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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 16 
GIPSY MOTH AND EUROPEAN CORN BORER CONFERENCE 
A conference at Albany November 16 to consider recent developments in the 
gipsy moth and European corn borer situations was called by Commissioner B. A. 
Pyrke of the Department of Farms and Markets of the State of New York, and in¬ 
vitations were sent to officials in all of the New England States, New Jersey, Penn¬ 
sylvania, Ohio and New York, the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and the Dominion 
of Canada. Entomologists present were Doctors E. D. Ball, Director of Scientific 
Work, U. S. Department of Agriculture, L. O. Howard, C. L. Marlatt, Messrs. W. R. 
Walton, A. F. Burgess, D. J. Caffrey, L. H. Worthley and H. L. McIntyre of the 
U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Mr. L. S. McLaine and Dr. J. M. Swaine, Entomological 
Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, Dr. T. J. Headlee, State Entomologist, 
New Brunswick, N. J., Mr. W. A. Osgood, Assistant Entomologist, Durham, N. FI., 
Dr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist, New Haven, Conn., Professor P. J. Parrott, 
Entomologist, Agr. Expt. Sta., Geneva, N. Y., Professor G. W. Herrick, Entomologist 
Cornell Agr. Expt. Sta., Ithaca, N. Y., Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist and Mr. 
D. B. Young, Assistant, Albany, N. Y., Dr. George G. Atwood, Director Bureau of 
Plant Industry, and Mr. B. D. Van Buren, Albany, N. Y. Dr. A. W. Gilbert, 
Commissioner of Agriculture, and Messrs. R. H. Allen, George A. Smith and C. O. 
Bailey, Boston, represented Massachusetts, Mr. Harold L. Bailey, Assistant Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture, Bradford, represented Vermont, and Mr. Sheals repre¬ 
sented Rhode Island. Conservation Commissioner C. R. Pettis, and Agricultural 
Commissioner B. A. Pyrke were also present, the latter acting as Chairman. 
The chief speakers on the gipsy moth were Dr. E. P. Felt and Mr. A. F. Burgess, 
followed by Messrs. Atwood, Smith, C. O. Bailey, H. L. Bailey, Osgood, Britton, 
Sheals, Headlee, McLaine, Pettis, Marlatt, Howard and Ball. Resolutions were 
formulated and duly adopted. The proceedings have been published by the New 
State Department of Farms and Markets as Bulletin 148 . 
In the afternoon the European corn borer was discussed, the principal speakers 
being Mr. W. R. Walton and D. J. Caffrey of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, 
followed by Dr. A. W. Gilbert, L. S. McLaine, Drs. L. O. Howard, C. L. Marlatt 
and E. D. Ball. Resolutions were also adopted, asking that the present control 
measures be continued. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips lectured before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 
Janurary 13 on “Bees and Beekeeping.” 
The annual meeting of the Maryland State Beekeepers’ Association was held in 
conjunction with the Farmers’ Conference at Frederick, Maryland, on January 10. 
The principal speakers were E. F. Phillips of the Bureau of Entomology and A. D. 
Shaftesbury of Johns Hopkins University. 
Contributions of books and journals for the Miller Memorial Beekeeping Library 
are being received from all parts of the world and the library already contains several 
very rare and valuable books. It is planned to dedicate the library some time during 
next August. 
E. P. Felt will give a lecture on:—“Engineering and Insect Control,” from the 
broadcasting Station of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 
“WHAZ,” wave length 360 meters between 8:15 and 9:30 P. M., Monday night, 
February 19th. 
