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J. U. Gilmore, of the Tobacco Insect Laboratory at.Clarksville, Temn., 
made a trip to Dillwyn, Va., for the purpose or investigating damage to young 
tobacco plants by an undetermined species of insect. 
#. 5. Chamberlin, of the Quincy, Fla., station, made several trips ; 
during the month to Tifton, Ga., in the interest of bright tobacco insect in- 
vestigations. 
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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
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E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
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E. L. Sechrist attended a field meeting of Wisconsin beekeepers at 
Watertown June 21. 
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H. F. Phillips and J. I. Hambleton will attend the annual Chautauqua 
for beekeepers held by the University of Wisconsin August 11 to 13. This year 
the meeting will be held at Fond du Lac. » 
The Maryland Beekeepers! Association will make its annual visit to the 
Bee Culture Laboratory at Somerset on the afternoon of July le. The work of 
the laboratory will be explained to the visitors. 7 
Erwin W. Tschudi, of Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed tem- 
porarily to complete the work on the colors of honey and the making of a honey — 
erader. 

MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
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Dr. W. M. Mann returned to Washington June 11, after a four months! 
trip through Colombia and several of the Central American republics. He first 
went to Santa Marta, Colombia, where he spent most of the time in the lowlands, — 
with several short excursions into the mountains, among other places, to the 
Flye estate, Cincinnati, where so Many naturalists have visited. Afterwards he 
stopped for five days in Panama with Mr. Zetek, and went on to Costa Rica, where 
he crossed from the East to the West Coast and spent considerable time in the 
fruit districts of Cartago, Alajuela, and Oretina. From here he went to Hon- 
duras, where he went over the territory previously studied in 1920; then into 
the Truxillo district, newly opened by the United Fruit Company, and on to 
Guatemala, where most of the time was spent in the fruit districts around 
Esquintla, Antigua, and on the western Slope at Zacapa and Quirigua. Quanti- 
ties of fruit flies were reared and other economic material gathered, and, in 
addition, a miscellaneous collection of insects, including some ants. 
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