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the States represented. This is the second conference of its kind held, and 
it was voted to continue such meetings in the future for the interesting and 
profitable discussion of common problems. 
Neale F, Howard has been visiting Washington for a conference with 
“egard to the control of the Mexican bean beetle in the Southeastern 
States. He will return to his station at Birmingham, Ala., at the end of 
the month. 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E,. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
A conference was held at the Nev National Museum Building, washington, 
D. C., on March le for a consideration of the regulations for which pro- 
Vision is made in the lav passed last August for the regulation of importa- 
tions of honeybees, Several prominent beekeepers vere in attandance, At 
the conference a suggested set of regulations ‘vere submitted as desirable. 
BE, F, Phillips will deliver one of the Ludwick Lectures of the 
shiladelphia Academy of Natural Sciences on the evening of April e, on 
"Bees and Beekeeping," to be illustrated vith the tvo motion-picture reels 
made by the department, 
‘ A, BE. Lundie, a PaaS ee student of Cornell, from the Union of 
South Africa, who has spent most of the last eighteen months at the 
eCulture Laboratory, has returned to Cornell to present himself for 
xxamination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He prepared his 
thesis while in Washington, 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
Dr. H. L. Dozier, in charge of the camphor scale project at New 
leans, La., has resigned from the bureau to accept a position with the 
Nf Coast Citrus Exchange, Mobile, Ala. Dr. Dozier will be succeeded 
r Harold K, Plank. 
. 0, I. Snapp, in charge of peach insect investigations at Fort Valley, 
9 states that the first adult plum curculio of the 1923 season was 
ke n while jarring peach trees on the morning of March 5, near Fort Valley. 
beetles are late in appearing from hibernation this year on account 
ithe cool weather delaying the blooming of the trees. Ctavlers of the 

