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Mr. C. N. Ainslie of the Elk Point, S. D., field laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, 

 visited Washington during the winter for the first time in seven years, for the purpose 

 of consultation and the preparation of manuscript. 



Mr. A. I. Fabis, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to his field station at Monti- 

 cello, Fla., after spending some time in Washington. He will resume his duties at 

 Monticello, assisting Mr. GQl in pecan-insect investigations. 



The following were among the visitors at the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 

 D. C, during December: Wilmon Xewell, Plant Commissioner of Florida; J. T. Craw- 

 ley, Director of the Cuban Experiment Station; A. H. Rosenfeld, Director of the 

 Tucuman Experiment Station, and Prof. C. T. Brues, of Bussey Institution. 



According to Science, Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, will give the evening lecture at the general 

 meeting of the American Philosophical Society on the evening of AprU 14. The 

 subject will be, "On Some Disease-bearing Insects." 



Mr. H. G. Ingerson, Bureau of Entomology-, who has been assisting Mr. F. L. 

 Simanton at Benton Harbor, Mich., in orchard insecticide investigations, has been 

 in Washington for the purpose of preparing notes on the subject of his field investiga- 

 tions and library work. 



Mr. W. D. Hunter, Bureau of Entomology, in company with G. B. Sudworth of 

 the Forest Serv-ice, both members of the Federal Horticultm"al Board, \'isited Boston 

 during the month of January in connection with the preparations for the fumigation 

 of all foreign cottons arriving in the United States after February 1. 



Mr. E. G. Carr, State Apiary Inspector of New Jersey, has recently been employed 

 by the Bureau of Entomologj' to make a survey of the present conditions and possi- 

 bilities of beekeeping in the state of North Carolina. He finds the outlook most 

 promising and spent the month of January in Washington making out reports on 

 this line of work. 



Mr. C. M. Packard, recently attached to the staff at the Wellington, Kan., field 

 laborator>', Bureau of Entomology, was in Washington during a portion of the month 

 of January. Mr. Packard has in preparation a paper dealing with the biology of 

 several parasites of the Hessian fly. 



Mr. F. L. Simanton, Bureau of Entomology, who has been engaged in investiga- 

 tions of orchard insecticides and spraying machinery, with headquarters at Benton 

 Harbor, Mich., visited Washington recently for the purpose of summarizing notes 

 on the subject of his field investigations, preparation of manuscripts and hbrary 

 work. 



A letter written by A. W. J. Pomeroy from Kamerun, West Africa, on November 

 7, 1915, reached Washington on March 2. Mr. Pomeroy is now a lieutenant in the 

 West African Frontier Force. He has been ill ^\ith some tropical fever but at the 

 time of wTiting was on active duty. 



A course of fifteen public lectures on tropical medicine is being given Saturday 

 mornings at the University of California. Dr. E. L. Walker gives five of these lec- 

 tures and his subject for AprU 1,5 is "Parasitic Insects and the Role of Insects in the 

 Transmission of Tropical Diseases." 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, attended ten conventions of beekeepers 

 in the Middle West during November and December, these being arranged in a 



