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The following persons visited the Intermountain States Bee-Culture 
Laboratory. Laramie, Wyo., during the month: George E, Brimmer, Chairman 
of the Wyoming-George Washington Bicentennial Commission, Cheyenne, 
Wyo.; Dr. A. ©. Hildreth, Director of the Great Plains Experiment Farm, 
Cheyenne; L. T. Oldroyd, Commissioner of Agriculture, Cheyenne; R. L. 
Esmay, Adjutant General of the State of Wyoming, Cheyenne; and Prof. 
S. H. Dadisman with some 50 students in agricultural education. 
During the month E. L. Sechrist and Frank E. Todd, of the Pacific 
Coast Bee-Culture Field Laboratory, Davis, Calif., visited the Oregon 
Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oreg., and interviewed Dr. J. T. Jardine, 
Director of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, and several mem-— 
bers of the station staff and of the college faculty in regard to a con— 
templated beekeeping survey in Oregon. 
Reports have been received from Nevada and California, as well 
as from certain places in the Eastern States, of the abnormal death of 
adult bees. The trouble is invariably reported as paralysis. No one 
as yet has discovered the cause of this trouble, which is quite wide— 
spread, and it is not possible at present to make a definite diagnosis. 
The Bee—Culture Laboratory has undertaken certain inoculation experi-— 
ments with bees suffering from this adult trouble in the hope of dis— 
covering its cause. 
An unusual number of beekeepers have visited the Bee-Culture Lab— 
oratory this month to obtain information relative to the various phases 
of beekeeping. The general financial conditions of the country appar-— 
enily have had no effect in diminishing the zeal for beekeeping. 
TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL, AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECTS 
A. ©, Baker, In Charge 
Dr. C. I. Bliss arrived in Washington May 5 for a conference with 
Bureau officials in regard to the work at the Whittier, Calif., laboratory. 
F, H, Benjamin, engaged in research on the Mediterranean fruit fly 
at Orlando, Fla., was a visitor at the Washington office the last week of 
May. 
Ralph Schopp was appointed Junior Entomologist, effective May 28, 
and aSSigned to duty at Sumner, Wash. Mr. Schopp has had experience in 
the Bureau, having held a temporary position on corn—borer work in Ohio. 
In last month's issue we stated that Dwight L. Hubbart, Under Bio- 
logical Aid, was appointed for duty at Balboa, Canal Zone. This was an 
error, aS Mr. Hubbart was added to the staff of the Whittier Calif., 
laboratory. 

