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TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
H. J. Reinhard, of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 
studied the National collections of the tachinid genus Sturmia from 
January 5 to January 10. 
On January 10 George Wilson, of the Florida Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, came to the National Museum to obtain information on the 
taxonomy of the Acarina of Florida. . 
George Englehardt, of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y., spent 
January 20 to 24 working in the collections of the family Aegeriidae. 
Dr. H. W. Allen, of the field laboratory for investigations of 
peach insects, at Moorestown, N. J., was in the taxonomic unit January 
23, to discuss the hymenopterous parasites of the oriental fruit moth. 
On January 30 M. C. Lane, of the Bureau's field laboratory at 
Walla Walla, Wash., for the study of soil insects, was in the section 
of Coleoptera to consult the specialists there. 
G. F. Mozgnette, of the Bureau's nut-insect field laboratory at 
Albany, Ga., came to the taxonomic unit January 31 to consult the special- 
ists in Lepidoptera. 

BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
On December 29, at the meeting of the Apicultural Section of the 
American Association of Economic Entomologists at Cleveland, Ohio, E. 
L. Sechrist read a paper on "Economic Apiculture." This meeting was 
well attended and-some excellent papers were presented. Much satisfac— 
tion was expressed over the arrangements which permitted a separate meet— 
ing for the Apicultural Section. Before returning to Washington, Mr. 
Sechrist interviewed some of the Ohio beekeepers who are keeping records 
for the Department, and discussed points of grading and marketing honey 
with producers and dealers of that State. 
E. L. Sechrist attended the 22nd annual meeting of the Maryland 
State Beekeepers' Association, at Baltimore, on the evening of January 
7, and gave.a talk on "Management of Bees" based on the study of the eco-— 
nomics of beekeeping which he is conducting in cooperation with the Bu 
reau of Agricultural Economics. Much interest was expressed in the re-— 
cent increase in the demand by orchardists for bees for use in effecting 
adequate pollination. Reports were given of greatly increased yields 
through better fertilization secured in large blocks of fruit trees of 
self-fertile varieties, by placing one or two colonies of bees on each 
acre of orchard. 
