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W. J. Nolan judged the bee and honey exhibit at the Ohio State 
Fair, at Columbus, on August 26 and 27. The display was unusually fine, 
as the honey crop was the best in several years. 
Dr. W. W. Alpatov, of the University of Moscow, who has been 
studying in this country for the past two years as a Research Fellow of 
the International Education Board, has recently returned to Russia. On 
numerous occasions Doctor Alpatov consulted with the members of the staff 
of the Bee Culture Laboratory concerning his researches on the biometrics 
of the honeybee. He will continue his investigations in Russia. 
Jas. I. Hambleton appeared on the program of the Vermont State 
Beekeepers' Association at their annual meeting held at Barre, Vt., on 
August 30. The Association signified its willingness to compile a list 
of all beekeepers in the State of Vermont. This list will be available 
in checking the returns of enumerators in the 1950 census, when every 
effort will be made to compile reliable statistics on bees and honey. 
E. J. Hambleton, of Cornell University, visited the Bee Culture 
Laboratory on August 27, en route to the State of Minas Geraes, Brazil, 
where he will organize and conduct courses in entomology and apiculture 
at the Escola Superior de Agricultura e Veterinaria, at Vigosa. 
Through the intermediary of the Brazilian Ambassador and the 
Secretary of State of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture 
was requested to suggest the name of a specialist capable of locating, 
Organizing, and conducting an agricultural college on ths "United States 
plan." Dr. P. H. Rolfs, formerly Director of the Agricuitural Experiment 
Station and Dean of the Florida State College of Agriculture, was selected 
for this important mission. During the 1l years in which Doctor Rolfs has 
been administrative head of the college it has made great progress, and 
in the year about to begin special courses in entomology, apiculture, 
animal husbandry, and plant pathology are to be organized. 
Mrs. Richardson and Miss Theresa Dansdell, who are assisting Dr. 
H. E. Barnard, President of the American Honey Institute, in his work of 
organizing the White House Conference on Child Health, of which he is 
the executive secretary, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on August 23 
to study the system used by the Laboratory in cataloging beekeeping 
literature. 
