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Dr. C. L. A. Laveran, professor at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, and the discoverer 

 of the malarial parasite in Algeria in 1880, died May IS, at the age of 77. Dr. 

 Laveran received the Nobel prize for medicine in 1907. 



A meeting was held recently at Harvard University, at which the subject under 

 discussion was the killing of flies and mosquitoes. Sanitary experts, business men 

 and the heads of women's and children's welfare organizations of the metropolitan 

 district were present. J. Albert C. Nyhen, director of fly and mosquito suppression 

 of the Brookline Board of Health, and Prof. G. C. Whipple, of the engineering depart- 

 ment of Harvard University, called the meeting, at which Prof. Whipple presided. 

 Its purposes were to consider action to be taken in a co-operative movement for the 

 suppression of mosquitoes and flies in the metropolitan area and to call a later meeting 

 to start a state-wide campaign. It is hoped that all insect nuisances affecting public 

 health may be abolished and the movement will try to include the flea and the biting 

 fly. 



Apicultural Notes 



The 42d annual convention of the Ontario Beekeepers' Association will be held at 

 Toronto, December 6-8. 



Kentucky has enacted a new foul brood law with Professor Harrison Garman in 

 charge of its administration. 



The annual meeting of the Georgia Beekeepers' Association was scheduled to be 

 held at Hopkins, Ga., August 24-26. 



Mr. George R. Vansell has been appointed by the University of California for the 

 work in beekeeping at the University Farm, Davis, Cal. 



The annual field day of the Eastern Massachusetts Society of Beekeepers was 

 scheduled to be held at Boston, Saturday, August 19, with Dr. E. F. Phillips as the 

 principal speaker. 



A joint field meeting of the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' Association and the 

 Northern Pennsylvania Beekeepers' Association was announced to be held August 3, 

 at the apiary of Harry Beaver, Troy, Pa. 



According to Gleanings in Bee Culture, the committee in charge of the Millei 

 Memorial Fund has decided to locate the Memorial Library devoted to apiculture, 

 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 



The Wisconsin Beekeepers' Field Meetmg and Conference was held at Green Bay, 

 Wis., August 7-11. Speakers from outside the State were Dr. E. F. Phillips, E. R. 

 Root, George S. Demuth and C. P. Dedant. 



The Empire State Federation of Beekeepers' Co-operative Association, Inc., for- 

 merly the New York State Association of Beekeepers' Societies, announced the hold- 

 ing of an annual picnic and summer meeting at the home apiary of N. L.vStevens, 

 Venice Center, Cayuga County, N. Y., on August 4. 



The Maryland State Beekeepers' Association met for an afternoon field meeting 

 at the Bee Culture Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology on July 29. A short 

 program was arranged by the members of the Bureau staff and the visitors were shown 



