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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
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Number 152 December, 1926 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, In Charge 
Doctor Heinrich Prell, of Germany, visited the Bee Culture Labratory in 
December. 
Jas; I. Hambleton and W. J. Nolan attended the meetings of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, at Philadelphia. Mr. Hambleton 
presided at the meeting of the Apicultural Section of the American Association 
of Economic Entomologists. At one of the meetings of this Section L. R, Watson, 
formerly connected with the Bee Culture Laboratory, gave a successful demonstra- 
tion of his method by which the fertilization of queenbees may be accomplished 
under artificial conditions. Prof. L. M. Bertholf, of Western Maryland College, 
who for the last few summers has been at the Bee Culture Laboratory, studying 
the reaction of the honeybee to light, also gave a demonstration of his work 
before the same Section, aS well as before the Society of Experimental 
Zoologists, . 
In December A. P, Sturtevant, in charge of the Intermountain Bee Culture 
Field Laboratory, attended beekeepers! meetings at Thermopolis, Wyo., Billings 
and Bozeman, Mont.; Boise, Idaho; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Grand Junction and 
‘Fort Collins, Colo, J. E. Eekert, who is also connected with the Intermountain 
Bee Culture Field Station, attended several of these meetings, 
JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren B. Smith, Entomologist, in Charge 
Many scientists who attended the meetings of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, held in Philadelphia the last week in December, 
visited the Japanese Beetle Laboratory as an incident of their stay in this 
section of the country. Included among those who stopped at the station were 
A. G. Dustan, Ottawa, Canada; C. J. Drake, Ames, Iowa; Phillip Garman, New Haver 
Gonn.; J. S. Hauser, C. R. Cutwright, G. A. Filinger, and L. L. Huber, Wooster, 
Ohio; H. F. Dietz, Indianapolis, Ind.; J. M, Robinson, Auburn, Ala,; C, &. 
Eddy, Clemson Collegs, S. C.; F. A. Fenton, Florence; S..C.; J» J. Davis, 
La Fayette, Ind.; B, A. Porter, Vincennes, Ind,; KB, W. Stafford, A. & M. College 
Miss.; A, A. Granovsky and L. M. Thatcher, University of Wisconsin; and F. L. 
Gambrell, Geneva, N. Y. 
