February, ’23] 
PACIFIC SLOPE NOTES 
111 
The New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., has announced a short 
course in beekeeping to be held February 20-23. Instructors will be Dr. E. F. 
Phillips and George S. Demuth, assisted by George H. Rea, E. W. Atkins and R. B. 
Willson. 
Recent visitors at the Bee Culture Laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, were Dr. 
S. O. Mast, Johns Hopkins University; H. F. Wilson, University of Wisconsin; 
George H. Rea, Pennsyvlania State College; and Kenneth Hawkins, formerly an 
agent of the office, now with the G. B. Lewis Company, Watertown, Wis. 
Mr. George W. York, Spokane, Washington, who for 20 years was editor of the 
American Bee Journal, has donated his entire collection of bee books and other bee¬ 
keeping literature representing an accumulation of 40 years, to the University of 
California. The University in accepting this valuable gift has decided to establish 
the George W. York Library of Apiculture of California. 
Pacific Slope Notes 
Mr. G. A. Coleman, instructor in entomology at the University Farm, Davis, 
California, has resigned. 
Mr. A. J. Flebut of the Bureau of Entomology attended the 55th annual convention 
of farmers and fruit growers at Sacramento, California, the middle of December. 
The Entomological Field Station of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station has 
been moved from Twin Falls and Rexburg to Parma where experimental work will 
be conducted for a period of several years. 
Mr. Harold E. Woodworth, Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University 
of the Philippines is visiting his home in Berkeley on a brief leave of absence. He 
has been in the Philippines for three years associated with Professor C. F. Baker at 
Los Banos. 
Messrs. W. D. Whitcomb and E. J. Newcomer of the Bureau of Entomology were 
scheduled to attend the annual meeting of the Washington Horticulutral Associa¬ 
tion at Spokane, December 12-15. Mr. Newcomer was to discuss the control of the 
San Jose scale by the engine-oil emulsion. 
Prof. C. W. Woodworth who is in charge of the entomological work in the Kiangsu 
Province with headquarters in the National Southeastern University at Nanking, 
sailed from Hong Kong on December 25 on a trip to Japan, India, Palestine and 
Europe, where he expects to spend some time at the entomological museums. He 
will return to China by New York and San Francisco, expecting to arrive in New 
York on April 14. 
Dr. Edwin C. Van Dyke sailed for China on January 2, to spend his sabbatical 
year of 1923 in China and Japan. His headquarters will be the College of Agriculture, 
National Southeastern University, Nanking, China, and he will carry on some of the 
entomological work started by Professor C. W. Woodworth. Besides his instructional 
work, he hopes to make a general survey of entomological conditions in China, 
Corea and Japan insofar as his time will permit. 
