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The annual meeting of the Connecticut Beekeepers' Association was held at the 

 Capitol, Hartford, April 29. About 125 were present. The following officers were 

 reelected: President, Henry L. Lankton, Wethersfield; Secretary and Treasurer, 

 Louis St. Clair Burr, South Manchester. 



Beekeeping seminars are held regularly on the second and fourth Friday evenings 

 of each month at the Bee Culture Laboratory, Somerset, Maryland. Visiting ento- 

 mologists and beekeepers are welcome. The following subjects have been discussed 

 in these seminars since they were instituted: E. F. Phillips, Digestion of Carbohy- 

 drates by the Honeybee; A. P. Sturtevant, Hydrogen-ion Concentration; R. E. 

 Snodgrass, Metamorphosis in Insects; W. J. Nolan, Brood-rearing during the Season; 

 E. L. Sechrist, Tropical Beekeeping; P. B. Dunbar, The Food and Drugs Act. 



Pacific Slope Notes 



E. O. Essig will take a group of entomological students of the University of Cali- 

 fornia for a six weeks' stay in the Santa Clara and Pajaro Valleys where a practical 

 study of orchard and field insects will be made during the summer. 



Mr. John Lamiman who graduates in entomology at the University of California 

 this year, has been appointed a member of the entomological staff to investigate 

 orchard insects with particular reference to codling moth and peach borer. 



Mr. C. T. Dodds, a graduate student in Entomology at the University of Cali- 

 fornia, will spend the summer in Mexico assisting Mr. Zwalenburg in the introduction 

 and rearing of parasites to control the sugar cane borer. He expects to continue 

 his work at the University in the fall. 



Mr. Claude Wakeland, formerly extension entomologist of Idaho, has been ap- 

 pointed Experiment Station Entomologist, University of Idaho, with temporary 

 headquarters at Rexburg, Idaho, and Mr. Don B. Whelan succeeds Mr. Wakeland 

 as extension entomologist at the University. 



In a recent letter received by Professor Herms from Professor C. W. Woodworth 

 now in Nanking, China, there are many items of interest, among them the news that 

 he has organized a fly and mosquito campaign for that city and has been made a 

 special member of the Police Department and has a special office in the Yamer of the 

 Chief. Professor Woodworth has also had constructed a boat laboratory 48 feet 

 long and 11 feet wide, naming it the "Dragonfly," and the twenty horsepower motor 

 launch used to tow the same, is named the "Cicada." His organization of the 

 Kiangsu Province Bureau of Entomology is evidently progressing satisfactorily. 



Notes on Medical Entomology 



According to Science, Sir Ronald Ross has been elected a member of the Athenaeum 

 Club for "distinguished eminence in science." 



Sir Patrick Manson distinguished for his work on malaria and tropical diseases, 

 died on April 8, at the age of 76 years. 



Dr. Seymour Hadwen, chief veterinarian and parasitologist of the U. S. Biological 

 Survey, who has just completed an eighteen month's study of reindeer in Alaska, 

 sailed for England April 16, to continue his studies. 



Mr. G. F. Moznette of the Bureau of Entomology with headquarters at Miami, 

 Fla., addressed the local Kiwanis Club on March 23, the Rotary Club on April 6, 

 and the Chamber of Commerce on April 14, on the Miami mosquito problem and 

 methods of ridding the city of the mosquito menace. These talks were a part of the 

 program for arousing public support for the city's campaign against mosquitoes. 



