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They also presented the situation to the American Honey Producers' League at the 

 Salt Lake City Meeting in February and resolutions were passed by the League favor- 

 ing a quarantine action. Later developments are given on a preceding page. 



Pacific Slope News 



Professor S. B. Freeborn has undertaken some important poultry parasite inves- 

 tigations at Petaluma, California. 



Mr. G. A. Coleman, apiculturist, attended the annual meeting of the State Bee- 

 keepers' Association at Visalia, in February. 



Professor R. H. Smith, State Entomologist of Idaho, was a visitor at the Depart- 

 ment of Entomology, University of California in January. 



Mr. Frank B. Herbert, formerly with the Forest Insect Investigations of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, is with the Balfour Guthrie Company 

 with address at San Jose, California. 



Mr. D. L. Currier, formerly County Horticultural Commissioner of San Benito 

 County, California, has accepted the position of entomologist for the San Jose 

 Spray Company, ■with headquarters at San Jose. 



Miss Therese Beckwith, a graduate in entomology from Stanford University in 

 1921, has been appointed Departmental Technician in Entomology at the Oregon 

 Agricultural College. She will have charge of the departmental collection, library and 

 files. 



Director S. B. Doten of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station was a visitor 

 at the University of California in January to confer with Dr. H. P. Severin on the 

 curly leaf situation at Fallon, Nevada. 



Professor Asa Maxon of the Great Western Sugar Company, Longmont, Colorado, 

 called on Dr. H. P. Severin, University of California, to talk over the field investiga- 

 tion on the beet leafhopper which the latter has conducted the past few years in 

 California. 



Professor W. B. Herms, head of the Division of Entomology and Parasitology, 

 University of California, has just directed the completion of a moving picture film 

 on the general subject of Malaria. The film is complete in every detail and has been 

 received with great appreciation wherever shown. 



Mr. J. D. Neuls, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology, is now with the Pacific 

 Platinum Works, 229 East 9th Street, Los Angeles, California. Mr. Neuls formerly 

 specialized in hydrocyanic acid gas fumigation and has considerable unpublished 

 fundamental data. He will be glad to help any one investigating fumigation problems. 

 Mr. Ralph H. Smith, Station Entomologist of Idaho, with headquarters at Twin 

 Falls, has accepted a position with the CaHfornia Central Creameries as Research 

 Entomologist, the appointment to take place March 1. Mr. Smith's work will have 

 to do particularly with investigations of insecticides and the uses and limitations of 

 commercial caseinate spreaders. 



Dr. E. C. Van Dyke has been going to Monterey week ends during the past few 

 months to advise the Del Monte Properties Company in regard to the control of a 

 number of bark beetles which have been doing a great amount of injury to the 

 Monterey pines on their extensive holding comprising over a thousand acres. 



According to Science, Professor Warren T. Clark, professor of agricultural extension 

 work, University of CaUfomia, has been invited as a guest of the Pacific Mail Steam- 

 ship Company to study the control of ants on shipboard. He sailed on December 

 l2, on the Columbia which makes Mexican and Central American ports, passing 

 through the Canal and proceeding by way of Havana to Baltimore. 



