October, '151 ' 



CURRENT NOTES 



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Mr. V. G. Stevens of Leland Stanford Junior University, Cal., has been appointed 

 as a field assistant in the Bureau of Entomology for the purpose of assisting Mr.W. 

 M. Davidson at Walnut Creek, Cal., in investigations of the grape Phylloxera. 



Mr. F. C. Craighead, Bureau of Entomology, recently spent about a week in 

 Tyrone, Pa., in the study of insects affecting a plantation of poplar trees and the 

 making of general observations on insects affecting forest and shade trees. 



It has been announced in Science that the medal and grant for 1915 of the South 

 African Association for the advancement of Science have been awarded to Mr. C. P. 

 Lounsbury, chief of the Division of Entomology, Union Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. W. D. Pierce, Bureau of Entomology, spent the latter half of July in deter- 

 mining the status of the boll weevil in the region first invaded during the fall of 1914, 

 and in visiting the laboratories at ClarksviUe, New Orleans, Thomasville, and Bates- 

 bm-g. 



Mr. G. N. Wolcott of the Porto Rico Board of Agriculture was in Washington on 

 July 27. He will attend the meetings at San Francisco and in the fall will spend 

 some little time as a collaborator at the laboratory investigating sugar-cane insects 

 at New Orleans. 



In the August issue of this Journal occurs a note copied from Science regarding 

 the death of Joseph Farrigan. The name is an error and the note refers to the death 

 of Joseph Tarrigan Monell. More information is given in the obituary notice on 

 another page of this issue. 



Mr. Dwight Isely, Bureau of Entomology, working on grape insects at North East, 

 Pa., is visiting the Benton Harbor (Mich.) laboratory for the purpose of making 

 observations on the grape-berry moth in that region. Upon completion of his in- 

 vestigation he will return to his headquarters at North East, Pa. 



The American Medicine Gold Medal has been awarded to Surgeon General Rupert 

 Blue of the Public Health Service, as the American physician who has done most for 

 humanity in the domain of medicine during 1914. Dr. Blue was placed in charge of 

 eradicating the bubonic plague from San Francisco in 1907. 



The squash lady bird (Epilachna horealis Fab.) was reported as being very injurious 

 during the last week of July to squashes in and near tidewater Virginia, where it has 

 also been rated a pest of great importance in certain years. It will be interesting to 

 know if this species causes such injury elsewhere. 



According to Science, Edgar M. Ledyard, formerly assistant professor of entomol- 

 ogy in the University of the Philippines, who has spent the last year in research work 

 in the laboratorj^ of parasitology of the University of California, has been appointed 

 director of the Agricultural Department of the United States Smelting Company, 

 Salt Lake City, Utah. 



A circuit of beekeepers' meetings is to be held in the Middle West in December, 

 ten associations meeting in succession. The object of this plan is to enable speakers 

 and exhibitors to attend with the minimum expense and time. Meetings will be 

 held in Ohio, Indiana, Ilhnois (2), Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 

 and Michigan. 



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