October, ’18] 
CURRENT NOTES 
441 
Dr. Burton N. Gates has resigned from the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, Mass., to accept a position as professor of apiculture in the Ontario Agricul¬ 
tural College, Guelph, Ont. Dr. Gates was married June 15 to Miss Carpenter of 
Amherst. 
Prof. G. H. Lamson, Jr., of the Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., 
has been appointed a collaborator of the Bureau of Entomology, and will aid in de¬ 
vising methods for the control of insects in the trenches and around the military 
camps. 
The following transfers have been made in the Bureau of Entomology: Dr. W. V. 
King has been placed in charge of the mosquito investigations at Mound, La.; A. P. 
Swallow to College Station, Tex.; H. O. Marsh, active service, Colo., to collaborator, 
Chester, N. J. 
Mr. F. H. Lathrop, research assistant in the Department of Entomology, Oregon 
Agricultural College, has received a commission as second lieutenant in the Sanitary 
Corps of the army and was granted a leave of absence from the college for the 
duration of the war. 
Mr. A. B. Black, a graduate of the college and temporary field specialist in the 
Bureau of Entomology, has been appointed assistant entomologist at the Oregon 
Agricultural College. His major problem will be a study of the control of the western 
peach and prune root borer. 
Dr. Samuel Wendell Williston, professor of paleontology at the University of 
Chicago, died August 30, aged 66 years. Dr. Williston formerly paid much attention 
to a study of the Diptera, and published many papers including “Synopsis of the 
North American Syrphidse” (Bulletin No. 31, U. S. National Museum) and “Manual 
of North American Diptera” which reached its third edition in 1908. 
Mr. Lloyd R. Watson of the New York School of Agriculture at Alfred, N. Y,, 
has been appointed to take charge of the new department of beekeeping at the Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural College at Storrs, Conn. Mr. Watson will have charge of the 
College apiary, will give courses in beekeeping to the resident students and during 
the first year will probably devote the major portion of his time to extension work. 
According to Science a bill (Senate bill No. 3344) has been introduced by Senator 
Weeks of Massachusetts to prohibit the entry into the United States except by the 
secretary of agriculture, of all nursery stock. Field, vegetable and flower seeds, 
bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants, bulbs and roots are exempt from its 
provisions, and any stock brought in by the secretary of agriculture must be held in 
quarantine for a sufficient period to establish its freedom from insect pests and plant 
diseases. 
Resignations from the Bureau of Entomology are announced as follows: H. S. 
Saidel, C. H. Alden, D. A. Davis and A. D. Tilton to enter the army; R. S. Clute, 
Fla.; Ward H. Foster; E. F. Atwater; A. LeRoy Strand; R. B. Wilson; Perry W. 
Fattig, Fla.; Dr. O. H. Basseches, to become inspector in the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry; H. E. Loomis and A. H. Jarrell to enter the navy; Marshal Hertig, Minn., 
A. H. Sherwood, S. D., H. L. Seamans, Mont., C. K. Fisher, Colo., J. S. Stanford, 
to enter the army. 
The following appointments to the Bureau of Entomology have been announced; 
temporarily, tobacco insects, S. F. Grubbs, J. W. Hill, Scott C. Lyon, D. M. Rogers: 
cotton insects, Turner Davis, C. M. Brickwell; P. W. Mason, scientific assistant, 
