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the National Collection, but retained the families Elmidae and Parnidae for a study 
which his illness made impossible. While on a visit to friends at the Musuem he 
told of the material he had collected during his military service along the Mexican 
Border and in France and of its bequest to the National Museum by a provision of 
his will, but having no entomological friends in Richmond who could understand 
his interests, only seven boxes, probably comprising all of his pinned specimens, were 
preserved from the cleaning of his room during his long confinement at the hospital. 
J. Bowie Ferneyhough of Richmond has kindly sent these boxes to the National 
Museum for safe keeping pending the legal settlement, but manuscripts and notes 
were not found. The Richardson collection is chiefly valuable for the fine speci¬ 
mens of small beetles collected at Fredericksburg, Va., between 1891 and 1904. 
On November 28, 1923, Dr. T. E. Snyder of the Bureau of Entomology visited 
the Naval Aircraft Factory, U. S. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa., to outline coopera¬ 
tive experiments in steaming, in kiln, lumber infested with Lyctus powder-post 
beetles. Various temperatures from 120° to 180° F., are to be tested to determine 
fatal temperatures. R. A. St. George supervised these steaming tests from December 
11 to 14, at the Naval Aircraft Factory. Mr. St. George visited a wood-turning 
factory at Front Royal, Va., to determine the results of cooperative tests to prevent 
attack by wood-boring insects. Dr. Snyder inspected telephone poles in the vicinity 
of Norfolk, Va., December 15 and 16, to determine the distribution of and extent of 
damage by the northern Florida termite Kalotermes approximates Snyder. This 
nonsubterranean wood-boring termite has not yet become a pest in Virginia. Species 
of Kalotermes so extensively damage the tops of telephone poles as to necessitate 
impregnating the entire pole, cross arms, etc., with coal-tar creosote. Dr. Snyder 
left Washington on January 24 for Ancon, C. Z., Panama, where tests are to be con¬ 
tinued with wood preservatives to protect timber from attack by wood-boring insects, 
especially termites. By means of an agreement with Dr. Quaintance, Dr. Snyder will 
be greatly aided in this work through cooperation with J. Zetek. 
During the Annual Farm Products Show Week, there was an informal gathering 
of entomologists working within the State of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, Pa., on 
January 23, 1924. The meeting was held at the offices of the Pennsylvania Bureau of 
Plant Industry, and 25 entomologists were present, all excepting one—Professor 
P. J. Parrott of Geneva, N. Y.—being entomologists working within the State of 
Pennsylvania. There were represented among the gathering the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the Pennsylvania State 
Experiment Station, the Extension Service of the Pennsylvania State College, the 
Federal Bureau of Entomology, and several commercial concerns. All of the men 
gathered here were particularly interested in economic entomology, and included 
men who were primarily interested in the following phases: fruit insects, field crop 
insects, vegetable insects, nursery insects, greenhouse insects, apiary investigations, 
nursery inspection, extension in entomology, forest insects, entomological collections, 
and medical entomology. After the general meeting the gathering adjourned to a 
local restaurant for supper. After supper a short business meeting was held and it 
was agreed to form an organization, the name adopted being the “Entomological 
wSociety of Pennsylvania,” the membership to be open to any entomological worker in 
the State, not limited merely to professional workers. It was further agreed that 
there would be an Annual Round Up in Harrisburg at the time of the Annual Farm 
