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TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
Se As Oe? Entoxologist, in Charge. 
Dr. Francis M. Root, of enn apes School of Hygiene, recently 
visited the Division of Insects for. consultation relating to work on 
mosquitoes. 
Dr. John Harper, of the United States Naval Academy, eee con- 
Britea with- specialists in the Division of Insects. He is particularly 
interested in mosquitoes. ae 
| err D. Sherman, Jr. publisher, of Mt. Vernon; N. Y., Becher . 
- ‘spent a week in Washington, frequently visiting the Division of Insects.. 
Mr. Sherman is very mich ‘interested in all the branches of entomology. 
“Mrs. i. W. Rorer, of Ecuador, who has contributed many interesting 
South American specimens to the collection, recently called at the Division 
of Insects for a short time ahd consulted with Dr. Scheaus and other 
lepidopterists. 
aos We) « Holland, formerly Director of the Carnegie Museum, was a 
Recent visitor to the Division. of Insects. 
mr. He Mi Loomis, of: the National Canning Association, recently 
visited the Division of Insects to have assistance. in identifying some 
cockroaches which were “ae in canned pineapple from Hawaii. 
At the last nearest the Entomological Society Dr. Boving gave 
an interesting paper on the condition of the entomological collections 
in the mseum at Copenhagen, Denmark. 
Dr. Joseph Bequaert, of the freee Medical School, Bere iene spent 
about a week in the Division of Insects, studying various Diptera, espec= 
ially horse-flies and certain groups of social Hymenoptera. 
Dr. H. B. Johnston, of the Wellcome Laboratories, Khartoum, Sudan, 
recently visited the Miseum for a consultation with members of the 
entomological staff regarding parasites of cotton insects and other insect 
pests of Africa. Dr. Johnston intends to spend several weeks in the United 
States, visiting different entomo logical, laboratories of the Department of 
' Agriculture for the purpose of studying methods of propagating parasitic in- 
sects. It is his intention to attend the meetings of the American Asso- 
Ciation for the Advancement of Science to be held in Kansas City. 
Dr. Stepan Soudek, assistant, Zoological Institut of the College of 
Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a recent visitor to the 
Museum. On Noveriber 19 he was the guest of a party of entomologists con- 
Peetine of Dr. 7. BH. Snyder, Dr. J, M. Aldrich, Dr. A. Boving, Dr. B. HE, 
Ewing, R. A. Cushman, H. S$. Barber, W. S. Fisher, C. 7. Greene, and R. C. 
Shannon, at Plummers Island, Md., the Field Club of Washington Biologists. 
Dr. Soudek' took great interest in all the phases of nature and asked many 
questions, most af which could be answered readily by one or another member 
of the party. 
