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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 11 
Current Notes 
Conducted by the Associate Editor 
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R. K. Vickey is a private in the sanitary corps at camp Meade. 
Mr. A. O. Larson, assistant entomologist at the Utah Station, has resigned to 
accept a position in the high school at Manhattan, Mont. 
Dr. W. A. Riley of Cornell University has been appointed professor of parasitology 
and chief of the Division of Economic Zoology at the University of Minnesota. 
The Fifth Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association 
was held January 31 and February 1 at the Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, N. J. 
P. H. Luginbill, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Columbia, S. C., has been re¬ 
quested by the medical director of Camp Jackson to give part of his time to 
camp problems. 
According to Science Dr. W. D. Hunter of the Bureau of Entomology has been 
elected a vice-president of the Washington Academy of Sciences, representing the 
Entomological Society. 
Mr. Wallace Park, a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College, has been 
appointed assistant in apiculture in the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and 
entered on his duties February 1. 
Mr. W. H. Larrimer, Bureau of Entomology, formerly attached to the West 
Lafayette, Ind., field laboratory, has been granted an indefinite furlough in order to 
enter an officers’ training camp. 
Rev. Harry R. Caldwell has recently presented the American Museum of Natural 
History with a collection of about 8,000 insects from China, in appreciation of which 
he has been made a life member. 
Mr. A. J. Flebut, Bureau of Entomology, who has been in charge of the work on 
chestnut weevils, with headquarters at Paxinos, Pa., has been granted an indefinite 
furlough for the purpose of entering the Officers’ Training Camp at Camp Upton, N. Y. 
According to Science , Mr. Charles A. Hart, systematic entomologist of the Illinois 
State Natural History Survey, died suddenly of heart disease on February 17. He 
was an active member of this Association, and a member of the American Society of 
Zoologists. 
Professor A. G. Ruggles, associate entomologist of the Minnesota University and 
Station, has been appointed state and station entomologist of Minnesota vice F. L. 
Washburn, who at his own request was granted relief from the position and its attend¬ 
ant police duties. 
Dr. Clarence Moores Weed of the State Normal School, Lowell, Mass., formerly 
professor of Entomology and Zoology at the New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H., 
has been called to Washington, D. C., to take charge of the school gardens of the city 
during the coming season. 
