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mace Of rethods of peemring, for provisioning cases for mailing 
qucenbecs, candy which will conform with the ro cul? tions of tho Post 
Office Devartment ond which will remain soft for some time. —“‘any hun- 
dreds of quecns arc now lost annually from food of voor quality. Jay 
My Smitn mis boon apoointed temporarily for this work. 
tf. D. Suaftesbury, a graduate student at thc Johns Hopkings Uni- 
versity, has been spoointed for thc summer months to conduct investiga- 
tions in the changes occurring in the aging of bees. 
J. Be Moorman, also of Jénns Hopkins, has been appointed for the 
summer 2nd will assist in the effort to determhne whoethar Tarsoncmus 
woodi, the purported cause of the Isle of “Jight discase of bees, is 
oresent in the United States. There was recently vublished from the 
University of Abordcen the results of the work of Dr. Jvhn Rennic and 
his 2ssociates vhich show the parasitic and pathogenic nature of this 
gsocecies. 

Tio Census dat» so far issued indicatc 2 decrease in the number 
of beokcepers on farms but an increasc in the number of colonies of 
becs. Bees in tovms ond cities are not included in Consus returns and 
as a result most comreréial beekeepers °re omittcd. The inereasc in 
the numbor of colonics per beckceper is quite to be exsected because 
of the inercasing tendency toward tne development of specialist bec- 
kecvers. 
TAPIOVAL IUSEUT 
Trio National Muscum hes just received 2 finc collcetion of 
named I.onididee (Cecidomyiidnc, the gall midges), a family of small 
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flies, from Dr. ™.P. felt, Stotce E.tomologist of Now York. 
Part of this matcrial was loanee to Dr. Felt some time ago for™) 
study. Dr. Felt has wade 2 spocial stwy of this very important fanily 
of flies. Hu has also added quite 9 nuibcr of species new to the 
Museun collection. Tis collection comprises about 800 microscope | 
slides 2nd about 40 diffcrent ‘inds of galls, the work of thesc flies. 
Mare thom half of the species represented arc from the type material. 
Tcre are 2bout 270 specics distributec in 71 genera, of which 1%4 specics 
are represented by type material. 
This collection is now about tie second best in the country. 
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PINK BOLI OR’! CONFERENCE 
Fourteen cotton-croving States vere represented at a conference 
called by the Devartment of Acricviture in Weshington thy 16 ei con~ 
sider thc measures for eradicating the pink bollvora from thesUnt yee 
States. Tne delegates attending included represcnta tives from the 
