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of cases, and the amount of material represented in various groups, and also was glad 
of the opportunity to become acquainted with various workers in the Division. 
Prof. H. A. Gossard of the Ohio Station was an invited guest at a luncheon of the 
Ohio Botanic Garden Society, given at the Queen City Club, Cincinnati, December 
28. This luncheon was projected as an initial step toward establishing at Cincinnati 
a Botanic Garden which is expected eventually to equal any in America. An 
address was given by Dr. C. S. Gager, Director of the Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, 
New York. 
Mr. Roger B. Friend, a graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College, class of 
1923, who has been employed by the New York Conservation Commissioner, under 
Dr. E. P. Felt, Albany, on gipsy moth work since graduation, has been appointed 
Assistant in Entomology at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New 
Haven. At first Mr. Friend will serve on a part time basis while working for a doc¬ 
tor’s degree in Yale University. 
Mr. E. G. Smyth of the Bureau of Entomology has just returned to Washington 
from Mexico and Guatemala, where he was engaged in collecting and shipping para¬ 
sites of the Mexican bean beetle. Though Mr. Smyth did not discover any new 
parasites of this insect, he collected near Mexico City large numbers of a tachinid. 
Some of the parasites were sent to the Western Station in New Mexico for hiberna¬ 
tion, but most of them were shipped to Birmingham, Ala. 
Mr. Walter W. Froggatt having reached the age limit of 65, retired on June 13, 
1923, as Government Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture of New South 
Wales, Australia, but has accumulated a long leave that will keep him in the service 
until June 18, 1924, when he will retire on pension. He has recently been appointed 
special forest entomologist under the Australian Forestry Commission to investigate 
the lumber borers of Australia, a matter now assuming much prominence with 
lumber merchants, architects and builders. 
Dr. M. W. Blackman of the New York State College of Forestry, recently 
spent several days in Washington conferring with officials of the Division of Forest 
Insects and examining types of Scolytidae. It was agreed that closer understanding 
of the respective forest insect investigations conducted by the New York State College 
of Forestry and the Division of Forest Insects of the Bureau of Entomology would 
be of benefit to both institutions. Dr. Blackman has undertaken to assist the 
Division of Forest Insects in the determination of Scolytidae. 
The collection of exotic coleopterous larvae in the U. S. National Museum has re¬ 
cently been rearranged and -labelled in conformity with the Heyden, Reitter, and 
Weise catalogues of Coleoptera. The bulk of this exotic material comes from 
Europe. The collection occupies 1,185 vials, and the rearrangement has taken about 
six months. The work has been done by Mrs. Nellie McConnell under the direction 
of Dr. Boving. Dr. Boving has recently received as a loan for comparison with 
North American forms four elaterid larvae from Denmark, and he and Mr. Hyslop 
are continuing their work on the arrangement and classification of the elaterid larvae 
in the collection. 
During November, 1923, Mr. J. C. Hamlin, in charge of the scientific work of the 
Australian Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board, conducted an expedition into Mexico 
in search of important insect enemies of cactus. The party included Mr. E. Morten- 
sen, Assistant Entomologist, Airs. Hamlin, and Aliss Alarie MacKinnon, daughter 
