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4 ee Prof. Dr. “Hirowo Hea regener) Teaooratory, Tokyo Sericultural College, 
Japan, spent. a.few.hours visiting tie Museum on June 4.' He was especially in- 
- terested in the Orthoptera COL eaticHa: 
e. He Timberlale, formerly connected with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters! 
‘Bxperinent Station in Honolulu, and who has resigned to aa & position with 
the California Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside, Calif., spent the week 
Zz of June 16 to 23 in the U. S. National Museum, studying haters of chalcid flies. 
Mr. Timberlake was on his way to visit relatives in New Hampshire, and expected 
speeene arn to Riverside, Calif., where he will be permanently located, about 
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. ‘Pe. BR. Myers, of the Bureau of Entomology Laboratory, Carlisle, Pa., 
a stopped over in Washington June 27 and 28, on his way back to Carlisle from a 
4 field trip to North Carolina. 
Dr. W. Blackman reported on June 15 to work in the Division of In- 
sects on cee collections of bark-beetles belonging to the superfamily Scolytoidea. 
It is hoped that Dr. Blackman will be able to rearrange the entire collection, 
Placing most if it in trays, and probably have an opportunity to do critical 
work on one or two smaller groups. He brought with him the collection of the 
subfamily Micracinae, which he has critically studied during the last four 
months. 
John R. Greeley has been under temporary appointment for the last fif- 
_ teen days in June, and during this period he assisted Mr. McAtee in arranging 
_ part of the Hemiptera collection. During the remaining portion of the summer 
season Mr. Greeley will work under the Biological Survey, and in the fall will 
return to Cornell to-carry on his university studies. 
Henry Fox, who has recently been assigned to the work of the Japanese 
_ beetle, spent four days in the Museum working on the collection of Orthopitera, 
securing records for a revised list of the orthopterous insects of New Jersey. 
Dr. H. Pittier, a botanist working for the government at Venezuela, was 
q in Washington for about ten days, and- while here paid a visit to the Section 
of Insects to inquire about some of the material which he has forwarded for 
_ identification, and become acquainted with some of the men who have been identi- 
_ fying material for him. 
. James Zetek and family, of Panama, visited the Museum recently. Mr. 
_ Zetek has collected a great deal of fine material which has been sent to the 
_ Museum for identification and addition to the collection, and has spent con- 
_ siderable time collecting nests, termites, and wasps, and also a series of some 
_ of the rare Panamanian ants. 
7 August Busck and Carl Heinrich left for Amherst, Mass., on June 26, to 
' pack the collection of Microlepidoptera formed by the late C. H. Fernald. The 
Department of Agriculture has recently purchased this coliection from Dr. H. T. 
Fernald to be added to the already extensive collection of Microlepidoptera. 
~The collection contains not only the Fernald types, but also much valuable 
