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JOURNAL OF ECOXO^IIC EXTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. E. A. Yaughan has succeeded G. W. Ells as field assistant in entomology' at 

 the Alabama Station. 



]Mr. T. H. Parks has resigned as field entomologist of the Idaho Station to engage 

 in private work. 



According to Science, ]Mr. H. Scott, of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been 

 appomted cm'ator of entomology in the University. 



]Mr. A. H. Hollihger, assistant in entomology, has been made deput}' inspector of 

 nm-series at the ^Missouri University and Station. 



Dr. Frank L. Thomas has been appomted assistant professor of entomology and 

 assistant entomologist at the Alabama College and Station. 



Mr. H. J. Reinhard, a recent graduate of the Ohio State University, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in the nm'sery inspection work in Iowa. 



Professor J. G. Xeedham has been elected president, and Professor O. A. Johann- 

 sen, treasurer, of the Alpha Chapter of Sigma Xi at Cornell University. 



Dr. L. 0. Howard, Chief of the Bui-eau of Entomology^, planned to visit certain 

 field stations of the bm-eau during July and August, especially in the far West. 



Dr. A. H. ]\IcCray, Bui-eau of Entomology-, planned to transfer his work on bee 

 diseases to the Drummond Laboratory about July 1. 



Mr. L. P. Rockwood, Bm-eau of Entomology, has returned to his field station 

 from an investigation of aKalfa insects in the Yakima YaUey, Wash. 



Mr. J. J. Davis, Bureau of Entomology, has returned from a trip of investigation 

 of Lachnostema through Wisconsin, northern and southern Michigan. 



Mr. W. R. Walton, of the Bureau of Entomology, has investigated an outbreak 

 of chinch bug in western Yirginia. 



JNIr. James A. Hyslop, of the Hagerstown laboratory. Bureau of Entomology, has 

 investigated wireworm outbreaks in Xew Jersey and Xew York. 



Mr. P. R. Myers, of the Hagerstown station. Bureau of Entomology, has investi- 

 gated the Hessian fly situation in Pennsylvania. 



]Mr. W. S. Fisher, Bureau of Entomology, has just returned from Harrisbm^g, Pa., 

 where he is carrying on investigations of the hickory bark beetle. 



Prof. G. W. Herrick, of Cornell University, visited Louisiana during June to hispect 

 the work on the boll weevil and on malaria mosquitoes. 



Mr. Max Kisliulv, Jr.. has been appomted a temporary field assistant. Bureau of 

 Entomology-, and detailed to investigate the house fly at Drummond, ]Md. 



According to Science, Joseph Farrigan, mining engineer and entomologist, and at 

 one time a co-worker with C. Y. Riley, died at his home in St. Louis, May 9, aged 

 58 years. 



Mr. Harrison E. Smith, of the Springfield, Alass., station of the Bm-eau of Ento- 

 mology^, has already begun grasshopper investigations in Yermont and New Hamp- 

 shire. 



