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It is, of course, desirable that the instrument be tried out on a very large scale, 
especially with different breeds of cattle, some of which are known to have characters 
of hide which make grub extraction very difficult. If the instrument works success¬ 
fully under all conditions it would commend itself on account of the greater cleanli¬ 
ness of the work, lessening the chances of bruising the tissue and possibly producing 
less pain to the animal, as well as its ability to remove the pus from the cysts. 
F. C. Bishopp, 
United States Bureau of Entomology 
Current Notes 
Dr. A. L. Quaintance of the Bureau of Entomology accompanied Secretary Wallace 
to the Cotton States Conference, held at Memphis, Tenn., December 5, 1922. 
Professor William M. Wheeler gave the annual public address of the Entomological 
Society of America, December 27, at Boston, on “The Physiognomy of Insects.’ 
Mr. C. A. Weigel of the Bureau of Entomology gave an address on greenhouse 
insects before the meeting of the Philadelphia Florists’ Club, on November 7. 
Professor H. A. Gossard read a paper before the National Nut Growers’ Association, 
Thomasville, Ga., October 4, 1922, on “The Pathway of Progress for the Pecan 
Grower.” 
Dr. Henry Skinner was elected vice president and Mr. James G. A. Rehn recording 
secretary of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences at the annual meeting, 
December 19, 1922. 
Mr. G. F. Moznette of the Bureau of Entomology was scheduled to give an address 
at the State Conference on mosquito eradication held at Daytona, Fla., December 6, 
1922. 
Mr. A. J. Ackerman of the Bureau of Entomology, with headquarters at Benton- 
ville, Ark., planned to attend the annual meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural 
Society at Joplin, December 13-15. 
Professor R. N. Lobdell, associate professor of zoology and entomology and assist¬ 
ant entomologist at the Mississippi College and Station, has been assigned to full¬ 
time work on the Station staff as zoologist. 
Mr. C. P. Lounsbury, Entomologist of the Union of South Africa, who has been in 
official entomological work at Cape Town for twenty-six years, has been visiting for 
several months in the United States. 
Dr. Seymour Had wen returned to Ottawa the latter part of November, after 
spending several months in Europe, where he studied particularly the Reindeer 
situation in Lapland, for the United States Department of Agriculture. 
Dr. L. 0. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, and Professor C. T. Brues, 
Assistant Professor of Economic Entomology at Bussey Institution, gave 
addresses at the Symposium before Section N (Medical Sciences) at the Boston 
meeting. 
