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During the months of July and August an examination of the infested 
areas on the Yosemite National Park and the Mono National Forest was made by 
J. M. Miller. 
GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F. Burgess, Senior Entomologist, In Charge 
A. F. Burgess spent a few days in Washington in the first week of 
October, and attended the meetings on estimates for 1927, held by the Bureau 
of the Budget. 
C. F. W. Muesebeck recently spent several weeks at the Division of In- 
- sects of the United States National Museum, conducting studies of various para- 
sites which had been reared at the gipsy moth laboratory and continuing his in- 
vestigations of the subfamily Braconinae. He hopes to prepare a revision of 
this group. He also stopped at New Haven and Philadelphia to study certain 
specimens. 
M. T. Smolyan has recently returned from Somerville, N. J., where he has 
been carrying on a study of the dispersion of the introduced gipsy-moth para- 
sites and their relation to some of the native insects. 
A. W. Young, who has been in the service of the Bureau of Entomology 
since October, 1913, associated with the gipsy moth and brown-tail moth projects, 
has tendered his resignation and is to live in Florida. 
S. M. Dohanian resigned from the Bureau of Entomology on September 30, 
1925, to accept a position with the American Cyenamid Co., of New York. Mr. 
Dohanian has been with the Bureau of Entomology, on the moth project, since July, 
1917, except for two years of service in the Army. 
Dr. F. Materna, of Vienna, Austria, and Albert artzell, of the Boyce- 
Thompson Institute, Yonkers, N. Y., and Mrs. Hartzell, were recent visitors at 
the gipsy moth laboratory. 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
Jas. I. Hambleton attended the meeting of the Connecticut State Beekeep- 
ers! Association held in Hartford on October 24. 
Visitors at the Bee Culture Laboratory curing the past month included 
H. H. Root, general manager of the A, I. Root Company, Dr. E. F. Phillips and 
Virgil Argo, of Cornell University, Prof. E. N: Cory, of Maryland, Editor Freer 
of The Forum, and Rockward Nusbaum, a prominent Maryland beekeeper. 
EB. L. Sechrist is still in the West, obtaining field data on the grading 
of comb honey. 
