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of certain facts with the same force as the specialist. On the other 
hand, it is not always easy to find a specialist with a breadth of training 
and experience which makes him capable of appreciating the coordinate 
value of related lines. Nevertheless, consideration for human welfare 
demands the solution of many problems and it behooves official agen¬ 
cies to endeavor to meet this need more fully by inaugurating compre¬ 
hensive and well coordinated investigations for the solution of some of 
the more pressing general problems. It is quite possible that the 
National Research Council can perform a most valuable function in 
determining possibilities along these lines and work out one or more 
feasible methods of coordinated study and thus assist in utilizing to 
better advantage the numerous scientists and scientific agencies scat¬ 
tered throughout the country. 
Current Notes 
Dr. L. O. Howard sailed for Europe May 15. 
Mr. J. L. Horsfall has recently been appointed instructor in Economic Entomology 
at the Pennsylvania State College. 
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell and Mrs. Cockerell expect to sail for England July 10 and 
will not return to Boulder until August, 1921. 
Mr. R, N. Chrystal of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of 
Agriculture, who has recently been ill, is now in England. 
Word has just been received that Mr. Richard Helms, Sydney, New South Wales, 
Australia, a foreign member of this association, died a few years ago. 
Dr. H. C. Wood, formerly professor in the Medical School of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and a student of the Myriapoda, died January 3, 1919. 
Mr. R. W. Leiby, assistant Entomologist of the North Carolina Agricultural 
Experiment Station is secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Academy of Science. 
Mr. C. P. Clausen of the Bureau of Entomology, who was recently appointed to 
undertake a study of the parasites of the Japanese beetle is now in Japan for that 
purpose. 
Mr. F. C. Bishop, of the Bureau of Entomology, recently made a trip to various 
counties in New York for the purpose of investigating the ox warble fly situation in 
that state. 
Mr. T. H. Jones of the Bureau of Entomology, has completed a preliminary survey 
of the entomological situation at Fort Myers, Fla., and has resumed his work at Baton 
Rouge, La. 
Messrs. F. M. Chipman, brown-tail moth survey, and L. M. How, Annapolis 
Laboratory, have resigned from the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of 
Agriculture. 
Miss Emily L. Morton, a student and artist, who worked on the Lepidoptera with 
Dr. A. S. Packard, W. H. Edwards and others, died at her home, New Windsor, N. Y., 
January 8, 1920. 
Mr. E. R. Barber, Bureau of Entomology, expects to return to Cuba shortly for the 
purpose of collecting and shipping to this country parasites of the sugar-cane moth 
borer. The results of his shipments in 1919 have been so promising that the Louisiana 
