February, ’18] 
CURRENT NOTES 
153 
Mr. W. R. Walton, in charge of cereal crop insect investigations of the Federal 
Bureau of Entomology, visited the Department of Entomology, Kansas State 
Agricultural College, on November 1. 
A fire at Mount Holyoke College on December 22, 1917, destroyed Lyman Wil- 
liston Hall, containing the biological science laboratories and museum. All en¬ 
tomological collections were destroyed. 
Dr. H. T. Fernald, Amherst, Mass., has resigned as state nursery inspector, a posi¬ 
tion under the Board of Agriculture which he has held for fifteen years, and his 
deputy, Mr. R. H. Allen, has been appointed in his place. 
Prof. Herbert Osborn of Ohio State University, and Dr. E. D. Ball, state entomol¬ 
ogist of Wisconsin, spent several days in Washington, D. C., in November with 
Mr. E. H. Gibson, examining types of Homoptera at the National Museum. 
The program of Sunday afternoon lectures given in the Museum of Golden Gate 
Park, San Francisco, Cal., included a lecture for December 16, on “The Growth and 
Transformations of Insects,” by Professor E. O. Essig of the University of California, 
Mr. T. L. Guyton and Mr. J. R. Stear, graduates of Ohio State University, have 
been appointed assistants on the entomological staff of the Ohio Experiment Station 
at Wooster. Last year Mr. Stear was assistant instructor in Entomology, University 
of Illinois. 
Professor H. A. Gossard, entomologist of the Ohio Station, read a paper before 
the National Nut Growers’ Association, Biloxi, Miss., October 10, in answer to the 
question, “Has any standard fruit industry as few diseases and insect enemies as 
the pecan?” 
The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been reported: 
Gerson Garb, extension work, truck crop insects, Mineola, L. I.; Harry W. Allen, 
scientific assistant, and G. E. Clement, assistant in forest management, Melrose 
Highlands, Mass. 
Mr. E. Lee Worsham has resigned his position as state entomologist of Georgia 
in order to devote his time entirely to the conservation of the Sea Island cotton in¬ 
dustry. He will be engaged in cotton production on Sapelo Island, and his address 
will be Sapelo, McIntosh County, Ga, 
According to Science, Dr. A. B. Cordley, Dean of Agriculture at the Oregon 
Agricultural College, and Director of the Station, has been elected chairman of the 
State Lime Committee, authorized by the legislature to build and operate a state- 
owned lime plant for providing cheap agricultural lime. 
Moving picture films showing various phases of the gipsy-moth investigation 
were exhibited at the meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario at McDonald 
College, and also at Ottawa, Canada, during November, and at the Pittsburgh meet¬ 
ing of the American Association of Economic Entomologists. 
According to Science, Professor W. B. Herms of the University of California has 
been making an entomological survey of sanitary conditions in the neighborhood of 
the cantonments of the western department of the army, to aid in preventing the 
spread of those diseases, such as malaria, which are carried by insects. 
The Association of Economic Biologists, at a recent meeting of the Council, decided 
to throw open its membership to non-British subjects. Foreign members will there- 
