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Number 206 June, 
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1931 

DR. HOWARD RETIRES 
On June 30, after 53 years of service in the Bureau of Entomology, 
Dr. L. 0. Howard retired from active duty. It is needless at this time 
to record Dr. Howard's outstanding services, which have long been known 
to all the members of the Bureau. A statement referring briefly to the 
more important features was published in the Official Record for July 4, 
1931. His active interest in entomological work will not cease with his 
retirement, and he will continue to be associated with the Department as 
a collaborator. 

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For half a century Dr. Howard has taken a very prominent part in 
) entomological affairs throughout the world. Dr. CG. L. Marlatt says of 
him: "For 35 years Dr. Howard was Chief of the Bureau and during this 
j period was the inspiring leader of its constantly increasing personnel. 
q The development of the Bureau to its present status is largely his monu- 
ment." In addition to administrative duties Dr. Howard has been actively 
engaged, practically throughout his entire career, in the preparation and 
publication of papers on entomological subjects, and until 1907 he con- 
tinued to work and publish on the classification of chalcid flies. 
Dr. Howard plans to sail from New York July 11 on the S. S. Virginia 
for San Francisco by way of the Panama Canal. From San Francisco he will 
go to Honolulu, where he will visit for some time and take part in the 
Pan Pacific Congress. Following the stay in the Hawaiian Islands he 
will go to Paris, France, where he will make his home with his daughter 
Janet and work on a number of publications on entomology. En route to 
France he will stop at Japan, China, and Palestine. At the latter place 
he will leave a colony of one of the parasites of the Mediterranean fruit 
fly, which is being sent there from Hawaii as an aid in the control of 
this pest. 
On June 12 Dr. Howard received word that ne had been awarded the 
1931 Capper gold medal and $5,000 for distinguished service to American 
agriculture. The award was made because of his outstanding services in 
perfecting insect control measures, principally in the biological method 
of control, and also for his work on the carriage of disease by insects. 
