of Entomology, left Washington on April 25th for Tallulah, 

 La., where he will be attached to the boll-weevil laboratory-. 



Mr. F. W. Dry, a Carnegie scholar, is on a trip with Professor Webster, visiting 

 the eastern field stations of the section of Cereal and Forage Crop insects. 



According to Science, Professor M. A. Lameere, L^niversity of Brussells, has been 

 nominated as an honorary member of the Societe Entomologique de France, in place 

 of the late M. J. Perez. 



T. C. Barber, recently of the experiment station at Tucuman, Argentina, has been 

 engaged as an agent of the Bm'eau of Entomology, and is attached to the Tallulah 

 laboratory. 



Mr. R. S. Chfton, executive assistant of the Bureau of Entomology, is now stationed 

 at the headquarters of the gypsy and brown-tail moth investigations, 43 Tremont St., 

 Boston, Mass. 



Dr. Henry H. P. Severin has again accepted a temporary' position for the summer at 

 the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station to test the poisoned bait sprays to control 

 the currant or gooseberry fmit-fly and the apple maggot. 



Messrs. R. W. Wells, M. J. Stanley, and G. H. Cowan have been appointed to 

 service in the Bm-eau of Entomology, in connection with the spotted-fever tick work 

 in Montana. 



