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GENERAL NOTES 

Dr. Howard and Dr. Marlatt Attend 


Dr. L. 0. Howard was in Honolulu, Hawaii, from July 23 to August 16, 
where he inspected the work of the Bureau's station and acted as chairman 
of the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Conference, which was in session from 
July 31 to August 14. Distinguished scientists representing all the nations 
bordering on the Pacific ocean were in attendance, and many important prob- 
lems dealing with the production, conservation, and transportation of food 
were discussed. 
The entomologists from the mainland in attendance at the Conference, 
in addition to Doctor Howard and Doctor Marlatt, were Prof. T. D. A. Cockerelly 
Frof. Herbert Osborn, Dr. R. N. Chapmen,and Prof. W. B. Herms. Mr. Frederick 
Muir was absent, recuperating in northern California from a severe illness, 
but Messrs. 0. H. Swezey, D. T. Fullaway, BE. M. Ehrhorn, €. HE. Pemberton, | 
#. X. Williams, H. F. Willard, and A. B. Imtkin well represented the Hawaiian 
society. 
Before the Honolulu meeting, Doctor Howard visited Seattle, Portland, — 
Berkeley, San Francisco, Stanford University, Riverside, whittier, Los Angeles 
and Alhambra, visiting stations of the Bureau and interviewing State people 
concerning cooperative work. On his return from the Islands, he went to Port—" 
land and addressed the Chamber of Commerce on the subject of the work of the 
Conference and on the European earwig and the introduction of its Zuropean 
parasites which is being attempted at the present time. Two European tachin- 
ids, both of which are iniportant earwig parasites, are being sent over from 
the south of England and from the south of France. 




Dr. €. L. Marlatt and his family were in Honolulu during the latter 
part of July and the month of Susust, where he took a prominent part in the 
Pan-Paciric Food Conservation Conference, and investigated the methods of 
Federal plant quarantine enforcement in the Territory of Hewaii. 

items from the National Museum contributed by S$. A. Rohwer . 
Dr. J. M. Aldrich, of the National imseum, has recently returned from 
& two months! trip in the West, in the course of which he collected insects 
in the San Bernardino Mountains, along the Pacific coast in western Oregon, 
in northern Idaho, in eastern Washington, and in the vicinity of Glacier 
National Park, 
Dr. M. W. Blackman has completed his temporary assignment and has re- 
turned to Syracuse. During Dr. Blaclaman's service here he has arranged the 
eatire collection of Scolytidae, placing most if it in trays, and has been 
able to do critical identification work on a few suall eroups. His work has 
vrought the entire collection into a systematic sequence end has paved the 
way for critical. study on all of the unidentified material. This collection 
has heretofore been housed in Schmitt boxes and corix-lined drawers. Its 
transier to the trays will facilitate future work and make it possible to 
expand the collection and keep it in systematic order. The specimens belong- 
