MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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BEE CULTURE 
E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge ~ 









| Dr. H. F. Phillips left Washington July 14 for Texas, where he addressed a 
meeting of beekeepers during Farmers' Week. From Texas he went to Clemson College, 
b. C., to take part in Farmers' Week there. 
Geo. A. Hummer, recently special field agent in Mississippi, has resigned 
to take up commercial beekeeping again. R. B. Willson, formérly employed by the 
Office cf Bee-Culture Investigations, has been appointed to take Mr. Hummer's place. 
; H. A. Sculien, special field agent for Washington, Oregon, and northern 
Idaho, has been appointed under a cooperative project between the Office of Bee- 
Culture Investigations and the State of Washington. 
| A. P. Sturtevant, specialist in the bacteriology of bee diseases, recently 
returned from an extended trip to California where he conducted some needed work in 
disease investigation. 
4 From lack of funds, the following special field agents are now employed by 
their respective States and are not in cooperation with this office: A. T. Watson, 
Oklamoma; F. C. Davis, Louisiana; and W. A. Smith, Georgia. | 
a Geo. H. Rea, formerly employed in cooperation with Cornell University, has 
left his position with the United Film and Projector Company to take vp again the 
work in New Yprk State. 
Lloyd R. Watson, formerly special field agent and collaborator under coopers 
ative appointment with Storrs Agricultural College, has left Connecticut for work in 
the Washington office. 
TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
C. L. Marlatt, Entomologist in Charge 






| H. D. Young, formerly connected with the California citrus-fruit insect inves- 
tigation, was transferred, July i, to the Insecticide and Fungicide Board, Mr. Young 
while in the Bureau of Entomology assisted R. S&S. Woglum in field investigations of 
| liquid hydrocyanic acid. 
r Ernest L. Chambers, who has spent three years and a half in the University 
of Ohio, specializing in entomology, will assist in the investigation of insects in- 
festing ornamental tropical and subtropical plants in greenhouses, 
: The following papers have been presented for publication, by assistants in 
this division: "The Chrysanthemum Midge," by C. A. Weigel and H. L. Sanford, and 
"The Banana Root-Borer," by G. F. Moznette. — 
J Euwory G. Shanks, a student of the Technical High School of Washington, has 
been given a temporary appointment as laboratory helper. 
