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Bennett and Mr. Peters, the State Livestock Sanitary Commission by Mr. Boog- 
Scott and Mr. Raseo, and the Bureau of Entomology by Messrs. Laake and Babcock. 
According to Dr. F. C. Bishopp, on June 23 five cases of dengue fever had been 
reported to the health department in Dallas, Texas. The first of these occurred 
about the middle of the month. A number of cases of dengue have also been reported 
from Denton, Texas. Yellow fever mosquitoes are already fairly numerous and 
it is possible that the disease may again assume epidemic form. 
After spending several months in Baltimore, Dr. W. V. King of the Bureau of 
Entomology has returned to Mound, La., and resumed active charge of the Malaria 
Mosquito Laboratory at that place. While in Baltimore, Dr. King cooperated with 
Johns Hopkins University, working up a vast number of statistical data relating to 
notes on malaria mosquitoes collected at Mound. 
According to Science, Dr. George E. Beyer, Entomologist of the State Board of 
Health, New Orleans, La., formerly adjunct professor in biology, Tulane University 
School of Medicine, has been requested to aid in stamping out malaria in San 
Domingo, and has been granted a leave of absence for that purpose. 
Pacific Slope Notes 
Mr. H. E. Burke, Bureau of Entomology, completed the requirements for the 
Ph.D. degree at Leland Stanford Junior University in June. Mr. Burke’s major is 
entomology, with work on the Pacific flathead borer, and his minor is physiology, 
with work on The Taxic Responses of the Lead-Cable Borer. 
Mr. R. E. Campbell, Bureau of Entomology, reports successful results in the 
control of the pea aphis on cannery peas in southern California, as the result of ex¬ 
tensive experiments undertaken in the vicinity of San Jose, The experiments in¬ 
dicate that sufficiently inexpensive control measures will be worked out in the near 
future. 
Prof. H. J. Quayle, professor of entomology in the Citrus Experiment Station and 
Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture of the University of California, has been 
granted a period of sabbatical leave for six to twelve months, during which time he 
will visit Australia to study fumigation problems, assist growers in fumigation 
methods, and conduct trials of materials in continuation of experiments begun in 
California, thus securing data in advance of the next fumigating season in California. 
Adult dried fruit beetles, Carpophilus hemipterus Linn., have been found by G. H. 
Vansell feeding on freshly cut Cheddar cheese in the storage room of the Creamery at 
the University Farm, Davis, California. It is supposed that the beetles flew in at 
the unscreened open ventilators which are only a few feet from a row of fig trees. 
The dried fruit beetle is frequently found on the partially dried fig in California and in 
the absence of fruit during the spring months they have apparently turned to the 
cheese for food. 
On June 2, the Department of Entomology of the University of California and the 
staff of the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences gave at the Hotel Stewart, 
San Francisco, a complimentary dinner to Professor and Mrs. T. D. A. Cockerell, 
who were passing through San Francisco on their way to Siberia in quest of fossil 
insects. Thirty-six were at the table, including many of the biological workers of 
