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Dr. Warren Whitcomb, jr., of the Southern States Bee-Culturé 
Field Laboratory, Baton Rouge, La., represented the Bureau of Entomology 
at the Southern Beekeeping Conference held at Montgomery, Ala., February 
18 and 19. Representatives from eleven States were in attendance at the 
conference, which was well participated in by all delegates. E. G. Le— 
Stourgeon, editor of the Beekeepers' Item, San Antonio, Tex., was elected 
president, and Prof. Jesse M. Robinson, head of the department of ento- 
mology of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala., was elected 
secretary. 
On February 11 G. H. Vansell and Frank E. Todd were appointed As— 
sociate Apiculturists and reported for duty at Davis, Calif., where the 
recently established Pacific Coast Bee—Culture Field Laboratory will be 
located. For a number of years Professor Vansell has been engaged in re— 
search, and has conducted apicultural classes at the University of Cali- 
fornia. Mr. Todd, prior to his appointment, was entomologist, in charge 
of apiary inspection, at the California State Department of Agriculture. 
E. L. Sechrist, Associate Apiculturist, left Washington February 28 to 
take temporary charge of the new station. Mr. Sechrist has recently been 
actively engaged in cooperative studies conducted with the Division of 
Farm Management, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, relating to certain 
economic studies in apiculture. It is contemplated that similar studies 
will be inaugurated on the Pacific Coast. 
FOREST INSECTS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
J. C. Evenden, in charge of the field laboratory at Coeur d'Alene, 
Idaho, spent the last week in February in the Washington Office, con— 
ferring with Bureau officials and with the Forest Service in the planning 
of extensive forest-insect control projects involving the expenditure of 
approximately $200,000 during the months of April, May, and June. 
Dr. K. A. Salman has completed his notes on insect specimens 
which he collected at Berkeley, Calif., last summer, and is formulat— 
ing plans for an early beginning of the field season; if his present ar-— 
rangements are carried out, this will be initiated by a trip to the 
southern part of the State about the first of March, in company with L. 
G. Baumhofer, Assistant Entomologist at the field laboratory at Prescott, 
BTLZ. 
High-temperature tests to determine fatal temperatures for lar— 
vae of Scolytus ventralis were run by G. R. Struble at the Berkeley, Calitye 
field laboratory, during the month of February, aS a preliminary step 
to a test of the control of this insect by solar heat. 

