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this work has been established at Cagnes, Alpes-maritimes, in southern France. 
Dr. Vincens has recently published two short papers in the Compies rendus of th< 
Paris Academy of Sciences on two fungi which appear to be pathogenic to adult bees 
At the annual convention of the American Honey Producers’ League, held in 
Chicago on January 24 and 25, Mr. B. F. Kindig, chief apiary inspector of Michigan, 
was elected president and Mr. Colin P. Campbell of Grand Rapids, Michigan, as 
vice-president. The executive committee re-appointed S. B. Fracker, Madison, 
Wisconsin, as secretary. 
Dr. M. C. Tanquary, Chief of the Division of Entomology, Texas Agricultural 
Experiment Station, and State Entomologist, has resigned, effective May 1, t( 
enter a commercial apiary business extending into several states. He has held this 
position in Texas for four years, preceding which he was Assistant Professor of En 
tomology at the Kansas Agricultural College and Assistant Entomologist of the 
Experiment Station. Dr. Tanquary is automatically succeded by H. J. Reinhard, 
who has been a member of the staff for more than eight years. 
In connection with Farmers’ Week at Ames, Iowa, a beekeeping short course was 
given under the direction of Professor F. B. Paddock. Outside speakers included 
G. H. Cale, of Hamilton, Illinois, who gave several talks on general beekeeping 
methods; S. B. Fracker, of Madison, Wisconsin, who spoke on marketing, on bee 
disease eradication, and on the work of the American Honey Producers’ League; 
and Professor Francis Jager, St. Paul, Minnesota, who discussed the subjects of 
queen rearing cellar wintering, and European beekeeping. 
Mr. Willis J. Nolan of the Bureau of Entomology returned January 31 from his 
European trip. While abroad he visited the newly established apicultural experiment- 
station of the Republic of Czecho-slovakia, located at Prague, and in charge of Dr. A. 
Schonfeld. The station is located in the suburbs of the city and occupies a large 
estate with excellent buildings. The work is just being begun and will include a 
study of the diseases of bees in that country. He also visited Vienna where he 
spoke before one of the beekeeping societies of the city and met a number of the 
prominent beekeepers. He also visited the Bakteriologische Anstalt at Liebefeld 
near Bern, Switzerland, where Dr. Robert Burri who worked on bee diseases some 
years ago is director. The bee disease work there is now in charge of Dr. Otto 
Morgenthaler. Mr. Nolan did not go into Germany as he had planned because of 
the disturbed economic conditions of that country. 
Federal cooperation with the states in an extensive American foulbrood eradication 
campaign on the area cleaup method will be asked of Congress by the American 
Honey Producers’ League, according to action taken at the annual convention. 
A steering committee, consisting of B. F. Kindig, chairman, S. B. Fracker and E. R. 
Root, and two others yet to be appointed, has been organized to sponsor the cam¬ 
paign and a large federal appropriation will be asked for the purpose. It is under¬ 
stood that the work will be done county by county and state by state in accordance 
with the successful area clean-up campaigns now in progress in several states, and that 
the areas freed from disease would be protected from the introduction of infected 
material by federal authority. The promise of the active support of the United 
States Department of Agriculture is assured, according to Dr. E. D. Ball, who has 
discussed the subject in several public addresses and personal conferences, and the 
project is also advocated by the Bee Culture office of the Bureau of Entomology. 
