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Montana Board of Entomology. He has recently published several important 

 papers. 



The heavy packing used in the wintering of the colonies in the Drummond apiary 

 of the Bureau of Entomology proved quite beneficial, the only colonies lost during 

 the winter being those which were so weak in the fall as to make wintering virtually 

 impossible. 



Mr. F. M. Wadley, a senior at the Kansas State Agricultural College, and formerly 

 field assistant in the Bureau of Entomology in investigations under the direction of 

 F. B. Milliken, at Wichita, Kan., has been reengaged to assist in the same work for 

 the present season. 



Mr. A. T. Speare is very anxious to obtain scale insects of the genus Lecanium, 

 or its near relatives, that are parasitized by fungi, and specimens of these insects 

 from any host plant will be gratefully received. (Address: A. T. Speare, Bureau 

 of Entomology, Washington, D. C.) 



Mr. S. A. Rohwer, of the Bureau of Entomology, is anxious to get Cimbex larvse. 

 He wants live material of large larvse with host, locality, and other data. They 

 should be sent to him in tin boxes stocked with food and addressed to East Falls 

 Church, Va., Forest Insect Field Station. 



Mr. R. E. Campbell, Bureau of Entomologj', who has been in charge of an experi- 

 ment station at Hayward, Cal., will remove to Pasadena, Cal., as new headquarters, 

 retaining Hayward as a sub-station. He will continue work on insects injurious to 

 stored products, to sugar beets, and to truck crops. 



Mr. H. E. Smith, Bureau of Entomology, reports that an inspection of the region 

 in the Merrimac Valley of New England which was heavily infested with grass- 

 hoppers and treated with poisoned baits last summer, reveals the fact that very 

 few grasshopper eggs are to be found alive this spring. 



According to Science, Dr. Frank E. Lutz, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, and Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, have planned to spend July and part of August making a field study of 

 the insect fauna of the isolated mountains southwest of Tucson, Ariz. 



Mr. Raphael Zon, Chief of Forest Investigations, of the Forest Service, spent several 

 days during the latter part of May inspecting the silvicultural experiments and con- 

 ferring in regard to the cooperative work which is being carried on by the Bureau of 

 Entomology and the Forest Service in connection with the gipsy moth problem. 



An extension project has been started by the Bureau of Entomology in cooperation 

 with the South Carolina Agricultural College. The object of the work is to place 

 the results of the recent investigations of the cotton wireworm in the possession of 

 planters throughout the state. This is the first project of this kind which has been 

 organized in the Bureau. 



At the invitation of Mrs. John Dickson Sherman, Chairman of Conservation of the 

 General Federation of Women's Clubs, the branch of Forest Insect Investigations 

 of the Bureau of Entomology cooperated in an exhibit under the auspices of the 

 Federation in the 7th Regiment Armory, New York City, held May 23 to June 1. 

 The exhibit consisted of specimens of the work and insects of the hickory barkbeetle, 

 Scolytus quadris'pinosus in hickory, and the two-lined chestnut borer, Agrilus bilinea- 

 tus affecting oak. Placards, with specimens of work of the two insects and folders 



