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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
E. L. Sechrist left Washington April 5 to spend several months 
in the Intermountain States, where a cooperative study dealing with the 
cost of honey production and systems of apiary management will be con- 
ducted by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Bureau of Entomol— 
ogy. About 40 commercial apiaries in the States of Colorado, Wyoming, 
Utah, Montana, and Idaho will be used for obtaining data. R. 8S. Kifer, 
of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, is expected to join Mr. Sechrist 
shortly to assist in the work. C. L. Corkins, State Entomologist, Laramie, 
Wyo., R. G. Richmond, Deputy Apiary Inspection, Fort Collins, Colo., 
D. H. Hillman, State Inspector of Apiaries, Salt Lake City, Utah, and 
O. A Sippel, State Apiarist, Bozeman, Mont., are giving very valuable 
assistance in this work. 
Dr. J. W. Bulger has been transferred from the Bee Culture Labora— 
tory to the office of Deciduous-Fruit Insect Investigations, with the 
rank of Associate Entomologist, where he will be engaged in compiling 
an insecticidal pharmacopoeia. 
On April 50 Lieut. Gen. Phya Vijitavongs, Minister of Siam, 
visited the Bee Culture Laboratory in the interest of the developmeat of 
bee culture in his native country. 
Prof. Herbert Osborn, of the Department of Entomology and Zoology, 
Ohio State University, Columbus, visited the Laboratory April 25. 
TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
S. A. Rohwer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
The transport "Cambrai" bearing the C. F. Baker collection of 
insects arrived at New York on April 7, where it was met by R.A. Cushman, 
who had gone to New York to superintend the transfer of the collection. 
Through a change of plans, made on the advice of the Coordinator in 
New York, the shipment from that city was made by rail instead of by 
water. On April i0 the collection was transferred to a freight Carieon 
the 12th it arrived in Washington. and the next day it was transferred 
to the Museum. On the 16th and 17th it was unpacked and distributed by 
orders to the various specialists in the Museum. The collection was 
found to have arrived in excellent condition, with a negligible amount 
of breakage, no trace of mold, and very little verdigris. The total 
of 1,417 boxes are distributed by orders as follows: Coleoptera 607, 
Hymenoptera 207, Homoptera 209, Hemiptera 115, Lepidoptera 124, Orthop- 
tera 9G, Diptera 41; and the remaining 19 are divided among the smaller 
orders. The number of boxes devoted to family units varies from a frac— 
tion to 1z2 boxes. Some of the larger families are housed in the follow— 
ing numbers of boxes: 
