December, ’24] 
CURRENT NOTES 
679 
Insects, located in the Northwestern, Central, and Southern States. While, in the 
Northwest he attended the conference of the Northwest International Committee on 
Farm Pests, held at Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, August 27 and 28. 
Prof. Dean reports a decided improvement in the grasshopper situation in the 
Northwestern States. The loss by grasshoppers during the past season has been very 
much less than that of the years 1922 and 1923. He also reports splendid results by 
the entomologists of the Billings, Mont., laboratory in the control of the Mormon 
cricket with the poisoned bran mash and by the entomologists of the Salt Lake City 
laboratory in the control of the alfalfa weevil with arsenical dust. 
The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been announced: 
L. B. Sanderson, field assistant in insect control, cereal and forage crop investigations; 
Bruce Lineburg, bee culture investigations to accept a position as instructor in Lake 
Forest University; E. W. Tschudi, bee culture laboratory, to resume his work at 
Johns Llopkins University; W. B. Wheelis, bean beetle work, Birmingham, Ala.; 
S. T. Howard, mechanical engineer, boll weevil laboratory, Tallulah, La.; C. P. 
Barber, R. M. Foster, H. S. Hollingsworth, J. M. Hyman, LeRoy Johnson, J. G. 
Lewis, E. E. Lumpkin, L. G. McGraw, D. A. McIntosh, A. H. McMullen, B. J. 
Nuckols, P. J. Pace, R. A. Robinson, J. G. Sevier, F. A. Smith, P. E. Stephens, J. C. 
Wilkerson and R. D. Williams of the Southern Field Crop investigations; B. E. 
Montgomery, field assistant, Vincennes, Ind., for graduate study at Purdue Univer¬ 
sity; H. L. Weatherby, Ala.; L. M. Bertholf, bee culture investigations, to accept 
an instructorship in biology at Western Maryland University; Carlton Burnside, 
bee culture investigations, to resume graduate study, University of Michigan: 
Samuel Blum, Junior Entomologist, Columbia, S. C. 
Since the latter part of July a staff of thirty-five men has been engaged on Canadian 
gipsy moth work and all territory along the border is being examined. The first 
record of the gipsy moth in Canada was taken by Air. A. K. Gibson, Crew Foreman, 
on July 29 near the town of Stanstead in Stanstead County. A very serious infesta¬ 
tion was also found by Mr. A. Magnan, Crew Foreman, on September 3 about four 
miles southwest of Lacolle Village in St. John’s County, and investigations have 
shown that this outbreak is at least three years old. Scouting carried on to date 
shows that the infestation extends over an area of at least six hundred yards square. 
Although a comparatively small number of trees are included in the infestation, 
clean-up work will be greatly handicapped on account of the presence of many stone 
walls situated on the infested properties, and the large number of egg-masses within 
these walls. Egg-masses were also discovered on and within the various farming 
buildings. 
At the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, the new chemical and 
biological building, known as Thorne Hall, will be ready for occupancy about the 
first of January. The entomological department will occupy the second floor of the 
east wing of the building, and the quarters include a library and collection room in 
the northeast corner of the building, fronting the north. This room is 36' x 14', has 
5 windows to the north and two to the east. A hallway five feet wide runs the length 
of the east wing and through the center of the wing. East of the hallway is an outfit 
of five offices, the office of the Chief, next to the library, being 20' x 12', with three 
windows to the east. Then comes a series of four offices, each 11' x 12', and each 
having two windows to the east. Then comes a small office or storeroom, 8' x 12', 
with one window to the east. At present it is planned to use this as a storeroom for 
