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The following were among the visitors at the office or laboratory in September and 
October: Dr. C. L. Marlatt and family, of Washington, D. C., Professor W. C. 0! Kane, of New 
Hampshire, Professor R. A. Cooley, of Montana, H. C. Hallock and H. A. Jaynes, of the Jap— 
anese Beetle laboratory at Riverton, N. J., M. E. Ryberg, of the Bureau of Entomology, sta— 
tioned at the Boyce-Thompson Institute, Yonkers, N. Y., C. H. Batchelder, of the European 
Corn Borer laboratory, Arlington, Mass., and C. F. Doucette, of the Puyallup, Wash., field 
laboratory of the Division of Tropical and Subtropical Plant Insect rates eget Mr. 
Doucette had just returned from his trip to Europe. 
TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
S. A. Rohwer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
George M. Greene, of Harrisburg, Pa., has donated his valuable collection of insects 
to the National Museum. Mr. Greene began collecting in 1893, specializing in the Coleop-— 
tera. His collection contains about 48,000 specimens, 42,000 being Coleoptera, all well 
mounted, labeled, and determined. H. S. Barber and C. T. Greene went to Philadelphia on 
October 28 and brought the collection to Washington by automobile. 
J. C. Crawford, of the North Carolina State Department of Agriculture, stationed at 
Black Mountain, N. C., arrived in Washington October 31 and will spend about ten days here 
comparing material in the collection of bees. He will then go to Philadelphia and spend 
some time in the Academy of Sciences, 
R. C. Williams, jr., of Philadelphia, and Ernest Bell, of Flushing, N. Y., worked 
With Dr. Schaus on the collection of Hesperiidae for several days about the middle of 
October, 
Dr. sochaus went to New York City October 27 for a three days’ visit; 
and brought back with him a very beautiful lot of moths which were given to the National 
Museum by Mr. Frank Johnson, of that city. 
Dr. H. G. Dyar went to New York October 22, and while there examined some types of 
Limacodidae in the American Museum of Natural History. 
Mrs. Doris H. Blake returned to Washington October 10, after spending the summer 
working in the California Academy of Sciences and in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Cambridge, and in collecting in California, Arizona, and Wyoming. She is now working up 
the collected material with the aid of the Coleoptera collections in the National Museun. 
R. A. Cushman left Washington October 2 for the Philippine Islands, where he will 
pack and ship the C. F. Baker collection of insects which was bequeathed to the U. S. Nation- 
al Museum. Word was received from him in Seattle that his preparations were completed and 
that he was ready to sail for Manila on October ll. 
