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Dr. A. P. Sturtevant, Apicultural Assistant in charge of Bee Disease Investi¬ 
gations, of the Bee Culture Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, has resigned 
to accept the position of Assistant Professor of Bacteriology at the New York 
Homeopathic Medical College, New York City. 
Mr. Martin H. Cassidy, instructor in beekeeping at the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College, Amherst, Mass., and Mr. S. H. White, one of his students, attended 
the Wisconsin Beekeeper’s Chautauqua and the dedication of the Miller Memorial 
Library at Madison, Wis., August 13-16. They made the trip by automobile, and 
returned via Medina, Ohio, visiting the apiaries and factory of the A. I. Root 
Company. 
The Miller Memorial Library of Beekeeping was dedicated and formally turned 
over to the University of Wisconsin on the morning of August 17. Mr. C. P. Dadant, 
chairman of the Committee made the presentation address. President E. A. Birge 
on behalf of the University, made the address of acceptance. Other addresses were 
made by Mr. E. R. Root, Dr. E. F. Phillips and Mr. B. F. Kindig of the Committee, 
and Mr. N. E. France. This occurred at one of the most important and best 
attended beekeepers’ conferences ever held. About one thousand volumes are 
already in the library and an endowment for it is being created by beekeepers who 
have profited by the teachings of Doctor Miller. Books and magazines are being 
contributed to the library by European and American beekeepers. 
The members of the Maryland State Beekeeper’s Association visited the Bee 
. Culture Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C., on July 28- 
Rain prevented any outdoor demonstrations, but a goodly sized crowd gathered to 
hear the program given by the laboratory staff. The following papers were pre¬ 
sented: “Hourly Weight Changes of a Scale Colony” by J. I. Hambleton; “Studies 
of a Colony in an Observation Hive” by Bruce Lineburg; “American Foul Brood” 
by A. P. Sturtevant; “Language of the Bees” by Archie Shaftesbury; “A Brood- 
Rearing Curve” by W. J. Nolan; “Moulting of Larvae” by L. M. Bertholf; “Color 
of Honey” by Bernard Kurrelmeyer. 
Notes on Medical Entomology 
The City of Fredericton, N. B., has been carrying on a mosquito control 
campaign under the direction of Dr. J. D. Tothill. The spring floods left an unusual 
number of breeding pools in the Fredericton district and very satisfactory results 
were obtained through oiling. 
Dr. L. O. Howard has recently published an article entitled “A Fifty-Year 
Sketch-History of Medical Entomology” in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian 
Institution for 1921, pages 565-586,10 plates. The plates are portraits of Sir Patrick 
Manson, Sir Ronald Ross and Doctors A. Laveran, G. B. Grassi, A. Celli, Carlos J. 
Finlay, Walter Reed, J. C. Carroll, J. W. Lazear, and Howard T. Ricketts. 
