oon. 
in the latter part of April J. C, Hamlin, of the Dried Fruit Lat 
Oratory, addressed the Students! agricultural Club of Fresno State College 
on the subject, "Biological Control of Noxious Plants through the agency 
of Insects," and recounted experiences incidental to this work in Mexico, 
Australia, and the United States, 
On lay 3 J. C, Hamlin was asked to act as consulting entomologist 
at a meeting of California packers of dried fruits, called to consider 
the present very heavy infestation of figs, The work of several species of 
insects was fully discussed, and Mr, Hamlin made recommendations for pre- 
venting similar loss in the future by certain variations of practice in the 
packing plants, } 
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A ‘Dried #ruit Coordinating Committee" was recently formed, spon- 
sored by the Dried Fruit Association of California and the University of 
California, J, C, Hamlin, in charge of the Bureau's dried fruit insect in- 
vestigations at Fresno, has been asked tc serve as a member of the subcom 
mittee on entomological problems, 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGaTIONS 
James I, Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
Prof, Ly M, Bertholf, of Western Maryland College, visited the Bee 
Culture Laboratory on May 2, end discussed plans. preparatory to continuing 
during the summer his investigations on the light responses of the honeybee, 
Members of the Pan American Conference on Standardization, meeting 
in the third Pan american Commercial Conference, visited on May 10 the ex- 
hibit and demonstration of the United States Standard Grades for honey, pre= 
Pared by the Division of Bee Culture Investigations of the Bureau of Ento- 
mology, This work was shown in connection with the exhibit of the Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics in the new Standardization Building. Considerable 
interest was manifested in this exnibit as a means of facilitating export and _ 
import trade in honey, and as a basis for international standardization, as 
the standard honey graders used in this work are now located in Berlin and 
London, as well as in the export ports of the United States, and are also in 
use in New Zealand, 
Recent visitors to the Bee Culture laboratory included W, Herrod~ 
Hempsall, Technical Advisor in Beekeeping, British Ministry of Agriculture; 
‘Prof, Dr, Hans Nachtsheim, of Germany; Dr. L. J. Cole, Secretary of the 
National Research Council; Prof, wu. F, Fhilljps, of Corneli University; and 
Dr, Ss B, Fracker, of Madison, wis, 
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Miss Catherine Lucas, of Ingland, has completed her investigation at 
the Bee Culture Laboratory, conducted in connection with her study of the 
amoebae of insects. 
