April, ’24] 
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should be stated in such terms as to be comparable for different sections 
of the country and over a series of years. It would seem that as a general 
rule, the proportion of plants, fruits, etc., and the proportionate in¬ 
jury to such would the most reliable standard, supplemented in some, 
possibly many, cases by statements of the estimated financial losses. 
The latter are valuable even though they are materially affected by 
market conditions. There is little need of the economic entomologist 
magnifying insect losses. One of his chief problems is to present a clear 
picture of what insect depredations actually mean and through this 
presentation convince the public of the economic justification of such 
control measures as may be advocated. 
Current Notes 
Mr, C. H. Popenoe of the Silver Spring laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, is 
taking special work at the University of Maryland. 
Mr. W. V. Tower, Entomologist of the Federal Experiment Station in Porto Rico, 
has resigned to accept a position with a Porto Rican tobacco company. 
According to Entomological News , Mr. Edwin A. Bischoff, a coleopterist of New¬ 
ark, N. J., died December 23, 1923, in the 58th year of his age. 
Professor W. C. O’Kane of the University of New Hampshire spent a couple of 
days at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, during the fore part of January. 
Dr. Herbert Osborn lectured before the classes in Entomology at the University 
of Tennessee during the first week in January. Dr. Osborn was tendered a 
banquet by students and faculty members during his stay in Knoxville. 
Doctor Alexander D. MacGillivray, Professor of Entomology at the University 
of Illinois, died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Urbana early on the 
morning of March 24. He leaves a widow and two sons. 
Col. Clarence Ousely, formerly Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, has been en¬ 
gaged by the New Orleans Boll Weevil Control Association as Secretary and Man¬ 
ager of Activities. 
Mr. K. C. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Entomology, University of Missouri, 
will pursue graduate work in the Entomology Department, Cornell University, dur¬ 
ing the summer term. 
Mr. Stefan Keler is now Forest Entomologist of Poland, and his address has 
recently been changed from 22 Nabielaka, Lwow, to: Bydgoszcz, Panstwowy 
Instytut Naukowo-Rolniczy, Wydziat Chorob Roslin, Poland. 
Mr. Barton C. Ressler, a graduate assistant in Zoology and Entomology at Iowa 
State College, Ames, Iowa, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Zoology 
at the University of Tennessee. 
Mr. T. H. Jones, for many years a collaborator of the Bureau of Entomology, 
truck crop insect investigations, has been appointed to a position in the gipsy moth 
investigations of the Bureau. 
