Oy ind 
L. B. Sanderson, formerly employed as Field Assistant in Insect 
Control, resigned from the service, effective June 30, 1924, because, of 
111 health. 
E. V. Walter, Assistant at the Tempe, Ariz., laboratory, visited 
eastern Arizona about the middle of August in a search for the southwestern 
corn borer. He visited all accessible points from Tempe eastward and north- 
ward as far as Winslow and Holbrook, Ariz., without finding any trace of 
the insect. 
Prof. Geo. A. Dean attended the meeting of the Northwest Internation- 
al Committee on Farm Pests, held at Bozeman, Mont., August 27 and <8. Prof. 
~ Dean also spent some time with Mr. Stewart Lockwood inspecting grasshopper 
and cricket infestations in Montana. 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS ti: 4 
E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist, in Charge 
H. F. Phillips and James I. Hambleton attended the Sixth Annual Wis- 
consin Beekeeping Chautauqua held this year at Fond du Lac, August 11 to 13, 
which was attended by some 400 beekeepers. In recognition of his assistance : 
during this and the five previous sessions, the Wisconsin State Beekeepers! l 
Association presented Dr. Phillips with a silver coffee service. George S. 
Demuth, formerly with the Bee-Culture Laboratory, but now editor of "Glean- 
ings in Bee Culture," was also presented with a similar silver set. 
W. J. Nolan will attend a meeting of the North Carolina State Bee- 
keepers! Association at Winston-Salem, September 10. 
N. E. Fhillips, of Erie, Pa., end J. J. Wilder, of Waycross, Ga., 
Editor of the Dixie Beekeeper, were recent callers at the Bee Culture Lab- 
oratory. Mr. Wilder is one of the most prominent beekeepers of the United 
States, owning and managing more than 10,000 colonies of bees. 
: Bruce Lineburg, who has been engaged in a study of the growth and 
feeding of the honeybee larva, has resigned his temoorary appointment to 
apes: a position as Instructor in Biology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, 
aL 
EH. W. Tschudi, who has been engaged in an investigation on color 
standards for honey, has resigned his position in the Bee Culture Laboratory, 
and is returning to his work at Johns Hopkins University. 


