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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
WASHINGTON, ©. oc. 
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February 28, 1914. 












the Men of the Bureau of ersten y: 
Bithis is the first News Letter coulniee the activities of the 
le Bureau. Professor Webster’s experiment of a monthly News Let- 
BY the information of the men engaged in his section of our work, 
fod so interesting to the men and so helpful to them that it a 
fecided to adopt the idea for the entire entomological service. 
will be noticed that Professor Webster’s oot ton of this letter con- 
18 s some notes sent in by field workers concerning methods. I think 
i... is a good idea, When field men think that they have hit up- 
new method which will be of as sto Other field non in Oe. own 
~ branches of our work, I hope that they will send in a condens- 
. use in one of these News Letters. 
a) In my Be ea Tore visits to the field laboratories in different 

of the country, I have found that the men frequently chew 8 6k aa 
ing about what was going on at other stations and in other investi—- 
This monthly letter, which is now starting, I hope will 

t in a such more general knowledge of our work and will help to 
blish more firmly the esprit de co:ps which I am sure already exists 


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small degree among all the workers of the “Bureau. 

' L. O. Howard, 
Chief of Bureau. ae, | 
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