JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 17 
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Current Notes 
Mr. W. B. Williams of the Tallulah, La., laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology 
has resigned to enter private business. 
Mr. Harold B. Cook, graduate assistant in Zoology and Entomology at Iowa State 
College, has accepted an instructorship in Physiology at Tulane University. 
Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Dean of the Bussey Institution, Harvard University, delivered 
an address, December 8, 1923, on “Social Insects,” at Toronto before the Royal 
Canadian Institute. 
Messrs. W. Carter and H. E. Gray, of the Lethbridge laboratory, Canadian Ento¬ 
mological Branch, are now engaged in post-graduate studies at the Universities of 
Minnesota and Montana, respectively. 
Mr. E. W. Dunman, a graduate student in Zoology and Entomology at Iowa State 
College, has accepted a position as assistant professor of Zoology and Entomology 
at Louisiana State University. 
The following were elected officers of the Ontario Entomological Society for the 
year 1924: President, J. M. Swaine; Vice-president, R. C. Treherne; Secretary- 
Treasurer, A. W. Baker; Editor, Canadian Entomologist, J. H. McDunnough. 
Mr. Philip Spong, graduate assistant in Zoology and Entomology at Iowa State 
College, has accepted the position as head of department of Biology of Nebraska 
State Teachers College, Wayne, Nebraska. 
According to Entomological News, Mr. Philip Nell, an associate of the Ento¬ 
mological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences since 1891, died at his home in 
Philadelphia, November 7, 1923. 
Mr. W. S. Hough, Assistant Entomologist to the Crop Pest Office and Experiment 
Station, Blacksburg, Virginia, has secured a leave of absence for this quarter and is 
taking graduate work in the Department of Entomology at Ohio State University. 
Mr. S. W. Frost of Arendtsville, Penn., is spending a few weeks in the entomological 
laboratories of Cornell, rounding out his investigations of the Dipterous and Cole¬ 
opterous leaf miners. 
Mr. H. L. Viereck of Washington is at Cornell for a few weeks working on the 
collection of saw flies, naming the undetermined species, rearranging and putting 
the material in order. 
Prof, and Mrs. J. H. Comstock have left Ithaca for an extended visit to the 
Southwest and to California. They will spend the major portion of their time in 
Palo Alto. 
Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, addressed the McGill Agricultural 
Graduate Club at Macdonald College, Que., on the evening of November 7, the 
subject being “Recent Developments in Entomology in Canada.” 
Prof. James G. Needham delivered the annual public address before the Ento¬ 
mological Society of America, Saturda}^ evening December 29, at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
on “The R61e of Insects in Food Production.” 
Mr. T. C. Barber of the Bureau of Entomology traveled in northeastern Mexico 
during November, investigating sugar-cane insects and making a general collection 
of the insects of economic importance in that region. 
