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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



Mr. C. A. Good has been appointed assistant entomologist at the Nova Scotia 

 Agricultural College. 



J. H. Fabre, the French entomologist, and the author of a number of popular books 

 about insects, died October 11. 



Messrs. Leroy Childs and G. F. Moznette have severed their connection with the 

 Oregon Station, where they held positions as research assistants in entomology. 



Mr. C. L. Scott, Bureau of Entomology, has been transferred from the Brownsville 

 (Tex.) station to Welhngton, Kan, 



Mr. F. L. McDonough, Bureau of Entomology, was occupied during October in 

 determining the limits of the dispersion of the boll weevil. 



Dr. E. A. Back, Bureau of Entomology, in field charge of the Mediterranean 

 fruit-fly investigations in Hawaii, has returned to Honolulu. 



Mr. W. H. Larrimer, Bureau of Entomology, formerly located at the WeUington 

 (Kan.) field station, has been detached and stationed temporarily at Missoula, Mont. 



Mr, E. R. Barber, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to New Orleans after an 

 extensive trip to determine the extent of the territory infested by the Argentine ant. 



Mr. Harold Lyon, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, class of 

 1913, is now studying at the Bussey Institution, Harvard University, Forest Hills, 

 Mass. 



Dr. E. A. Back, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of Mediterranean fruit-fly inves- 

 tigations in Hawaii, visited Washington on August 19 for consultation with reference 

 to future work. 



Professor H. F. Wilson of Oregon State College, has gone to the University of Wis- 

 consin as professor of economic entomology to take the place of Professor J. G. 

 Sanders. 



Mr. R, J. Fiske, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, class of 

 1910, is now engaged in codHng moth investigations for the Bureau of Entomology 

 at Roswell, N. M. 



Mr. W. T. M. Forbes, a specialist in Lepidoptera, has been appointed to a position 

 on the staff of the entomological department of the College of Agriculture of Cornell 

 University. 



Professor E. D. Sanderson is now a graduate student at the University of Chicago, 

 where he expects to remain for two years or perhaps longer. His present address is 

 1109 East 54th Place. 



Mr. J. R. Christie, formerly a student at the New Hampshire Agricultural College, 

 is now instructor in zoology and entomology at the Maryland Agricultural CoUege 

 and assistant entomologist in the Station. 



Mr, F, C, Bishopp, Bureau of Entomology, during the month of August investi- 

 gated a serious outbreak of horse flies in Nevada and CaHfornia upon which assist- 

 ance had been asked by the Nevada Experiment Station, 



Mr. Wallace L. Chandler, formerly of the University of California, has recently 

 been caUed to Cornell University, where he will give instruction and conduct investi- 

 gations in parasitology as a member of the entomological department. 



