April, ’24] 
CURRENT NOTES 
349 
Realizing the economic importance of farm birds in the control of insect pests, the 
Department of Entomology in the University of Missouri is offering a regular de¬ 
partment course dealing with the study of birds and their value in the control of 
insect pests. 
Dr. Philip Luginbill of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology received the Ph.D. degree 
at the George Washington University at its winter convocation on February 22. 
Dr. Luginbill is in charge of the Cereal and Forage Insect Laboratory of the Federal 
Bureau at Columbia, S. C. 
Mr. E. Graywood Smyth, Special Field Agent, connected with truck crop insect 
investigations, Bureau of Entomology, for more than a year and a half, most of which 
time he spent in Mexico investigating parasites and natural enemies of the Mexican 
bean beetle, has returned to New York, having completed the temporary special 
work for which he was engaged. 
Mr. T. E. Holloway, Bureau of Entomology, attended the annual meeting of the 
inspectors of the Mississippi Plant Board at Starkville, Miss., during December, and 
at the request of Professor Harned, gave brief talks on the sugar-cane moth borer and 
its control in Mississippi, and on miscellaneous sugar-cane insects. 
Professor W. C. O’Kane gave an address on “Some New Facts About the Control 
of Nursery Pests’’ before the thirteenth annual meeting of the New England Nursery¬ 
men’s Association, Boston, Mass., January 30, and at a tree worker’s institute at 
New Haven, Conn., March 11 on “Some Insects Attacking Shade Trees.” 
Messrs. C. H. Popenoe, Sligo, Md., and J. E. Dudley, Jr., Madison, Wis., of the 
Bureau of Entomology attended the National Canner’s Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., 
January 21-26. Mr. Dudley presented a paper on the control of the pea aphis and 
Mr. Popenoe had charge of an exhibit made by the Bureau. 
The U. S. National Museum has recently temporarily assigned an additional room 
for use of the Bureau of Entomology, and the National Collection of Cocciaae has 
been moved into it. Mr. Harold E. Morrison and staff will also occupy this room. 
Formerly this collection was housed in the Insectary of the Bureau. 
Mr. E. A. McGregor, who was connected with the Bureau of Entomology for a 
number of years, has been reappointed and assigned to duty at Lindsay, Calif., 
where he will continue the field operations under way against the citrus thrips, work 
which was formerly conducted by A. J. Flebut, who recently resigned from the service. 
A conference of field foremen engaged in gipsy moth work in New York and 
western New England was held at Albany, N. Y., January 17 and 18. This meeting 
was addressed by H. L. McIntyre who presided, A. F. Burgess, Melrose Highlands,. 
Mass., W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn., Drs. E. P. Felt and M. D. Leonard, 
Albany, N. Y. 
Dr. Andrew Balfour, formerly Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratory, 
Khartum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, who worked for many years on medical ento¬ 
mology, especially sleeping sickness, and Colonel F. F. Russell, General Director of 
the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, visited 
the Bureau of Entomology recently. They also viewed the insect collections in the 
United States National Museum. 
