August, '15] 



CURRENT NOTES 



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^Iv. T. J. Talbert, extension entomologist at the Kansas Agricultui'al College, has 

 been appointed extension assistant professor of entomologj^ at the Missoui'i Univer- 

 sity and Station. 



According to Science, Dr. Cornehus Betten has resigned the professorship of biology 

 in Lake Forest College to become secretary of the College of Agi'iculture in Cornell 

 University. 



The investigation of insects affecting shade trees and hardy ornamental shrubs 

 has been assigned by the chief of the Bureau of Entomology to the Forest Insect 

 Investigations branch. 



^Messrs. S. A. Rohwer and A. B. Gahan of the Bureau of Entomology visited 

 Quebec, Can., Amherst, IMass., and New Haven, Conn., in June to examme speci- 

 mens in the insect collections there. 



Mr. George S. Demuth, Bm-eau of Entomologj^, visited Winchester, Va., recently 

 to assist the county agent there in establishing apiaries in two county schools. Inter- 

 est in beekeeping among farm demonstrators is increasing. 



An experimental apiarj^ was started this spring at the Iowa Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Ames. The work in apicultm-e at this station is under the imme- 

 diate charge of Professor C. E. Bartholomew. 



According to Science, ]Mr. H. J. Quayle has been promoted to a fuU professorship 

 of entomology' in the citrus experiment station and graduate school of tropical agi'i- 

 culture of the Univei-sity of Cahfomia. 



Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, formerly professor of zoolog}' in Brown University, and 

 afterwards director of the American Museum of Natm-al History, was formally in- 

 stalled as president of Tufts College, .June 12. 



Science, under date of June 4, stated that Professor R. Xewstead of the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine, is in France, prosecuting entomological investigations 

 from the point of view of mihtary sanitation. 



]Mr. Joseph J. De Gryse was appomted field assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, 

 March 1, and assigned to work at the Falls Church, Va., station. He is assisting 

 Mr, Heimich in forest Lepidoptera. 



Mr. E. W. Rust, Bureau of Entomology, recently returned from a visit to Cali- 

 fornia. In addition to assisting in inspection work for the Federal Horticultural 

 Board, Mr. Rust is devoting considerable time to the unarmored scales. 



The following temporary field assistants have been appointed in the Bureau of 

 Entomolog^' and detailed for investigations of tobacco insects: Messrs. J. U. Gil- 

 more, K. B. ]McKinney, A. D. Bosley, J. E. McMurtrey, and J. D. Smith. 



Professor Vemon L. Kellogg, of Stanford University, sailed for Liverpool on May 

 29 to join the commission for rehef in Belgium, and intends to spend the summer 

 there in volunteer work for the commission. 



Mr. ^Y. O. EUis spent the summer in the insectary at the Iowa Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station at Ames. After September 15th he vvill be at the New York State 

 School of Forestry at Syracuse as instructor in Forest Entomology. 



Messrs. E. K. Bynum and W. B. WiUiams have been appointed temporary field 

 assistants in the Bureau of Entomology and detailed for the investigation of the 

 cotton boll weevil. 



