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for Baton Rouge. He there took charge of the Field Laboratory on August. 
30, and Mr. Nolan returned to Washington. Mr. Nolan gave a talk con— 
cerning the new field laboratory at a meeting of the Louisiana State 
Reekeepers' Association, held on July 25 and 26, and also at the Southern 
States Beekeepers' Conference, in session at Texarkana, Tex., on August 
6 and 7. Later, he participated in the beekeeping program of Farmers' 
Week, held by the University of Florida, at Gainesville, Fla., on August 
13 to 18. Doctor Whitcomb also attended the Texarkana meeting. On their 
return from Texarkana, Mr. Nolan and Dr. Whitcomb, in company with Jes 
Dalton, made a survey of the package-bee business around the Hamburg 
center in Avoyelles Parish, La. 
Dr. L. M. Bertholf, who continued this summer at the Bee Culture 
Laboratory his studies on the reaction of bees to light of various wave— 
lengths and intensities, resigned his temporary appointment as Field 
Assistant on September 10, to resume his duties as Professor of Biology 
at Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md. 
Miss Mary Louise Crossman, temporarily employed as Field Assist— 
ant at the Bes Culture Laboratory, resigned on September 13 to assume 
teaching work at the East Falls Church High School, East Falls Church, Va. 
Ralph K. Day, who has been temporarily employed as Field Assist— 
ant at the Bee Culture Laboratory, and who worked on color change in 
honey, resigned September 18 to resume graduate work at the California 
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 
Prof. C. L. Farrar, in charge of beekeeping at the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, Amherst, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on 
september 11. 
Dr. Everett Oertel, who has been assisting in the beekeeping work 
at Cornell University, and Mrs. Oertel visited the Bee Culture Labora— 
tory several days in the week of September 10. 
Prof. Shujiro Inomata, Entomologist at the Agricultural College, 
Tottori, Japan, visited the Laboratory on September 25. Professor Inomata 
states that courses in beekeeping will be given at the Agricultural 
College at Tottori. 
Jes Dalton, of St. Francisville, La., for the last few years pres— 
ident of the Louisiana State Beekeepers' Association, was appointed 
September 20 a collaborator of the Bee Culture Laboratory. 
Prof. F. B. Paddock, of the Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, 
fowa, visited the Intermountain Bee Culture Field Laboratory, Laramie, 
Wyo., in the week of September 10. 
John C. Ferris, of the East Coast Canning Co., Jacksonville, 
Fla., called at the Laboratory on September 18 to discuss methods of 
bottling honey 
