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the past winter, spent the last week in March at Wooster in preparation for the 
summer’s work. He and Mrs. Neiswander have joined the Hubers at Oak Harbor, 
where he will assist with field studies of the corn borer. 
Mr. O. G. Babcock of the Bureau of Entomology left by automobile'from his field 
station at Sonora, Tex., on April 17 for Carlsbad, N. Mex., where he will spend 
several days working with Mr. Vernon Bailey on an insect survey of the Carlsbad 
Cave. This is one of the largest caves in the world and will probably yield some 
interesting insect material. 
Mr. Carl Heinrich of the U. S. National Museum left Washington early in March 
for a month’s trip to study types of Microlepidoptera and to consult various special¬ 
ists. He planned to visit the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, the National Museum of Canada, and the collections of Dr. 
Wm. Barnes, Decatur, Ill., and Aliss Annette F. Braun, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
The 1 collections of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera made by the late Thomas G. 
Bishop, of Dalmore, Helensburg, have been given by his son, Mr. A. Henderson 
Bishop, to the University of Glasgow for its new Zoological Museum. This col¬ 
lection is contained in 18 cabinets enclosing 700 separate boxes, and numbers some 
thirty or forty thousand specimens, all beautifully mounted, labeled, systematically 
arranged and in perfect condition. 
Dr. E. A. Back of the Bureau of Entomology read a paper on the effect of cold 
storage on insects before the 13th Annual Convention of the American Association 
of Ice and Refrigeration at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., in the latter 
part of March. Dr. Back went to New York April 8 to inform himself regarding 
development of certain so-called mothproofing treatments now being advertised 
rather extensively. 
The Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum, has received for study a third 
shipment of types of American muscoid flies loaned by the Zoological Museum in 
Vienna, Austria. This material is a part of that which was the basis of Brauer and 
Bergenstamm’s large -work published some 30 years ago. The classification of the 
material in the National Museum will be very much improved by the study of these 
types. 
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Mr. A. E. Miller, w r ho had been pursuing studies of Ohio mites at the National 
Museum, Washington, D. C., during the winter, has returned to the Field Laboratory 
at Chillicothe. He was at Wooster the last week in March for laboratory equipment. 
One of his major projects this year will be with the Mexican bean beetle. He de¬ 
termined while at Washington that he has many new species of mites in his Ohio 
collection. 
Dr. Herbert Osborn, Research Professor, Ohio State University, delivered a series 
of four lectures in the University of Illinois, April 9 to 11 on the following subjects: 
(a) The Relation of Insects to Their Environment; (b) Entomological Explorations; 
(c) Opportunities and Qualifications for Entomological Work, and (d) Entomological 
Pioneers. On the evening of April 10, a dinner was given in his honor at which about 
35 students and faculty members were present. 
According to Science , Dr. W. M. Wheeler of the Bussey Institution, of Harvard 
University, was the guest of the Zoologists of Indiana University from December 10 
to 12. He lectured before the chapter of Sigma Xi on “Bergson’s Attitude Toward 
