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Doctor Burnside's paper on septicemia brought out the interesting 
and rather unusual fact that the causative organism named by him, Bacillus 
apisepticus, enters the bee through the respiratory system, and not through 
the alimentary tract. 
©. H. Skaife, of the Department of Public Instruction, Capetown, 
Union of South Africa, gave an interesting account of beekeeping in South 
Africa. He stated, among other things, that their two common races of 
honeybees are not the same as those occurring in the United States. He 
emphasized the precautions that are being taken in South Africa to pre- 
vent the entry of American foulbrood. This disease does not occur there 
at.the present time, and for this reason all foreign importations of honey 
and. bees are prohibited. 
A number of excellent papers by Russian investigators were pre- 
sented, among which may be mentioned those of Dr. W. W. Alpatov, of the 
University of Moscow, on "Variations in honeybees from the theoretical 
and practical points of view," Prof. A. F. Gubin, Odinzowc, Moscow, on 
"The work of the Moscow Apicultural Experiment Station," and.A. Skorikov, 
of the State Institute for Experimental Agronomy, Leningrad, on "The 
employment of Caucasian bees in the fertilization of red clover." In 
this paper was reported the finding of some Caucasian bees with tongues 
considerably longer than the tongues of the average Italian or German 
bees. 
Ethel Ronzoni and Dr. George H. Bishop, of the Washington Univer-— 
Sity School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., presented a paper on "Sugar 
metabolism in honeybee larvae." 
Doctor Bertholf, in his paper on "Reactions of light in honey-— 
bees," showed that the stimulating efficiency in the spectrum for honey-. 
bees is almost the same as that for humans, reaching its maximum in the 
yellow-green. In the shorter wave-lengths the efficiency for bees is 
considerably higher than for humans. The converse is true for long waves. 
Dr, Louis Bahr, Bakteriologisk Laboratorium, Ratin, Copenhagen, 
brought up for discussion the establishment of an international bee- 
mourneal, to record research in the field of apiculture, both from the 
Scientific and the purely practical. points of view. Another matter 
Dbrought up for discussion was the advisability of the affiliation of the 
Apis Club, an international apicultural organization, with the Interna- 
tional Congress of Entomology. If this were done the Club would still 
continue to hold its annual meetings in England, as in former years, but 
in addition would hold an international meeting at each time and place 
that the Congress meets, 
One of the special social features of the Congress for those in- 
terested in apiculture was a picnic for the Section of Apiculture, ar- 
ranged by Dr. E. F. Phillips and his students, which was held on Thursday 
evening in the rear of Roberts Hall. About sixty persons were inattend- 
ance. 
