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BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
H. H. Root, of Medina, Ohio, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory 
September 4, and interviewed the members of the staff in rezard to the 
progress of various research problems. 
The vice-president of the Apis Club, an international organiza- 
tion of apiculturists, Jean Chaneaux, of Les Arsures (Jura), France, 
visited the laboratory September 18 and 19. Mr. Chaneaux stopped at 
somerset at the conclusion of a ten months' visit to beekeepers of the 
United States. In this time he visited practically every important 
beekeeping State, and had personal interviews with many of the commercial 
beekeepers of the country. 
J. E. Eckert, Associate Apiculturist of the Intermountain Bee 
Culture Field Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo., spent several days at the Beo 
Culture Laboratory, conferring with various members of the staff in re- 
gard to his work on the flight range cof the honeybee, and consulting 
the literature in the beekeeping library. 
While in Washington recently, A. W. B. Kjosness, general manager, 
and 0. Lende, counsel, of the Mountain States Honey Producers' Associa- 
tion, conferred with the members of the Bee Culture staff and other 
Government officials in the Department of Agriculture. 
| W. E. Anderson, State Entomologist of Louisiana, who has charge 
of the State apiary work, visited the laboratory on September 27. 
Dr. W. E. Dunham, of the Ohio State University, Columbus, who 
has been employed temporarily as Field Assistant, working on the problem 
pertaining to the use of honeybees in the pollination of red clover, 
stopped at the laboratory on September 24 to discuss various phases of 
his summer's work. 
Dr. O. W. Park, Research Apiculturist of the Iowa Agricultural 
College, Ames, has been appointed a collaborator. 
Russell Smith, Winfred L. Martin, Harry W. Roath, Seymour E. 
Bailey, and Miss Alice Mayo have terminated their appointments as temporary 
Field Assistants. 
Harry H. Laidlaw, jr., has been appointed Minor Scientific Helper, 
and assigned to duties at the Southern States Bee Culture Field Labora- 
tory, Baton Rouge, La., and William C. Northrup has been appointed As- 
sistant Scientific Aid, for service at the Intermountain Bee Culture 
Field Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo. 
