February, '14] entomological investigations 7 



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January, 1913) at $2.00 $8.00 



By stamps used 4 . 00 



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By advertisement in Journal .25 



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F. L. Washburn. 



Voted that the report be accepted and the recommendations adopted. 

 President P. J. Parrott : I will now call f oi* the report of the Com- 

 mittee on Entomological Investigations, by Mr. W. C. O'Kane. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS, 



1913-14 



Compiled by W. C. O'Kane 



Investigations dealing with Mammalia 

 Nebraska, Lincoln, — Myron H. Swenk. 

 The prairie-dog. 



Substantial progress. PreUminary publication contemplated. 



Neiv Mexico, State College, — D. E. Merrill. 

 Prairie-dogs. 



Collecting data as to distribution, numbers, and damage, looking toward 

 efforts at control. 

 Rodents. 



Tests of poisons, traps, etc. Scattering. 



Investigations dealing with Crustacea 

 Mississippi, Agricultural College, — R. W. Harned, R. N. Lobdell. 

 The crayfish of Mississippi. 



Shght progress during the past year. 



Investigations dealing with Acarina 



Montana, Bozeman, — R. A. Cooley. 

 Tick investigations in Montana with particular reference to Dermacentor venustus. 



North Carolina, Raleigh, — Franklin Sherman, Jr. 

 Red spider on cotton, — C. L. MetcaK, Assistant. 



Observations on hfe history, habits, etc. Begun last year; will continue. . 



New York, Geneva, — ^P. J. Parrott. 

 Monographic study of the Eriophyidoe of New York. In immediate charge of 

 H. E. Hodgkiss. 



Ohio, Wooster, — H. A. Gossard. 

 Mites affecting live stock and poultry. D. C. Mote. 



(Dept. Animal Husbandry, in cooperation with Dept. Entomology.) 

 Treatment of mites affecting stored products and greenhouse plants. 



Experiments by Goodwin, Gossard and Whitmarsh. 



