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BUREAU VIGITORS. DURING. AUGUST: 

August, 1916. 
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t. Wm. Morton Wheeler of the Bussey Institution has been spending some time 
hgton looking over the ants of the Pergande collection which has been 
to the National Museum by Miss Pergande. 
ie T. D. A. Cockerell has been working in the National Museum for a number 
onthe bees of the collection. 
F, Fiske arrived in Washington on August 10. He expects to spend about two 
n the country and then return to England. The Imperial Bureau of Entomology 
ates resuming the work on the bionomics of tsetse flies in Africa, immedi- 
\fter the war. 
ng the other Bureau visitors Dr. G. Okajaima, Professor of Entomology. at 
ima, Japan; Seymour Hadwen, Agassiz, British Columbia; W. G. Anching Kung, of 
ie China; Prof F. Roberts of India; H. G. Barber and Ernest BE. Scholl. 
STATH FORESTERS OF NEW ENGLAND IN CONVENTION, 
‘The Chief of the Bureau, together with A. F, Burgess and some of his colleagues, 
@ttend the conference to be held September ts at Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, 
State Foresters of New England, to consider the sposition of forest products 
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such woods as may be gone over with view of eliminating those species especially 
INSHOTS AS FOOD FOR MAN, 
“H. Gibson of the Charleston (Mo.) laboratory, has been experimenting with 
rva of Plathypena scabra as food. He file them and are them between 
Of bread and butter as sandwiches. his is the first time, I imagine, that 
white man has eaten green caterpillars. 
THE NATIONAL COMMITTER FOR THa STUDY OF MALARIA, 
“Dr. L. 0. Howard has been made chairman of the subcommittees of entomology on 
tional Committee for the Study of Malaria, and Dr. W. D. Hunter has been made 
ar of the subcommittes. : 
THE AGRICUL URAL APPROPRIATION BILL. 
ect on August ll carries a 
},980 over the amount appropri- 
ne the. fiscal year “1916. The increass is Ti suthute d over a number of lines 
ork, atong them the grape berry-moth, insects transmitting diseases of cucumbers, 
eco insects, clover insects in the Northwest, extension work in apiculture, and 
é@ stock pests in the West. Thirty-four clerical and subclerical positions through- 
es. F 
oe Bureau are placed on ths statutory roll, an nd relia i is made for the pay-~ 
ers and other employees injured while aiaaad:: in i oaue aie work in the preven- 
the spread of moths, This provision is similar to one applying to the 
rvice which has been in operation for esveral years. 
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