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Number 211 Activities for October ovembs 
(Not for Publication) 


DOCTOR HOWARD VISITS HifRES PARASITE LABORATORY 
A report from the European Parasite Laboratory, Hyéres, Var, 
France, contains the following interesting note: "From October 29 to 
November 1 the laboratory was honored with a visit by Dr. L. 0. Howard 
and his daughter, Miss Janet Howard. On November 1 they left for Paris, 
where Dr. Howard expects to remain until the convention of the Inter-— 
national Entomological Congress next summer." 
APPOINTMENT OF U. C. LOFTIN 
U. ©. Loftin was appointed Senior Entomologist in the Cotton In— 
sects Division of the Bureau, effective October 7, to serve as first as-— 
Sistant to R. W. Harned. His headquarters will be in Washington but it 
is expected that he will spend a considerable part of his time in the 
field. Mr. Loftin is a graduate of North Carolina State College with | 
' the degree of B. S. and of the University of Florida with the degree of 
M.S. He was formerly employed in the Bureau (1915-1917) in sugarcane in- 
sect investigations, and in the Federal Horticultural Board (1918-1921), 
in charge of pink bollworm investigations in Mexico. Following that he 
was for nine years entomologist and field manager of a large cotton plan- 
tation in Tlahualilo, Mexico. During 1929-30 he was chief entomologist 
of the Cuba Sugar Club, Central Baragua. He has recently completed a } 
sour months' survey of the Virgin Islands, under the Office of Insular 
Experiment Stations of this Department, to determine the abundance of 
the pink bollworm and the possibility of carrying out an eradication 
Campaign against this pest in the Islands. 
- BEE CULTURE 
A. P. Sturtevant, of the Intermountain Bee Laboratory, Laramie, f 
Wyo., has been studying the danger of carrying American foulbrood in 
package bees stocked from infested hives. As bearing on this matter, 
he reports the conclusion of one type of experimentation which seems 
to indicate that even under direct inoculations, varying doses of bacillus 
injected into selected larvae do not necessarily produce disease. "The 
work on the inoculation of individual (bee) larvae with Bacillus larvae 
White (the bacillus of American foulbrood) was concluded for the season. 
Final observations at the end of the season in the five colonies re- 
ported on last month showed no disease developed in these colonies as 
