June, ’23 
CURRENT NOTES 
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Current Notes 
The nursery inspection work in North Dakota is now in charge of Professor R. L. 
Webster. 
The office of the State Entomologist of Illinois has been merged into the Illinois 
State Natural History Survey. 
The North Dakota legislature recently passed a foulbrood law and Professor R. 
L. Webster has been appointed state inspector for apiaries. 
Mr. George Knowlton, a graduate student, is acting field man in Entomology at 
the Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan, Utah. 
Professor George A. Dean, of the Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan, visited 
Washington April 24 to attend the meeting of the National Research Council. 
Dr. W. D. Hunter of the Bureau of Entomology addressed the annual meeting 
of the Texas Cotton Association at Dallas, Tex., on March 24. 
The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been announced: 
Dr. H. L. Dozier, Dr. William Moore, H. L. McIntyre, J. C. Bridwell, and H. P. 
Wood. 
At the North Dakota Agricultural College the department of entomology is 
being provided with increased quarters in the new agricultural building recently 
completed. 
Professor J. S. Houser of the Ohio Station attended a grape growers’ conference 
at North East, Pa., on March 6, and conferred with entomologists concerning spray¬ 
ing programs. 
According to Science, Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, Director of the Imperial Bureau of 
Entomology, London, England, has been recommended for election to membership 
in the Royal Society. 
Professor S. B. Freeborn, Assistant Professor of Entomology in the College of Agri¬ 
culture, University of California, has been granted a sabbatical leave of absence for 
study and travel. 
Dr. I. M. Hawley, head of the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the 
Utah Agricultural College, has been made Acting Dean of the College of Arts and 
Sciences, for the coming year. Dean Saxer will be away because of poor health. 
H. J. Pack, Assistant Professor of Zoology and Entomology of the Utah Agri¬ 
cultural College, will be away on leave to do graduate work at Cornell University. 
His substitute has not been definitely appointed at this time. 
Mr. Don Gill is instructor in apiculture at the Utah Agricultural College. The 
college has an apiary of thirty-two colonies. The courses given are primarily for dis¬ 
abled soldiers, and at times forty men have been registered in this work. 
Dr. William Moore of the Japanese beetle laboratory, Riverton, N. J., resigned 
in February to accept a research position with the American Cyanamid Company 
in New York, N. Y. 
Professor H. B. Hungerford of the University of Kansas, will be one of the 
teachers at the University of Michigan Biological Station, Douglas Lake, Mich., 
July 2 to August 24. 
