April, ’18] 
CURRENT NOTES 
273 
Mr. Frank J. Rimoldi, a recent graduate of Cornell University and a former stu¬ 
dent of the Connecticut Agricultural College, has been appointed by the Federal 
Bureau of Entomology as extension entomologist for work on deciduous fruit insects 
in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. 
Entomologists have been commissioned first lieutenants in the army as follows: 
L. H. Dunn, Army Medical School, Washington, D. C., E. H. Gibson, Camp 
Humphrey, Va., A. H. Jennings, Camp Shelby, Miss., H. L. Parker, Camp Lee, Va., 
D. L. Van Dine, Camp Travis, Tex., and Neal F. Howard. 
The Brooklyn Entomological Society recently elected officers for 1918 as follows: 
president, W. T. Bather; vice-president, W. T. Davis; treasurer, Chris. E. Olsen; 
recording secretary, J. R. de la Torre Bueno; corresponding secretary, R. P. Dow; 
publication committee, R. P. Dow, editor; C. Schaeffer and J. R. de la Torre Bueno. 
Mr. Quincy S. Lowry, assistant entomologist of the Connecticut Agricultural 
Experiment Station, resigned March 1 to accept a position as extension entomologist 
with the Federal Bureau of Entomology. Mr. Lowry will work with truck crop 
insects and will cover Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, with head¬ 
quarters at Amherst, Mass. 
Professor Francis Jager, chief of the bee division of the Department of Agriculture 
of the University of Minnesota, has been granted six months’ leave of absence to 
head a group of men who are to go to Serbia to direct farming operations on a large 
tract of land. Seed, agricultural machinery and tools will be carried from this 
country, and preparations are practically completed for transportation facilities. 
According to Science , Professor William B. Herms, professor of parasitology and 
acting head of the Department of Entomology, University of California, has been 
appointed captain in the Sanitary Corps, National Army, and has been ordered to 
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for duty. Captain Herms was actively engaged during 
the past summer and autumn in investigating the sanitation of military camps in the 
Western Department, particularly as regards mosquitoes and flies. 
The lecture course of the California Academy of Sciences included the following 
lectures by entomologists: January 20, “Forest Insects” (illustrated), by Professor 
R. W. Doane of Stanford University; January 27, “Experiences in a Georgia Swamp” 
(illustrated), by Professor J. C. Bradley of Cornell University, but for the college 
year at the University of California; March 10, “Pine Insects and Their Depreda¬ 
tions,” by Mr. Ralph Hoppin of the United States Forest Service. 
The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been announced 
recently: C. S. Whittington of the boll-weevil laboratory; H. K. Laramore, special 
field agent, College Station, Tex., to accept a call to the colors; E. G. Smyth, to accept 
a state position as extension entomologist in Texas; H. L. Dozier, Tempe, Ariz., to 
complete his work for a doctor’s degree in Florida; E. O. G. Kelly, Wellington, Kan., 
to enter private business; David Running, apiculture, on account of illness; J. H. 
Wagner, apiculture; E. P. Barrios, special field agent, extension work in Southern 
Louisiana; R. C. Pickett, special field agent, extension work in Texas. 
The following transfers have been made in the Bureau of Entomology: to the 
Federal Horticultural Board for temporary work on the pink boll-worm in Texas; 
U. C. Loftin, H. P. Smith, K. B. McKinney and Tobert Slack; W. M. Davidson, 
