December, ’23] 
CURRENT NOTES 
557 
Prof. S. W. Bilsing of the Texas A. & M. College has been granted a year’s leave 
of absence and will spend it in graduate study in entomology at Ohio State University. 
Mr. J. C. Bridwell, formerly of the Pacific Coast and Hawaii, is now in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and visited the Entomological Department -of the Agricultural Experiment 
Station, New Haven, Conn., on October 29. 
Dr. M. W. Blackman, teacher of forest entomology in Syracuse, N. Y., spent two 
days in the Section of Insects, U. S. National Museum, conferring with various 
workers and studying types of certain scolytid beetles. 
Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, has been appointed presi¬ 
dent of the International Conservation Conference to be held at Honolulu in 1924 
under the auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union. 
Prof. R. C. Osburn, head of Department of Zoology and Entomology, Ohio State 
University, spent several weeks during the summer at the Lake Laboratory at 
Put-in-Bay engaged in research work on the Lake fauna. 
Appointments in the Bureau of Entomology have been announced as follows:— 
H. S. Adair, Mississippi Agricultural College, junior entomologist, pecan insect 
investigations, Thomasville, Ga.; Luther Brown, Mississippi Agricultural College, 
plant quarantine inspector, Riverton, N. J. 
Mr. D. C. Parman of the Uvalde, Tex., laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology 
recently made a trip through the Gulf States, investigating various species of insects 
injurious to domestic animals in that region. 
Dr. F. H. Lathrop who received the Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University in 
June has been placed in charge of a substation of the New York Experiment Station 
at Highland, N. Y., under the direction of Prof. Parrott. 
Accurdine to Science , Prof. J. W. McColloch of the Kansas State College has 
been named acting head of the department of entomology, during the absence of 
Prof. G. A. Dean, who has a year’s leave of absence. 
Dr. T. J. Potgieter of South Africa took his Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University 
in June and has started on his return trip by way of England to South Africa where 
he will engage in entomological work. 
Prof. George M. List, chief deputy entomologist, Colorado Agricultural College, 
spent most of the afternoon of October 4 in the Section of Insects, U. S. National 
Museum, studying the methods of filing cards and the arrangement of the collections. 
Mr. Josef N. Knull for several years connected with the Pennsylvania Bureau of 
Plant Industry, has been appointed as research assistant to Prof. Herbert Osborn 
and will combine work in this connection with graduate studies at Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity. 
Mr. F. E. Todd of the entomological staff of Arizona Board of Agriculture with 
his wife visited the Entomological Department, Ohio State University in August. 
He is inspecting the entomological work at the various state stations and expects 
to return to Arizona in a few weeks. 
The temporary appointment of Mr. Henry L. Viereck has been extended six months 
from October 1 by the Division of Systematic Entomology, Entomological Branch, 
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada. Mr. Viereck will devote his time to 
the arrangement of the Hymenoptera in the National collection. 
