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BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
George H. Rea, of Reynoldsville, Pa., formerly Extension Specialist 
of the Bee Culture Laboratory, and also of Cornell University, visited 
the laboratory on October 2 and 3. 
M. Hajdak, temporarily employed as Field Assistant at the Bee 
Culture Laboratory, resigned on October 13 to take up graduate work at 
the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. 
Prof. H. F. Wilson, Custodian of the C. C. Miller Memorial Li- 
brary, at Madison, Wis., very generously gave to the library of the Bee 
Culture Laboratory the title-page and index for Volume 9 (1873) of the 
American Bee Journal, one of the rare volumes of this journal. The ac-— 
quisition of this material completes the file of the American Bee Jour-— 
nal in the library at the Bee Culture Laboratory. 
J. E. Eckert, Associate Apiculturist, at the Intermountain Bee 
Culture Field Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo., has been granted leave of ab— 
sence to enable him to take up graduate work at the Ohio State Univer— 
sity, at Columbus. 
In October E. L. Sechrist, of the Bee Culture Laboratory, and R. 
S. Washburn, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, made their last 
trip of the season, through New York State, closing up the work of the 
cooperating honey producers who are keeping records in the study of 
apiary management. Mr. Washburn is completing the same work in the other 
States of the clover region, continuing the cooperative work formerly 
done by R. S. Kifer, who is taking graduate work at Columbia University. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
On October 9, at the request of the Oregon State Board of Horti- 
culture, Geo. I. Reeves, of the field laboratory at Salt Lake City, at- 
tended a hearing on alfalfa weevil quarantines at Portland, Oreg. 
Dr. W. H. Larrimer, accompanied by H. S. McCrory, of the Bureau 
of Public Roads, attended the Corn Borer Field Day on October 15 at the 
Corn Borer Demonstration Farm, Berkley, Mass. 
Visitors at the Washington office of this division in October in- 
cluded Prof. Herbert Osborn, of the Ohio State University, Dr. Weide 
Hall, Entomologist for the British African Company of Rhodesia, South 
Africa, and Dr. J. C. Hamlin, of the field laboratory at Salt Lake City. 
Dr. F. W. Poos and Dr. F. F. Smith, of the field laboratory at 
Rosslyn, Va., spent October 31 at Columbus, Ohio, to examine type material 
of Cicadellidae and to confer with specialists. 
