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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
A. D. Shaftesbury, Bruce Lineburg, and B. Kurrelmeyer of Johns Hopkins 
University and Prof. L. M. Bertholf of the North Carolina College for Women 
have been appointed as temporary assistants beginning June 1. These men 
were all at the Bee Culture Laboratory last summer studying special problems 
for which material is available only in the summer and are returning to con- 
tinue the same studies. Mr. Lineburg will receive his master's degree in 
June and his thesis will consist of the results of the work done last summer, 
t] € paper being entitled, "Feeding of Honeybee Larvae." 
4 A. E. Lundie, who was at the Bee Culture Laboratory part of last summer, 
and again for a time during the winter, has sailed for his home in South 
Africa. He will receive his doctor's degree from Cornell University in June, 
"A Study of the Flight Activities of the Honeybee." Mr. Lundie will have 
| charge of the beekeeping work for the South African Government on his return 
i n ome ry 
A. P. Sturtevant appeared before a board of experts on May 29 to defend 
his thesis presented for his doctor's degree from the George Washington Uni- 
versity, the degree to be granted at the coming commencement exercises. His 
thesis is entitled, "The Development of American Foulbrood in Relation to the 
Metabolism of its Causative Organism." 
Paul E. Smith, Effie Marie Ross, and Mary G. Rozelle have been appointed 
as temporary aids for a continuation of the work on the temperature of the 
bee colony during the active season which was done last year. This year the 
work will be carried out only during the period of the heavy honey-flow from 
tulip-tree during the month of May, in order to get additional data for this 
important period. 
' The Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library, established by gift 
of the beekeeping friends of Doctor Miller, will be dedicated on August 17 
at the University of Wisconsin. On the following day a memorial tablet will 
be unveiled in the church at Marengo, Illinois, where he worshiped for many 
years. It is expected that the dedication will be the largest gathering of 
beekeepers which has ever been held in this country. A program has been 
arranged for the entire week beginning August 13, which this year will take 


his thesis being the paper prepared while at the Bee Culture Laboratory, entitled 
