August, ’23] 
CURRENT NOTES 
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Dr. Cook entered the Bureau of Chemistry in 1904. He was a native 
of Connecticut and educated in Yale where he received the B. A. degree 
in 1900, M. A. in 1902 and M. S. 1904. In 1908 the Ph.D. degree was 
conferred upon him by the George Washington University. He was a 
delegate to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, Rome, 
1906 and London, 1909, and was a member of numerous chemical and 
other scientific societies. 
He published numerous papers, some in collaboration with Drs. 
Wiley and Bigelow on the chemistry of food products, cold storage 
experiments with eggs, fowls, etc., enzymes, food metabolism, and the 
use of copper sprays and their effects on the growth and composition 
of potatoes. 
In the untimely death of Dr. Cook the sciences of Chemistry and 
Entomology have sustained a most serious loss. His many associates 
in the Department, all of whom were his devoted friends, feel most 
keenly the loss of contact with this enthusiastic and energetic worker, 
his genial, buoyant personality' and clean Christian life. 
F. C. B. 
Current Notes 
Dr. W. D. Hunter of the Bureau of Entomology, addressed the annual meeting of 
the Western States Plant Quarantine Board at Phoenix, Ariz., May 22. 
Mr. A. E. Miller has started a series of experimental plantings of corn at Chillicothe, 
Ohio, to determine the comparative immunity from the attacks of corn ear-worm. 
C. H. Hadley has been appointed Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry of 
the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. 
Professor S. A. Forbes is spending the month of August in scientific work at 
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. 
Mr. J. S. Houser, Associate Entomologist of the Ohio Experiment Station, visited 
the Kansas State Agricultural College during Commencement Week, May 26 to 
June 1. Mr. Houser graduated with the 1904 class. 
The alfalfa weevil scouting work in Southern Alberta started under the immediate 
direction of Mr. H. L. Seamans on June 5th. Messrs. J. E. Featherstonnaugh and 
R. D. Murdock are doing the actual field work. 
Prof. Z. P. Metcalf of North Carolina State College and Experiment Station has 
been granted a leave of absence and will spend the summer in study at the Bussey 
Institution, Forest Hills, Boston. 
Dr. J. W. Bailey of Bussey Institute, Harvard University, is assisting Dr. F. C. 
Craighead for a few weeks in the study of the physiological conditions accompanying 
the death of budworm-injured balsam and spruce in Canada. 
