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should be made to the superintendent of the Apiary Department, Professor F. B. 
Paddock, Ames, Iowa. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips and Jas. I. Hambleton attended the meeting of the Maryland 
Beekeepers’ Association at College Park, Maryland, on May 31, and will attend the 
annual summer meeting of Wisconsin beekeepers held by the University of Wisconsin, 
to be held at Fond du Lac, August 12-14 inclusive. 
The Maryland Beekeepers’ Association paid its annual visit to the Bee Culture 
Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology on the afternoon of July 12, at which time 
the various members of the staff discussed their respective lines of work. About 60 
members of the association were in attendance. 
Dr. A. P. Sturtevant of the Bureau of Entomology went to Wyoming and southern 
Montana in June to study an outbreak of sacbrood. This disease appears to occur 
more abundantly in this region than in most other parts of the country. Dr. Sturte¬ 
vant was accompanied on most of the trip by Prof. C. L. Corkins of the University 
of Wyoming. 
All co-operative extension work in apiculture has been discontinued by the Bureau 
of Entomology. R. B. Willson will continue his work in New York under the ad¬ 
ministration of Cornell University, and Mr. C. L. Sams who has been doing similar 
co-operative work in North Carolina, will also be continued without support from the 
Bureau. The co-operative work in Wisconsin was discontinued July 1. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips, who has been in charge of the beekeeping work of the Bureau 
of Entomology for the past nineteen years, will resign from the Bureau October 1 
to become Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology, Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. Gleanings in Bee Culture for July gives a summary of the work done in the 
laboratory under the direction of Dr. Phillips. It is expected that announcement of 
the appointment of a new Apiculturist will be made in the near future. 
The final program of the VII International Apicultural Congress to be held in 
Quebec September 1-4 has recently appeared. The sessions of the days indicated 
will be devoted to the discussion of papers on beekeeping subjects. Following this 
part of the Congress a series of excursions has been planned to continue until Sep¬ 
tember 10, including a week-end excursion to the Saguenay River by boat from Que¬ 
bec and closing at Montreal. Details of the program may be obtained from M. Cyrille 
Vaillancourt, local secretary, Ministere d’Agriculture, Quebec. All papers will be 
presented in both French and English at separate sessions. 
Notes on Medical Entomology 
The March issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine (Vol. IV, No. 2) 
contains an article by Geo. H. Bradley of the Mound, La., laboratory of the Bureau 
of Entomology, entitled “The Natural Breeding Places of Anopheles Mosquitoes in 
the Vicinity of Mound, Louisiana.” 
On May 5, Mr. R. C. Shannon, at the request of James Ricker and with the 
permission of the Bureau of Entomology, went to Poland Springs, Me., where he 
spent ten days investigating the mosquito situation of the Poland Springs estate. 
The North Woods Aedes species were found to be very abundant in the temporary 
pools and small ponds about the place. Control measures were immediately started. 
Investigations of other insects were made at the same time. On his way back, Mr. 
Shannon stopped off to see the collections of Diptera at Cambridge and Boston. 
