

eran 
Prof. H. F. Wilson, head of the Department of Entomology at the 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, and also custodian of the Dr. C. C. 
Milier Memorial Library located there, visited the Bee Culture Labo-— 
ratory on October 23. After looking over the library of the Division 
of Bee Culture Investigations he deplored the fact than many valuable 
and almost unobtainable books were housed in such an inflammable 
building. Noticing many of the gaps in the volumes of bee journals, 
he generously offered to transfer some duplicate material from the 
Miller Library to that of the Bee Culture Laboratory, as he fully 
agrees that the Department of Agriculture should possess the best 
possible beekeeping library. | 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
The alfalfa weevil field laboratory at Salt Lake City was 
Visited early in September by Dr. Filippo Silvestri, Portici, Italy, 
and Professor Felipjez, Leningrad, Russia. 
On September 15 Dr. J. C. Hamlin and M. M. Darley, of the 
alfalfa weevil field laboratory, returned to Salt Lake City after a 
ten-day study of conditions prevailing in alfalfa meal mills in west- 
ern Nevada. 
On September 21 L. Dean Christenson terminated his appoint-— 
ment as Junior Entomologist at the alfalfa weevil field laboratory, 
to take up graduate studies at the University of Minnesota. 
On September 17 Geo. I. Reeves and I. M. Hawley conferred with 
Peer, V. Cardon, Dr. H.- Ji Frederick, tand’ Dr: William Peterson, 
Director, all of the Utah Experiment Station, at Logan, on matters 
relating to arsenic poisoning. 
W. H. Larrimer, in charge of Cereal and Forage Insect Inves— 
tigations, spent October 25 to 30 at the field laboratory at Arling- 
EogieeMass., in consultation with D. J. Caffrey on matters relating 
to the corn borer work in Europe. 
W. J. Phillips, in charge of the field laboratory at Charlottes— 
ville, Va., spent October 10 in the Washington office. 
Geo. G. Schweis, Nevada State Quarantine Officer, visited Salt 
Lake City and Logan, Utah, October 18 to 22, and conferred with Feder- 
al entomologists regarding the alfalfa weevil, and with Dr. B. L. 
Richards, of the Utah Experiment Station, concerning a new and seri- 
ous disease of potatoes, apparently transmitted by a psyllid hereto- 
fore of little economic importance. 
On October 4, at the request of Nevada State officials, S. J. 
Snow investigated severe injury to corn, caused by the red spider, at 
Hiko, Nev. He also spent much time investigating the presence of 
- alfalfa weevils on the premises of the meal mill at Fallon, Nev. 
