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return Mr. L. P. Rockwood wdll be transferred temporarily to Forest Grove, Ore., to 

 assist in the clover-insect investigations being carried on at and from that laboratory, 

 A card index to all illustrations used in the Bureau of Entomology and the former 

 Division of Entomology, is maintained by the Bureau at Washington. It also in- 

 cludes the reports of the U. S. Entomological Commission and the later entomological 

 papers of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. A general card index of all ento- 

 mological publications issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture is now being 

 prepared. 



A new project relating to the control of the house-fly and other insects in estab- 

 lishments operating under the meat inspection act has been approved by the Secre- 

 tary. This is a joint investigation between the Bureau of Entomology and the Bureau 

 of Animal Industr3\ The headquarters for the work will be at the Dallas laboratory 

 and F. C. Bishopp will be in direct charge. A conference was held at Washington 

 early in May at which the detailed plans for the investigation were discussed. 



Mr. Carrington B. Williams, Carnegie scholar, took a trip to the West Indies in 

 March and returned to Washington about April 8, with a very large collection of 

 Thysanoptera made on the trip. On his return he worked night and day with Mr. 

 J. D. Hood, of the U. S. Biological Survey, describing the new species for a joint 

 paper soon to be published. He visited Barbados, Trinidad, and Porto Rico and 

 saw some tropical economic entomology. He sailed for England on April 17. 



Mr. E. H. Siegler, Bureau of Entomology, formerly in charge of the laboratory at 

 Benton Harbor, ]Mich., in connection with the project of insecticide investigations, 

 has been placed in immediate charge of the laboratory at Grand Junction, Colo., 

 where, in cooperation with the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, he will 

 undertake a thoroughgoing investigation of the codling moth in the Grand Valley. 

 He will be assisted by Mr. E. R. Van Leeuwen. 



A hearing before the Federal Horticultural Board was held in Washington, D. C, 

 on May 6, in regard to extending the quarantine lines to include additional territory 

 now infested by the gypsy and brown-tail moths. Messrs. A. F. Burgess, L. H. 

 Worthley and D. M. Rogers of the Bureau of Entomologj^ located at Boston, Mass., 

 Professor W. C. O'Kane of New Hampshire, Irving W. Davis of Connecticut and 

 Harry B. Weiss of New Jersey were among those in attendance. 



The index of economic entomology, covering the hterature since 1905, is now 

 fairly under way. Two typists are engaged in assisting Mr. Nathan Banks in the 

 preparation of the manuscript, and a thu'd wiU soon be employed. More than one- 

 hah of the experiment station literature has been indexed, and work on the pubUca- 

 tions of the Bureau of Entomology is nearing completion. It is estimated that there 

 wUl be at least 25,000 entries. 



W. D. Hunter and G. B. Sudworth, of the Federal Horticultural Board, had a con- 

 ference at Pittsburgh, Pa., on April 14, with the designers of a machine which may 

 be adapted for the fumigation of bales of cotton. On April 20, a conference was held 

 with the department regarding the proposed action of the Federal Horticultural 

 Board, regarding the fumigation of all foreign cotton received in this country to 

 -destroy the immature stages of Gelechia gossypiella. Representatives of cotton 

 miUs from all parts of the country were present. 



In conjunction with the Southern Conference for Education and Industry, held at 

 Chattanooga, Tenn., April 27-30, there was a conference of southern beekeepers. 

 The meeting on the first day was devoted to a discussion of beekeeping for teachers 

 and others interested in the development of beekeeping in the South. The Tennessee 

 State Beekeepers' Association called a special meeting in connection with this con- 



