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scientific purposes, is the object of Senate Bill 3344. It has the back¬ 
ing of a number of forestry associations and primarily is an outcome of 
the chestnut blight and white pine blister rust situation, especially the 
latter, though the ravages of imported insects have also had a bearing 
upon the matter. Brief in text, its provisions are sweeping in char¬ 
acter, since it prohibits, except as stated above, the importation of 
“ nursery stock,” including “all field-grown florists’ stock, trees, 
shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds 
of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant 
products for propagation, except field, vegetable and flower seeds, 
bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots.” The 
scope of this bill is so broad and the change so great that it should not 
be allowed to pass until all interests affected have had a chance to study 
its provisions most carefully and an opportunity to present their side 
of the case. It vitally affects our extensive horticultural interests and 
should therefore be given most careful consideration. 
Current Notes 
Conducted by the Associate Editor 
The Review of Applied Entomology announces the death of Mr. C. W. Mason, Gov¬ 
ernment Entomologist in Nyasaland. 
Miss Anna Wuentz has been appointed graduate assistant in Entomology at the 
Minnesota Station, beginning January 1, 1918. 
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Station has a new building which provides fire¬ 
proof quarters for the entomological collections. 
Professor H. A. Morgan represented Tennessee at the meeting of federal food ad¬ 
ministrators at Washington, D. C., January 9 and 10, 1918. 
Dr. J. C. Bradley gave an illustrated lecture on December 19, on “The Okefinoke,” 
before the monthly meeting of the California Academy of Sciences. 
Dr. D. L. Crawford of Pomona College, Claremont, Cal., has been appointed pro¬ 
fessor of Entomology at Hawaii College and has entered upon his duties. 
Mr. William D. Kearfott, head of the Kearfott Engineering Company of New 
York City, and a specialist in the microlepidoptera, died November 13, 1917. 
First Lieut. A. H. Jennings, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology, has been 
ordered to report at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., for duty in the Sanitary Corps. 
Mr. R. D. Whitmarsh, assistant entomologist of the Ohio Station, has been com¬ 
missioned a captain in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and assigned to duty at Camp 
Grant, Rockford, Ill. 
Messrs. Leonard S. McLaine and W. H. Brittain of the office of the Dominion 
Entomologist, Canada, were visitors at the gipsy moth parasite laboratory, Melrose 
Highlands, Mass., in November. 
