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Index to cover Bureau ic Seat Nos. 101 to 173 inclusive, 
' to that issued on November 1911 (Circulars 1 to 100) is 
course of preparation and eri be issued in the future. 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS. 
EH. F. Phillips, In Charge. 
An inexpensive electric oven was recently purchased which is 
le of maintaining any temperature desired from slightly above 
“temperature to above boiling point, with a constancy of about 
begree Centigrade. This may be used as an incubator or paraffin 
ding oven. 
Seesme apparatus used in the investigation of bees in winter at the 
iversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, during the past two winters 
fm been moved and ig now installed in the laboratory at Drummond, Md. 
Smeil room has been fitted up as a "bee cellar” in the basement in 
fieh the temperature changes will be slow, the room being completely 
"rounded by planer shavings one foot thick. The wiring for the tem- 
ture readings is now being installed, thermo-couples being used 
this murpose. The special scales for taking hourly weighings of a 
ay of bees during winter have been installed in a room on the first 
peor of the laboratory and arranged to weigh a colony in the basement. 
©» Dr. FE. EF. Phillips will leave about the middle of November to at- 
Pat eee of various State beekeepers’ associations in Indianapolis, 
+ Ames, Towa, Springfield, [l1., and Madison, Wis, 
/Dr:. Jas. A. Nelson has completed his work on the development of 
honeybee in the egg ot which investigation he has been engaged for 
ee The paper will be published outside the Department. 
ihe National Beekeepers’ Association will meet in Denver, Colo., 
ais Burton N. Gates, formerly of this bureau, is now Assistant 
ofessor of Beekeeping at Amherst, Mass. He is president of the 
jational Beekeepers’ Association. 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. Le Quaintance, In Charge. 
Mr, ‘HE, J. Newcomer has arrived in Washington from the Wenatchee, 
-,; field station. ~ 
Te H. B. Scammell will spend the winter at his headquarters, 
iiberton, N. J., where he will make observations in connection with 
estigations of cranberry insects, giving special attention to ques- 
} connected with flooding of cranberry bogs, hibernation of cran- 
y insects, etc. 
“ne biological investigations in California of the grapes Phyllox- 
how eee pretty well completed, and Mr. W, M. Davidson will 
