June, '15] 



CURRENT NOTES 



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Goveinor Ferguson of Texas, on March 22, approved an emergency appropriation 

 of S3, 000 for eradication of foul brood in that state. The work will be in charge of 

 State Entomologist Wilmon Newell. 



Mr. Arthur J. Ackerman, Bureau of Entomology, spent the winter in Washington* 

 and in March started on a short trip through the southern states investigating 

 nursery insects. As last year, he is located at West Chester, Pa. 



A. H. Jennings, Bm-eau of Entomology, who has been engaged for some time in the 

 study of the possible transmission of pellagra by insects, will be detailed to the in- 

 vestigation of malarial mosquitoes. He is now located at Mound, La. 



■ B. R. Coad, Bureau of Entomology, has been placed in charge of the boll- weevil 

 laboratory at TaUulah, La. G. D. Smith, formerly of this station, has been located 

 at Thomasville, Ga., where he wiU conduct studies of a number of cotton pests. 



Mr. W. F. Fiske is now engaged in an investigation of the tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) 

 for the Tropical Disease Commission and is stationed in the vicinity of Lake Victoria 

 Nyanza, where he plans to remain for the next fourteen months. 



Second Lieutenant Duncan H. Gotch, Worcestershire Regiment, entomological 

 assistant in the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, was killed in action at Neuve 

 ChapeUe on March 1 1 . 



Professor C. L. ]\Ietcalf of Ohio State University will spend the summer months, 

 beginning June 15, at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine. He will 

 be engaged in a systematic and economic study of the Syrphidse. 



Mr. E. P. Taylor has resigned as field horticulturist. Extension Department of 

 the University of Idaho, Boise, Idaho, and accepted the position of horticulturist, 

 Utah Fruit Growers Association, Box 1878, Salt Lake City, L^tah. 



G. A. Runner, Bureau of Entomology, spent several days during April in the 

 laboratories of the General Electric Co., Schenectadj^, N. Y., conducting experiments 

 in the destruction of the cigarette beetle (Chalcodermus oeneus) . 



Mr. Carlton C. Gowdy, government entomologist in British East Africa, was given 

 a ten months' leave of absence and spent the winter months in advanced work in 

 entomology at the ^Massachusetts Agricultural College, of which he is a graduate in 

 the class oi 190S. 



Mr. Xeale F. Howard, a graduate of the Agricultural CoUege, University of Wis- 

 consin, will work viith. the Bm'eau of Entomology on the pea aphis, root maggots, and 

 other insects affecting truck crops, with headquarters at Green Bay, Wis., in co- 

 operation vdth the University of Wisconsin. 



U. C. Loftin, Bureau of Entomology, is now in Cuba where he will be engaged for 

 several months in the study and collection of parasites of sugar-cane insects and the 

 investigation of the relation between certain systems of culture and the sugar-cane 

 borer. 



Entomological News records the death of the following European entomologists : 

 Ferdinand Kowarz, the well-known dipterist at Franzensbad, Bohemia, September 

 14, 1914; Dr. F. Trybom, of Sweden, February 15, 1915; Doctors Walter Stendell, 

 Otto Kirchhoffer, W. Haas and F. Vogel who have been killed in the war. 



Mr. O. K. Courtney, a graduate of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, 

 has been appointed to the position of assistant entomologist in the Department of 



