508 
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 17 
borer. His fine generosity and vision of professional service were largely 
instrumental in determining the practice of free interchange of plans of 
investigations and unpublished information on the European corn borer 
problem which has characterized the work in Canada and the United 
States from the first. The loss of his fellowship, experience, and resource¬ 
fulness is incalculable. In his untimely death Entomology has suffered 
a real loss, and his associates and co-workers in Canada and the United 
States will feel intimately the loss of his fine personality. 
Geo. A. Dean 
F. C. Craighead 
J. E. Graf 
Current Notes 
Mr. Alfred Lutken, Picayune, Miss., has resigned from the Bureau of Entomology. 
Mr. A. L. Strand, assistant professor of entomological extension at Pennsylvania 
State College resigned to take effect April 15. 
Mr. P. D. Sanders, M.S., University of Maryland, 1924, has been appointed 
Assistant Entomologist at the University of Maryland. 
Mr. Henry Stabe, a graduate student in zoology and entomology at Iowa State 
College, has accepted an instructorship in entomology at Louisiana State University. 
Mr. Geo. S. Langford, M.S., University of Maryland, 1924, has been appointed 
Deputy State Entomologist of Colorado, and assumed his new duties June 1st. 
Professor George A. Dean and W. R. Walton visited Brooklyn, N. Y., May 22, 
to inspect the clean-up woik being done there at the European corn borer infestation 
President A. F. Burgess has just taken a month’s trip to the Pacific coast, visiting 
a number of entomological departments and field stations on the way. 
Doctor H. H. Knight of the University of Minnesota has accepted an assistant 
professorship in entomology at Iowa State College. He will begin work at Ames in 
September. 
Mr. R. C. Burdette, a graduate of the University of Maryland in 1923, has been 
appointed to a graduate assistantship in the Department of Entomology of the 
University of Maryland. 
According to Science, the Alexander Dyer MacGillivray collection of Tenthredi- 
noidea has been purchased by the University of Illinois. The collection includes 
more than 400 types and about 1,000 species. 
Professor Wallace Park who is in charge of the apiculture w r ork at the University 
of Illinois is completing his work for a Doctor’s degree at Iowa State College this 
summer. 
Miss Pearl Anderson, Instructor in Zoology, University of Maryland, will go on 
half-time during the session of 1924-25, in order to take advanced work in the De¬ 
partment of Entomology. 
Dr. F. C. Craighead, Bureau of Entomology, spent several days during May in 
