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BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
Dr. Warren Whitcomb, jr., in charge of the Southern States Bee Cul— 
ture Field Laboratory, Baton Rouge, La., attended the meeting of the Ala— 
bama State Beekeepers' Association, at Montgomery, on November 6 and 7. 
Dr. A. P. Sturtevant, in charge of the Intermountain Bee Culture 
Field Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo., and Dr. Warren Whitcomb, jr., in charge 
of the Southern States Bee Culture Field Laboratory, spent the week of 
November 10 at the headquarters of the Division of Bee Culture Investiga-— 
tions, at Somerset, in conrerence with the members of the staff. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., stopped 
at the Bee Culture Laboratory November 1 and 2, to consult its biblio-— 
graphical records. 
D. Crawford Houston, of the California State Bureau of Commerce, 
Sacramento, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on November 18 to consult 
about the shipment of package bees on the ocean. 
W. C. Jacobsen,Chief of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine and Pest 
Control of the California Department of Agriculture, Sacramento, called 
at the laboratory on November 20 to discuss matters relative to apiary 
inspection. 
Jas. I. Hambleton spent November 24 at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, Baltimore, to confer with members of the faculty of the Department 
of Biology and the School of Hygiene and Public Health. 
The library of this division is indebted to George J. Abrams, of 
the University of Maryland, College Park, for the gift of the first three 
annual reports of the Maryland State Beekeepers' Association. The fourth 
to the sixteenth annual reports are still lacking from the library, but 
it is hoped that these may be received. Since the publication of Bibli- 
ographical Contribution No. 21, listing the apicultural literature of the 
department, several rare and valuable contributions have been received. - 
Prof. W. E. Dunham, instructor in apiculture at Ohio State Univer-— 
sity, Columbus, visited the laboratory on November 29. 
