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continue his trip into Central America and northern South America, but owing 
to the revolution he was unable to cortinue his journey southward and had to 
return to the United States, He leaves February 6 for Sante Maria, Colombia, 
end from there vill visit Panama and certain of the Central American states, 
Messrs, veynes and Gardner of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, Riverton, 
Ne dey Snent some time in the Museum stuCying the collections of Scolia and 
Tiphia, ‘these men exoect to go to Japan next month to carry on the studies 
of the introduction of parasites against the Japanese beetle. 
R. E. Tarbett, Sanitary Inspestor of Southern Texas, spent a short time 
at the Section of Insects consulting with Doctor Dyar and: studying mosquitoes 
A, E. Miller, of the Chio Agriculturel Experiment Station, is spending 
several weeks in the Section of Insects working with Doctor Ewing on mites, 
Mr. Miller is preparing a thesis to be submitted for the degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy in Ohio State University, and is making use of the material in 
the collection and obtaining records to assist him in identifying material 
he has already collected, 
Dr. Andrew Balfour, formerly Director of the Wellconie Research Laboratory, 
Khartum, Anglo-Egyntian Sudan, who worked for many years on medical entomology, 
especially sleeping sickness, and Col. F. Fe Russell, General Director of the 
International Health Board of the Societe ler Foundation, New York, visited 
the Museum recently. Doctor Howard brought them over to look at the collections, 
M. C. Van Duzee, of Buffalo, N. Y., spent. four days in the Section of 
Insects working with Doctor Aldrich on Diptera. Mr. Van Duzee is preparing 
another paper on certain flies of the family Dolichopodidae. 
Prof. J. B. Parker, of the Catholic University, is continuing his study 
on wasps of the family Bembecidae. He has been spending one day a veek 
working on the material in the collection and is planning to publish a generic 
revision end descriptions of new species. 

PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY 
J. G Pratt, > leapt Photographer 
Those interested in ais aeenlikne insects will probably find helpful 
an article in the February number of "Nature Magazine" in which Mr. Pratt 
tells of the different methods used in preparing various kinds of insects 
for the cemera. 
