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ee einity of the Tower Falls and Camp Roosevelt section, 
_. EA Seite Park, On his return Mr, Evenden will make an examinstion 
eens of 1 ontrol project near Boise, Idaho, which is being conducted 
i essing, and also an area defoliated by the white pine butterfly. 
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_ os Control project on the Helena National Forest was completed 
y co. Pproximately 500 trees were treated. 

MISCELLANEOUS 
(Items from the National Museum contributed by S, A, Rohwer) 
We S. Fisher has practically completed a manuscript dealing with 
the West Indian beetles of the family Buprestidae. In connection with his 
studies on the species of this family Mr. Fisher has had an opportunity to 
examine not only the material in the National Collection but also material 
from the British Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
the American Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum, and the Poey | 
Collection in the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, Besides this he hag had 
an opportunity to study material from the collections of private workers, and 
many thanks are due to some of these, especially Professor Wickham and Prof, 
8. ©. Bruner, for the generous donations they have made to the National 
Collection, 
Mr. Heinrich has visited the collections of the American Museum, 
New York, to study the Kearfott types of microlepidoptera, and also the 
collections at the academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, to study the 
Clemens types. 
Mr. Rohwer spent a few days comparing specimens in the collections in 
the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and in the Philadelphia 
Academy of Natural Sciences, 
On June 22 Miss Isabel Cooper, scientific assistant of the Williams 
Galapagos Expedition, brought to Washington for identification the Heterocera 
and Hymenoptera secured by this expedition. It is understood that the 
types of all the new species are to be retained for the National Collection, 
These collections will be studied by Mr. Schaus and Mr. Rohwer. 
At the same time Miss Cooper took away several thousand Lepidoptera 
which had been secured by William Beebe while working at the British 
Guiana Experiment Station. These specimens had been identified by Mr. Schaus 
and are being returned to the New York Zoological Society for their collections. 
The work at the British Guiana Experiment Station and also the work done by 
the Williams Galapagos Expedition is carried on under the direction of 
William Beebe, with headquarters at the New York Zoological Gardens. 
