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advisable that they should. It is entirely possible for a very large pro¬ 
portion of our people to cultivate an appreciation of the various mani¬ 
festations of nature and through such understanding put themselves 
in a position to more readily detect the unusual. This is especially 
desirable among agriculturists, though it should by no means be limited 
to one class. Attention is called to this matter because it is believed 
that all such agencies can and should be utilized in keeping watch 
upon the varied activities of insects, and in doing this we are engaged 
in one line of economic entomology. 
Current Notes 
Conducted by the Associate Editor 
The Wolley-Dod Collection of Lepidoptera has been bequeathed to the Entomo¬ 
logical Branch and arrived in Ottawa on June 23. 
Doctor A. B. Cordley has retired as director of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment 
Station, but continues as dean of the School of Agriculture. 
Mr. J. A. Flock, junior entomologist at the Strathroy Laboratory, Dominion of 
Canada, resigned on August 4 to go into commercial work. 
The old insectary at Cornell University, built by Professor Comstock in 1886, has 
been torn down to make room for the new chemistry building. 
Professor H. A. Gossard, Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, spent 
his vacation in an automobile trip through northern Illinois and parts of Iowa. 
Thousands of acres of hardwood forest land have been stripped by forest tent 
caterpillars in New Brunswick, the greatest damage occurring in the vicinity of 
Moncton. 
Apanteles lacteicolor was again recovered from brown-tail winter webs collected in 
Nova Scotia. This recovery is quite gratifying as only a few nests of this pest were 
found last winter. 
Mr. E. P. Felt, state entomologist of New York, was presented September 14, with 
a traveling bag by his associates on the State Museum staff in recognition of twenty- 
five years of service. 
Mr. P. R. Lowry, a graduate of the Ohio State University, who was employed 
temporarily as assistant in the entomological department of the Ohio station in 1917, 
is again assisting the same department for the summer. 
Professor R. D. Watt of the School of Agriculture, The University, Sydney, Aus¬ 
tralia, visited the Entomological Branch, Ottawa, Canada, the latter part of July and 
reported on the meetings of the Imperial Entomological Conference held in London, 
England, last June. 
The Canadian Forest Insect Field laboratory has been moved from Fort Coulonge 
and will be placed near Queen’s Park, Aylmer, P. Q., in a suitable location. The 
bark beetle control work in British Columbia is practically completed for this season. 
Mr. Hopping is now supervising the final work including burning the slash from the 
winter’s cutting operations. Mr. Dunn has taken charge of a party on the spruce 
budworm survey in New Brunswick. Messrs. McFarlane and Crosbie recently ap- 
