June, ’24] 
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Current Notes 
Entomological News for May announces the deaths of Herbert Campion, London, 
England, January 24, and of Dr. L. Peringuev, at Capetown, February 20, 1924. 
Mr.R. T.Cotton of the Bureau of Entomology has recently been operated upon 
for appendicitis, and is now rapidly recovering. 
Dr. T. L. Guyton has been elected Assistant Secretary of the new Pennsylvania 
Academy of Science, organized at Harrisburg, April 18. 
Mr. E. A. Vaughan of the Bureau of Entomology has been transferred from Thom- 
asville, Ga., to general grain investigations at Orlando, Fla. 
On March 19, Prof. C. L. Metcalf delivered the Sigma Xi lecture for the Illinois 
chapter on the subject “Methods of Warfare Against Insects.” 
Mr. J. R. Horton of the Bureau of Entomology was at Manhattan, Kansas, on 
April 3, for a conference with the Entomologists of the Kansas Experiment Station. 
Miss Evelyn Wells and Mr. John Bailey, advanced students of the University of 
Tennessee, have accepted positions with the Department of Entomology, University 
of Tennessee. 
Mr. Hushime Murayama is spending several weeks at the Division of Insects* 
U. S. National Museum, making drawings, chiefly of butterflies and moths, for the 
National Geographic Society. 
Mr. C. C. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Entomology in the University of 
Maryland, spent several days during March in the Entomological Laboratory at the 
Kansas State Agricultural College. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Outright and their infant son, Holt, have returned to Wooster 
from Ohio State University, where Mr. Outright has been pursuing experiments with 
subterranean aphids. 
Mr. F. E. Whitehead, a graduate student of the Kansas State Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, has accepted a position as Extension Entomologist and Associate Professor of 
Entomology at the University of Idaho. 
According to Science, Mr. Albert Hugh Jones, the English entomologist, who 
made important contributions to science while engaged in banking, has died at the 
age of 84 years. 
Mr. Guy F. McLeod, Assistant Entomologist, New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station, Geneva, N. Y., has been appointed Assistant Professor of Extension Ento¬ 
mology at the Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. 
Dr. William Barnes of Decatur, 111., recently spent about three days in the 
Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum, consulting with Mr. Busck and examin¬ 
ing types in the collection of Lepidoptera. 
Mr. J. C. Bridwell, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology and recently continu¬ 
ing his work upon the classification of Bruchidae, has accepted a position at Columbia 
University as Lecturer in Extension Entomology. 
Dr. James Zetek, in charge of the laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology at 
Ancon, Canal Zone, will shortly visit Washington for the purpose of discussing plans 
of future work at the station. 
The periodical Cicada (Tibicina septendecim) tredecim race is due to appear in 35 
