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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



to carry on queen-rearing work and varietal studies. Experiments were also com- 

 menced on the outdoor wintering of bees, twelve colonies being placed in large wooden 

 ses specially constructed to contain four hives each 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The correspondence for all parts of the Dominion relating to the identification 

 of insect pests and requesting advice as to methods of control has increased consider- 

 ably. The field ion are already rendering useful service in their 

 respective regions in the matter of advising farmers and fruit growers in regard to 

 the control of insect pests. An increasing number of collections of insects have been 

 named for individuals and educational institutions. A collection of insects is being 

 arranged in the Division, the various o ■ for certain on! 

 An exhibit of injurious and beneficial insects and their work was : 'd for the 

 Dominion Exhibition held at Ottawa. 



Vis i made to various pr< for the purposes of giving add] 



an . - Id work. In May, the Dominion Entomologist visited Nova 



idek and Massach in connection with the field laboratoi 



in those provinces and the Brown-tail Moth campaign. 



The International Coi ■ of Entomology, held at Oxford. England, v 



attended from August to 10, and on August 12 he attended a conference called 

 the Secretary of State for the Colonies at the Colonial Office to work out a schi 

 for Imperial co-i ion in preventing the spread and 1 ion 



of insect pests. ' : inference, and a pre. Dnferenee ! ave 



resulted in the establishment of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, to which ref 

 once is made later. Lectures and addresses have been given at Halifax, St. John, 

 N.B.. Toronto, Winnipeg, etc. In February a visit was made to North PorLal 

 and Winnipeg. Mr. Gibson lectured on the control of fruit pests at a short com 

 held at Charlottetown, P.E.I., in January, and has t ed other meetings, 



already stated, Mr. Swaine has visited inces, st .■: forest insect depre- 



dations. Mr. Sladen conducted a shi lture at the Nova Scotia 



Agricultural College in January, and tly studied apicultural conditions in 



Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. By these and ilar means, the Division has 



been enabled to extend its energies over a large field. 



IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



An Imperial Bureau of Entomology has been instituted in connection with the 

 Colonial Office, and it has been d t co-operate in its maintenance. Its chief 



function will be that of an intelligence bureau. In this connection, information will 

 be collected fr '• parts of the world concerning injurious insects and the plants, 



or animals, which they attack. A journal, The Review of A 7 Entomology, is also 



being published, and this contains summaries of current literature relating to 

 injurious insects and their control. The Bureau will also undertake the identification 

 of insects. As a means of co-ordinating the work of preventing the spread and fur- 

 thering the investigation of injurious insects within the Empire, the Bureau will 

 undoubtedly prove of considerable service. 



