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Before Dr. and Mrs. Phillips left the village of Somerset, a suburb of Washington, 
the people of the town tendered them a farewell reception at which practically every 
resident was in attendance. Mrs. Phillips and the boys left for Ithaca, N. Y., on 
August 27, and Doctor Phillips will take up his new duties in Cornell University 
shortly before October 1. 
Mr. E. W. Tschudi has left the Bee Culture Laboratory to return to his work at 
the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bruce Lineburg has resigned to accept the pro¬ 
fessorship in biology at Lake Forest College, and L. M. Bertholf will soon leave to 
attend the Johns Hopkins University. Carlton Burnside will attend the graduate 
school of the University of Michigan this coming winter. 
Mr. Ph. J. Baldensperger, delegate from France to the International Congress at 
Quebec, will shortly visit various points of interest in beekeeping in the United States. 
Communications to him may be addressed to the Bee Culture Laboratory of the 
Bureau of Entomology. Mr. Baldensperger has spent many years in Palestine and 
other eastern countries and is an authority on eastern races of bees. 
The VII International Apicultural Congress was held in Quebec September 1 to 4. 
Delegates were present from France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Peru, as well as 
from various states of the United States and provinces of Canada. English and 
French sections were held separately and all papers presented were given at both 
sections. The proceedings will later be published in both languages. It was decided 
to leave the arrangement for the time and place of the next Congress to the permanent 
committee of the Congress and to make an effort to enlist the support of beekeepers 
from other countries in future Congresses. Following the sessions, excursions were 
given to various points of interest in Canada. 
Mr. James I. ITambleton has been appointed Apiculturist of the Bureau of Ento¬ 
mology, to succeed Dr. E. F. Phillips who has resigned to accept the position of Pro¬ 
fessor of Beekeeping at Cornell University, October 1. Mr. Hambleton is a graduate 
of the Ohio State University, where he specialized in entomology and beekeeping. 
He was in four major offensives in the World War, serving through the grades from 
private in the hospital corps to first lieutenant in the infantry. He took a course in 
beekeeping at the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, after the signing of the armistice. 
He was instructor in beekeeping at the University of Wisconsin, both before and 
after serving in the army, and was appointed apicultural assistant in the Bureau of 
Entomology in 1921. He is both a practical beekeeper and a trained scientist. 
At the annual summer meeting of the beekeepers of Wisconsin held this year at 
Fond du Lac, August 12 to 14, the beekeepers presented beautiful silver coffee services 
to Dr. E. F. Phillips of the Bureau of Entomology, and to Mr. George S Demuth, 
Editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture , in appreciation of their services to Wisconsin 
beekeeping while they were working together in the Bureau. Mr. Demuth left the 
Bureau some time ago but has since then attended al 1 the summer chautauquas ar¬ 
ranged by the University of Wisconsin. The resignation of Doctor Phillips from the 
Bureau of Entomology presumably marks the close of the team work of these two 
men, and for that reason the beekeepers took the occasion to express their thanks in 
this manner. A silver vase was presented to Prof. H. F. Wilson of the University on 
the same occasion, in recognition of his labors for the advancement of beekeeping in 
the State. 
