


A recent conference was held in Philadelphia for the purpose of dis- 
cussing all phases of the Japanese beetle project, including quarantine 
Operations. Those present were Drs. 7. J. Headlee and A. I. Quaintance, 
Messrs. L. B. Smith, C. H. Hadley, E. R. Sasscer, B. R. Leach, C. W. Stock- 
well, GC. 4. Thomas, E. R. Van Leeuwen, WV. E. Fleming, G. B. Stichter, 
@. H. Worsinger, and Prof. Cc. A. McCue, 
G. F. Moznette, in charge of the Bureauts laboratory at Miami, Fla., 
made a trip to the Isle of Pines and Cuba recently for the Federal Horticul- 
tural Board, for the purvose of making further examinations of fruit cul- 
tures of those islands, to determine their freedom, or otherwise, of fruit 
fly infestation, 

MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
Dr. G. C. Crampton of the Massachusetts Agricultural College was in 
the Musewa on March 10 and 11 consulting with various specialists in regard 
to some of his problems on insect anatomy. He also spent some time in the 
Division of Invertebrate Zoology consulting with Dr. Waido L. Schmitt on some 
of the forms of Crustacea, 
The Division of Insects has received for study a third shipment of 
types of American muscoid flies loaned by the Zoological Museum in Vienna, 
Austria. This material is a part of that which was the basis of Brauer and 
Bergenstamm's large work published some 30 years ago. The classification 
of the material in the National Museum will be very much improved by the study 
of these types, 
A letter written at sea between Santa Marta and Panama has recently been 
received from Dr. W. M. Mann. He tells cf some of his experiences in Colombia 
as follows: . 
The avocados that I went to examine were scattered about 
in the banana fields, marting where huts had stood before the 
land had been cultivated and most of my time was spent looking 
for them and slicing open the fruit, 
One week end at the #lye estate we had the time of our lives. 
The house is 1,500 feet high in the mountains and reached by a 
tyvo-hour mule-tack ride, mostly very uphill. The water is cold 
and can be taken without boiling. More important, collecting 
was quite good, too. 
Carriker, Mr. Flye's son-in-lav, is a well-known naturalist 
and the one that Viereck stayed vith when in Colombia, No less 
than eight people I know personally and several others have 

