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Fanning, which is a typical coral atoll and presents a fertile field for the biologist- 
Extensive collections of both plants and animals were made for later studies and 
deposit in the interested museums of the University of California. This material is 
expected to arrive in San Francisco on the Motor Schooner Doris Crane about the 
middle of October. 
Horticultural Inspection Notes 
The Federal Horticultural Board has authorized the inspection and sealing of hold 
baggage at Honolulu for passengers traveling from Hawaii to Pacific Coast ports. 
This service is proving popular with the traveling public, transportation companies, 
and inspectors at ports of entry. It decreases to some extent the inconvenience to 
passengers during the rush of landing, shortens the time steamers are held in quaran¬ 
tine, and enables inspectors to inspect more thoroughly stateroom and other unsealed 
baggage. 
Mr. H. F. Willard, in charge of the Bureau’s laboratory at Honolulu, Hawaii, 
writes as follows: “Theo. L. Bissell, who has been employed at the Bureau’s station 
at Honolulu as Plant Quarantine Inspector since January, 1921, has been granted a 
two-year furlough without pay to enable him to do postgraduate work in entomology 
at Cornell University. Alfred Lutken, a graduate of Mississippi Agricultural College, 
has been appointed to take Mr. Bissell’s place and is now associated with Mr. Wil¬ 
lard.” 
Notes on Medical Entomology 
Mr. W. E. Dove, of the Dallas, Texas, Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, 
went to Jacksonville, Fla., July 21, to investigate the horse-flies in that State. Inci¬ 
dental to this investigation he is taking up a very interesting piece of work in collab¬ 
oration with Dr. Kirby Smith of Jacksonville, on a little-known form of dermal myia¬ 
sis which is present throughout the South. This malady is especially serious in parts 
of Florida. 
Dr. H. G. Dyar of the U. S. National Museum returned July 29 from a three 
months’ trip to the Pacific Coast, where he went in search of the larval stages of two 
mosquitoes, Aedes aloponotum and Aedes ventrovittis, which live in the high mountain 
regions. Dr. Dyar was successful in getting a large number of larvae of aloponotum , 
but did not find that stage of ventrovittis , although he found many adults. While in 
the West he visited Bakersfield, Calif., where mosquito work is being carried on by 
Major Charles K. Badger. 
