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Reviews 
Insect Artizans and Their Work. By Edward Step. Pages 1 to 318. 54 illustra¬ 
tions. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920. 
We have in this little volume an interesting series of sympathetic discussions of the 
activities of various insects, their nature being indicated by such titles as spinners and 
weavers, miners, masons, carpenters and wood-workers, upholsterers, wax-workers, 
paper makers, tailors, etc. The author, following the lead of Fabre, has brought 
into a volume records of the habits of a number of the more interesting typical species, 
mostly European, some American and others from different parts of the world. Those 
with a liking for natural history and the adaptation of life to varying conditions, will 
find much that is suggestive and stimulating. We have in this volume, non-techni- 
cal accounts, attractive to the amateur and by no means uninteresting to those who 
have penetrated deeper into the mysteries of nature. 
Current Notes 
Conducted by the Associate Editor 
Mr. William Beutenmuller has changed his address to Box 258, High wood, Bergen 
County, N. J. 
The annual meeting of the New York State beekeepers took place at Syracuse, 
December 1-3. 
Mr. F. G. Graham has been appointed temporary superintendent of fumigation at 
Windsor, Ontario. 
Dr. C. C. Miller, a prominent authority on apiculture, died at his home, Marengo, 
Ill., September 4, 1920. 
Mr. Harlan P. Worthley has been appointed investigator in entomology at the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
Mr. A. C. Mason, Bureau of Entomology, has been assigned to work'on biological 
studies of rust mites at Orlando, Fla. 
Mr. Arthur D. Borden, Bureau of Entomology, is now in charge of the laboratory 
at Alhambra, Calif., vice R. S. Woglum, resigned. 
The Experiment Station Record announces the resignation of V. R. Haber, as re¬ 
search assistant in entomology at the Minnesota Station. 
According to Science , Professor Harold R. Hagan has resigned as professor of 
zoology and entomology, at the Utah Agricultural College. 
The North-Western Beekeepers’ Association held its annual meeting at the Great 
Northern Hotel, Chicago, on Monday and Tuesday, December 6 and 7. 
Professor W. W. Henderson, formerly entomologist at the Utah Station and College, 
has been appointed president of Brigham Young College, Logan, Utah. 
The degree of doctor of laws has been conferred by Brown University upon Pro¬ 
fessor Vernon Kellogg of Stanford University, now secretary of the National Research 
Council. 
Entomologists have just learned of the death of Mr. William H. Patton, of Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. Mr. Patton died a year or more ago. For many years he had been in 
the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, and formerly published a number of articles 
