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Sumner is about 30 miles south of Seattle, and 10 miles southeast of 
Tacoma. The location is quite representative of climatic conditions which 
prevail throughout western Washington and western Oregon, sections in which 
the different branches of the industries interested are most highly devel- 
oped. The county farm is located a little over a mile from the center of 
oumner, off the Orting Road. C.F. Doucette, whose work on bulbs and flo- 
ral crops has caused very favorable comment, is in charge of the laboratory, 
and the interest stimulated by his work has had no small share in making 
the new ‘laboratory possible. The postoffice address is Box 566, Sumner, 
Wash. 
TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Professors E. 0. Essig and H. B. Herms, of the Department of Entomo- 
logy, University of California, at Berkeley, visited the taxonomic unit 
on January 1. 
Dr. H. L. Dozier, State Entomologist of Delaware, called on January 
4 to discuss with A. B. Gahan some problems dealing with parasitic Hy- 
menoptera. 
J. S. Houser, chief of the Division of Entomology, and H. L. Gui, As- 
sistant Entomologist, of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, con- 
sulted A. B. Gahan and some of the other workers in the taxonomic unit 
early in January. 
On January 7 and 8 A. F. Satterthwait, of Webster Groves, Mo., com— 
pleted the consultations which he began early in December with the Bu- 
reau specialists in the Museum. 
Dr. H. W. Allen, of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, Moorestown, N. J., 
spent January 9 to 18 in the Museum perfecting manuscript which deals with 
the species of Tiphia occurring in eastern Asia. Records from material in 
the National Collection not previously studied by him were incorporated in 
the paper at this time. 
Frank Johnson, of New York City, came to Washington on January 25 
40 Gonsult with Dr. Schaus and to deposit in the Museum collection a gift 
of some rare species of Lepidoptera. 
Dr. J. G. Needham, of Cornell University, spent January 23 to 29 
in the Division of Insects, working on the Chinese dragonflies in the Museum 
collections. With the assistance of R. P. Currie he was able to go over all 
of the Chinese material that had been accumulated by the Museum. He took 
away with him for further study several hundred specimens. 
