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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
Current Notes 
[Vol. 16 
Dr. T. L. Guyton of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant Industry received the 
Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University at its recent Commencement. 
Mr. Loren B. Smith has been placed in charge of the Japanese beetle project of 
the Bureau of Entomology at Riverton, N. J. 
Mr. Don B. Whelan has been appointed instructor in entomology at the University 
of Nebraska and assistant in entomology in the Station. 
According to the Experiment Station Record , Mr. E. L. Ayers, entomologist and 
pathologist of the Extension Service of Florida University has been transferred to 
the Florida Station as agriculturist. 
Mr. R. W. Dawson, assistant professor of entomology at the University of Nebras¬ 
ka, and assistant in entomology in the Station, resigned July 1, to pursue graduate 
studies at the University of Minnesota. 
According to Science, the Plant Quarantine Station at Yokohama, Japan, was 
destroyed by the earthquake, but Dr. S. I. Kuwana was absent in Korea. 
Dr. L. I. Huber and Mr. C. R. Neiswander have recently been appointed assistants 
in entomology at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio. 
Prof. H. A. Gossard, during October, spent a few days at the Summit Nurseries, 
Monticello, Fla., where he is interested in a large pecan plantation. 
Mr. Herbert J. Pack of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan, Utah, is now 
connected with the department of entomology of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Mr. F. C. Craighead who has recently been appointed forest entomologist in 
charge of Forest Insect Investigations for the Bureau of Entomology, reported for 
duty September 14. 
Dr. Wm. P. Hayes resumed his work at the Kansas State Agricultural College 
September 1st, after a year’s leave of absence spent in study at Cornell University. 
Mr. W. J. Gerhardt of the Field Museum, Chicago, spent two days in Washington 
studying museum equipment, and visited the Division of Insects to consult with 
various entomologists. 
Mr. D. C. Mote, formerly a member of the staff of the Ohio Station, and more 
recently State Entomologist of Arizona, is now associate entomologist of the Oregon 
Station. 
Dr. W. D. Hunter and Messrs. B. A. Coad and G. A. Maloney of the Bureau of 
Entomology attended the national boll weevil menace convention at New Orleans, 
October 25 and 26. 
Dr. W. M. Mann of the U. S. National Museum left September 17 for Mexico, 
to continue his investigations of fruit flies in connection with work for the Federal 
Horticultural Board. 
At Cornell University a new insectary has been completed. It will be used chiefly 
for research, but will provide facilities for a course on photography and methods of 
rearing insects. 
Prof. B. B. Fulton of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station who was re¬ 
cently married, toured the eastern United States and visited the Entomological 
Department, Ohio State University, his Alma Mater, in August. 
