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case of need, emergency reports. When the Bureau maintains, on some spe- 
cific project suchsas the corn borer and the pink vollworm 
has rm, extensive loc- 
al and regional surveys, this work will, as neretofore, be directed by the 
branches of the Bureau. ' . 
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Forty-eight entomologists have already accepted their appointment as 
insect pest reporters for this work, Five emergency reports have been 
issued covering items of timely interest to the rezions to which they 
were sent. 3 
The first manthly Insect Pest Survey Bulletin will be issued May 1. 
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BEE~CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge, 
W. J, Nolan has been appointed apicultural assistant and will contime 
the work begun in 1920 on the rate of development. of + i ? 
spring as influenced by various methods of wintering. ee ee 
Dr, E, F. Phillips attended a meeting of the Maryland State Beekeepers! 
Association at Baltimore on March 18, the annual meeting of the Vest Vir- 
ginia Beekeepers! Association at Charleston, March 25-36, and a special 
meeting of beekeepers during Farmers! Week at the University of Maine, 
Orono, on March 30, 
A fund is to be raised to establish a fellowship for research in Bee~ 
keeping in memory of Dr. C. ©. Miller, for so many years a leader in 
American Beekeeping, Mr, C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, Ill., is chairman of 
the committee, It has been requested that contributions in any amount be 
made on June 11, at which date Dr. Miller would have reached the age of 
‘90 years. 
SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J, L, Webb, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
K. B. McKinney, who was temporarily transferred to the Federal Hor- 
ticultural Board, returnedato the Bureau oh Fabruarv 21. He has been 
granted a furlough on account of ill health. 
Geo. H. Bradley alse returned to the Bureau on March 5, fror the 
Federal Horticultural Board. 
M. T, Young, R. C. Gaines, and W, R, Suwith will return to the Bureau 
on April l. 
Wallace E. Haley has been given a permanent appointment as field as= 
sistant in insect control and assigned to the sugar-cane insect laboratory 
at New Orleans, La. 
