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Shirley Watson Foster, connected with this office from April 15, 
1907, to October 10, 1912, and later manager of the insecticide depart- 
ment or the General Chemical Company, San Francisco, died October 23, 1923, 
following an operation for intestinal trouble, A more extended account of 
Mr, Foster will soon appear in the Journal of Economic Entomology. 
The following State entomologists came to Washington to attend the 
Japanese beetle hearing of the Federal Horticultural Board, January 4, 
192k: George G, Becker, Little ‘Rock, Ark.; E, N. Cory, College Park, Md.; 
8. B. Fracker, Madison, Wis.; P. A. Glenn, Urbana, 111.; C. H, Hadley, 
Harrisburg, Pa.; T. J, Headlee, New Brunswick, N. J.; S. J. Hunter, Lawrence, 
Kans.; M. D, Leonard, Aibany, N. Y.; and Frank N. Wallace, Indianapolis, 
Ind. The following also attended: Arthur Gibson, Dominion Intomologist, 
Ottawa, Canada; L. S. McLaine, Chief, Division of Foreign Pests Suppression, 
Ottawa, Canada; Wilmon Newell, Plant Commissioner, State Plant Board, Gaines- 
ville, Fla.; and C, A, McCue, Director, Agricultural Experiment Station, 
University of Delaware, Newark, Del. 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E, F, Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
James I, Hambleton and Dr, E, F, Phillips will attend a meeting of 
the Maryland State Beekeepers' Association in Baltimore January 9. 
A circuit of State Beekeepers' Association meetings, at which James 
I, Hambleton is to speak, is scheduled beginning January 12 for Richmond, 
Va., Morgantown, W. Va., and Harrisourg, Pe. 
Dr: E, F, Phillips is to take part in a two-day educational meeting 
for beekeepers at Carbondale, I11., February 20 and 21. 
. The American Honey Producers! League wili meet in Chicago January 
24 and 25. 
MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum contributed vy S, A. Rohwer) 
The Museum has recently temporarily assigned an additional room for 
use of the Bureau of Entomology, and Harold E, Morrison and his staff have 
moved into the building, transferring with him the National Collection of 
Coccidae., Heretofore the collection of Coccidae has been housed in the 
Insectary of the Bureau, The Musewm is a much more satisfactory place to 
house this valuable and growing collection. 
