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of Agriculture for Ohio, and included Messrs. E. C. Cotton, Raymond C. Osburn, 

 Herbert Osborn, H. A. Gossard, J. S. Houser, T. A. Parks, and N. E. Shaw. Messrs. 

 W. R. Walton and L. H. Worthley of the U. vS. Bureau of Entomology also spent 

 two days at the Laboratory. The visitors were conducted on their trips by Messrs. 

 McLaine, Crawford, and Keenan of the Entomological Branch and Capt. George 

 Spencer of the Provincial Department of Agriculture. 



Pacific Slope Notes 



Mr. C. T. Dodds spent the summer in Sinaloa, Mexico, assisting R. H. Van Zwal- 

 uenberg in introduction, breeding and liberation of parasites of the sugar cane borers. 



Mr. A. W. Morrill of Los Angeles spent the first two weeks of September in the 

 State of Sinaloa, Mexico, in connection with contracts with growers and shippers 

 organizations for advisory services. 



Mr. F. H. Wymore, recent graduate in Entomology, University of California, has 

 been appointed as special investigator of the asparagus centipede in connection with 

 work for a Master's Degree. 



Mr. Albert H. Amis of the Stored Product Insect Investigations of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, stationed at the Alhambra, California, laboratory, has resigned to 

 accept a position with Dr. A. W. Morrill, consulting entomologist of Los Angeles. 

 Mr. Amis will be located at Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, the principal vegetable 

 growing and shipping point on the Mexican West Coast, and in addition to entomolog- 

 ical advisory services and investigations, will conduct general agricultural experi- 

 ments relating to plant disease control, fertilizers, irrigation and cultural methods. 



Mr. Eric Hearle, Assistant Entomologist in charge of mosquito investigations, 

 Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, is now in the Rocky 

 Mountain Park, Banff, Alta., where a temporary laboratory has been provided by 

 the Dominion Parks Branch of the Department of the Interior. A biological study 

 of the mosquitoes of the region is being undertaken and close co-operation in the 

 control work has been estabUshed with the officials of the Park. Mr. Hearle re- 

 ports that resulting from the spring control work, there has been a decided decrease 

 in the number of adult mosquitoes present. (Accidentally omitted from the October 

 issue although there was editorial reference thereto). 



Horticultural Inspection Notes 



Messrs. E. N. Cory of Maryland and W. J. Schoene of Virginia , attended the Bulb 

 Conference held in Washington on October 30, 1922. 



Mr. Harvey A. Horton, who has been stationed at Eagle Pass, Texas, for the past 

 two years, was recently transferred to the port of Seattle for the purpose of assisting 

 in ship inspection. 



A shipment of 1,000 sacks of walnuts arrived at the port of Vancouver on August 

 17th and were refused entry by Chief Provincial Inspector Lyne on account of being 

 infested by Plodia inlerpunctella. 



