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B. L. Boyden, Associate Entomologist, Tampa, Fla., reported that the 
sweet—potato weevil eradication laboratory at Macclenny, Fla. burned on the 
night of April 16. Fortunately, the majority of the notes ‘on the project 
were moved to Tampa some time prior to the fire, and only a few motes and 
a small amount of laboratory equipment were destroyed. 
._.,_,lv. Boyden, accompanied by W, E, Stone, Junior Entomologist, Tampa, Fla., 
visited Sanford, Fla,, during the lattcr part of April to make observations 
On the wild host plants of the celery leaf-tyer (Ealyctacnia rubigalis Guen.), 
and also to determine other factors which retate:to the outbreaks of this 
ansect in the celery ficids of Florida, | 

E. W. Davis, formorly of the Kansas Agricultural College, has received 
a temporary appointment and is stationed at Madison, Wis. He will assist 
Mr, Dudley in mvestigations on the control of the onion maggot (Hylemyia 
antigua Meig.). 
N. #. Howard, Associate Entomologist, Birmingham, Ala., stopped off 
at Washington en route to Geneva, N. Y., to formlate plans with Professor 
P, J- Parrott, of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, regarding a 
cooperative project on the Méxican bean beetle in that Statc.- 
Rodney Cecil. Junior ‘Intomologist, formerly located at Birminghan, 
Ala., working under the direction of N. F. Howard, has been assigned to 
the project just mentioned and will be located at Geneva, N. Y., on and 
after May 1, 1925. 
BEE-CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS’ 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
Virgil Argo, who, in connection with his graduate worl at Cornell 
University, is making an investigation of Braula coeca Nitzsch in Carroll 
County, Md., visited the Bee-Cuiture Laboratory several times in April. 
Other recent visitors were Dr. A.-D- Imms, of the Rothamsted Esperimen- 
tal Station, England; and Dr. BR F. Phillips, of Cornell University. 
Jas. I. Hambleton attended a mecting of: beekecpers and horticulturists 
in Providence, R, I,,.0n April.29. St: ex 
GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL NMOTH- INVESTIGATIONS 
wAreF.sBurgese, Gendor Mitonoglogistyrin Charge 
Franklin H. Mosher, who hed for many-years been connected with the 
gipsy moth laboratory, died April 18, 1925, at Melrose Highlands, ass, He 
had been il] but afew days, and his suddon death was a grcat shock to his 
associates, by wintmliew was held in high ostcocm. 
