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344 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 11 
Current Notes 
Conducted by the Associate Editor 
Mr. Albert Hartzell has been appointed assistant in entomology at the Iowa 
College and Station. 
Prof. E. H. Dusham has been promoted to be Professor of Entomology at the 
Pennsylvania State College. 
‘S. W. Frost, Cornell University, has been appointed entomologist of the Adams 
County, Penn., laboratory to study fruit insects. 
Prof. John H. Comstock of Cornell University was recently elected a correspondent 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Mr. R. R. Reppert, graduate assistant of the Kansas State Agricultural College,, 
has accepted a position as Assistant Entomologist of Virginia. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, attended the meeting of the National 
Beekeepers’ Association at Burlington, Iowa, February 19-20. 
Prof. Herbert Osborn of the Ohio State University, has been appointed an asso¬ 
ciate on the staff of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Mr. T. H. Parks, extension entomologist of the Kansas State Agricultural College* 
resigned April 15 to accept a similar position with Ohio State University. 
Mr. W. E. Jackson became assistant entomologist of the Texas Station, October 
1,1917, and has taken up work in combating foul brood diseases of the apiary. 
Dr. J. H. Merrill, assistant professor of Entomology, Kansas State Agricultural 
College, has been appointed State Apiarist of Kansas. He still retains his position 
with the College. 
Mr. M. D. Leonard of Cornell University has been appointed entomologist at 
Girard, Erie County, laboratory of the Pennsylvania State College, and will study 
vegetable insects. 
The Agricultural Appropriation bill now in conference carries an item of $500,- 
000.00 for the pink bollworm work in Texas and Mexico, including the border in¬ 
spection service. 
Mr. P. W. Mason, assistant professor of Entomology at Purdue University, La¬ 
fayette, Ind., has resigned to accept a position in the Bureau of Entomology of the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Messrs. R. W. Gies and J. B. Leslie, Chief Inspectors respectively of the Union 
and Bergen County, New Jersey, Mosquito Extermination Commissions, have re¬ 
ceived commissions in the Sanitary Corps of the national army. 
Mr. E. O. G. Kelly, for many years in charge of the Wellington (Kansas) Station 
of the Federal Bureau of Entomology, has accepted a position as Extension Ento¬ 
mologist with the Kansas State Agricultural College. 
According to Science , Prof. James Zetek, professor of biology and hygiene at the 
Instituto Nacional de Panama, has been appointed entomologist of the Board of 
Health Laboratory of the Ancon Hospital, Canal Zone. 
