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MANUSCRIPT FOR PUBLICATION OUTSIDE OF THE DEPARTMENT. 

e present regulations require that a copy of every manuscript intended for 
ication outside of the Department be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for 
g in his office. It will save considerable work and time if Bureau agents who 
manuscripts for publication outside of the Department send in three copies, 
be filed in the office of the Assistant Secretary, one to be sent to the pub~ 
}, and the third to be filed in the Bureau of Entomology. 
DOCTOR HOWARD VISITS SOUTHERN FIELD STATIONS. 
During the early part of March Doctor Howard will visit the field stations 
dat Orlando and Gainesville, Fla., Thomasville, Ga., and Columbia, 8. C. 
PROMPT MONTHLY REPORTS WANTED. 
fe Dy 4s frequently necessary to write letters +o agents to request monthly re- 
hich are not received on time. All agents are urged to obviate this incon- 
ace by submitting their monthly reports promptly on the last day of each month. 
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WINTER ACTIVITY OF THE HOUSE FLY: DATA WANTED. 
How the house fly passes the winter is a question which has never been settled. 
orate experiments are under way near Washington which will throw much light on 
; subject, but I desire to obtain additional information from the field agents of 
seau throughout the country. All of the agents are requested to make such 
$ as they can on the winter activity of the house fly during the next two months, 
to send them to me by the first of May. If adult flies are observed at any time 
ing cold winter weather an effort should be made to determine whether they have 
cged from the puparia recently cr have passed the time since the fall in the 
lt stage. Specimens should be preserved and submitted for final determination. 
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NEWS OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST IN AFRICA. 
ae: letter written by A.W.J.-Pomeroy from Kamerun, West Africa, on November 7, 
15, reached Washington on March 2. Mr. Pomeroy is now a lieutenant in the West 
n Frontier Force. He has been ill with some tropical fever but at the time 
riting was on active duty. 
