October, ’24] 
CURRENT NOTES 
615 
Mr. J. U. Gilmore, of the Tobacco Insect Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology 
at Clarksville, Tenn., visited Dillwyn, Va., recently for the purpose of investigating 
damage to young tobacco plants by an undetermined species of insect. 
Mr. J. R. Horton, in charge of the Wichita, Kans., field station of the Bureau of 
Entomology, was called into consultation on account of the grasshopper outbreak in 
Oklahoma during early July. At the present writing the situation seems to be under 
control. 
According to Science, at the University of Minnesota there has been organized an 
expedition to the Hawaiian Islands to study the marine fauna and flora. Doctors 
W. A. Riley, Royal N. Chapman and W. E. Hoffman will represent the departments 
of Entomology and Zoology. 
Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, spent several days in 
southern California, prior to his departure for Honolulu, visiting the Bureau stations 
at Alhambra and Riverside, and consulting with the various entomologists, both 
Federal and State, located in that vicinity. 
Mr. W. J. Phillips of the Bureau of Entomology visited Greensboro, N. C., July 4, 
to investigate an infestation of the wheat jointworm, and found a very abundant 
occurrence of this insect in that vicinity. An infestation of 100 per cent, was found 
in one field. 
According to Experiment Station Record, Mr. A. L. Strand who recently resigned 
as assistant extension entomologist at Pennsylvania State College, has been appointed 
assistant entomologist at the Minnesota University and Station vice Dr. J. R. Parker 
who has returned to the Montana Station as associate entomologist. 
Visitors to the Bureau of Entomology laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., during the 
last month, to observe the work under way, included a group of Tennessee peach 
growers headed by the horticulturist of the University of Tennessee and several from 
South Carolina, Alabama, and Virginia. 
Mr. J. E. Graf, for many years in charge of field operations in connection with 
Truck Crop Insect Investigations in the Bureau of Entomology, and for some months 
Entomologist Acting in Charge of these investigations, has been selected as head of 
the division, effective June 1, 1924. 
Injury to elm foliage in southern Quebec proves to be the work of Kaliofenusa 
ulmi Sundewal, the Imported Elm Leaf Miner. The distribution of the injury has 
not yet been determined but is reported to cover a very large area in the southern 
part of Quebec province. 
Mr. L. H. Worthley, in charge of corn borer control, left Arlington, Mass., during 
the week of July 25, going to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was located for several weeks 
to supervise the initiation of the scouting and quarantine work in the Lake regions. 
He visited New Haven, Conn., on September 3. 
Mr. M. R. Smith, assistant entomologist and ant specialist of the Mississippi State 
Plant Board has obtained a leave of absence effective September 1st in order to pur¬ 
sue post graduate work at the University of Illinois, leading to the degree of Doctor 
of Philosophy. 
A co-operative project between the Bureau of Entomology and the Bureau of 
Standards has been inaugurated, having for its object a thorough study of the elec- 
