August, ’23] 
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the bay region of California. Dr. Barton W. Evermann acted as toastmaster, and 
all present joined in wishing their guests a pleasant voyage. 
The Modesto, Calif., Chamber of Commerce appointed a committee to interview 
the Board of Supervisors regarding the seriousness of the bean weevil situation in 
Stanislaus County. Following a conference with the Farm Center Directors, the 
Chamber of Commerce extended to A. O. Larson, of the Bean Weevil Investigations 
at Alhambra, an invitation to visit the county and discuss the bean weevil situation 
at different places, with the view to securing widespread interest in better control 
methods for this pest. Mr. Larson’s work has been highly commended by Lester F. 
Baker, Chairman of the Bean Weevil Committee of the Modesto Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, 
North Eastern Summer Field Meeting 
The summer field meeting of the entomologists of the north-eastern United States, 
was held in Connecticut July 26 and 27, the trips from one point to another being 
' made by automobile. The members gathered on the afternoon and evening of 
July 25, at New Haven where they spent the night,Hotel Taft being the headquarters. 
The next morning they visited the entomological department of the Agricultural 
Experiment Station, New Haven, the Station farm at Mount Carmel, West Rock 
Park, Yale bowl, Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, and the orchard of F. N. Platt, 
Milford, where spraying and dusting experiments are being conducted. From this 
point the party proceeded along the coast to the State Park at Hammonasset Beach, 
Madison. Following the luncheon, there was a base ball game (Worthley, umpire); 
some of the entomologists went bathing while others collected insects along the 
beach. Late in the afternoon, the party went northward passing Wesleyan Uni¬ 
versity at Middletown, stopping at the large greenhouse and nursery establishment 
of the A. N. Pierson Co., Cromwell, viewed the gigantic elm tree in Wethersfield, 
and then to Hartford, where at the Hotel Bond a dinner and evening meeting had 
been arranged. 
An interesting lecture on the Japanese beetle, illustrated by lantern slides, was 
given by Mr. Loren B. Smith of Riverton, N. J., in place Mr. C. H. Hadley, who 
could not be present. Friday morning the party drove through Keney Park to the 
tobacco sub-station at Windsor, and visited the forest experimental plots at Rainbow', 
returning via Elizabeth Park, to Hartford, where luncheon was served in the State 
Capitol. After luncheon the visitors were shown about the Capitol and the State 
Library, then drove via Rockville, to the Connecticut Agricultural College at Storrs. 
Here a demonstration of high-power spraying of woodland and orchard trees was 
given by the gipsy moth forces. After supper there w^as a base ball game between 
the Connecticut gipsy moth men and a team picked from the visitors (Burgess, 
umpire). In the evening motion pictures were shown in the armory, including those 
on the European corn borer, and the gipsy moth, prepared by the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. 
Officers elected for next year are; Chairman, H. E. Hodgkiss; Secretary, C. H. 
Hadley. The members expressed a desire to hold the next field meeting in the 
vicinity of Philadelphia in 1924. 
The following were present; H. A. Ames, Somerville, N. J.; J. T. Ashworth, 
Danielson, Conn.; E. A. Back, Washington, D. C.; D. N. Borodin, New York, N. Y. 
