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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTO^IOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



^Ir. E. H. Siegler, Bureau of Entomology', with headquarters at Grand Junction, 

 Colo., reports very heavy damage to fruit in the Grand Valley by late spring frosts. 

 Orchards have been found, however, vrith. sufficient fruit to permit of experimental 

 spraying for the codling moth, and there is abundant material of this species for hfe- 

 history studies. 



The following temporary field assistants have been appointed in the Bureau of 

 Entomolog}' and detailed for investigations of tobacco insects: Messrs. D. M. 

 DeLong, Charles Hauck, F. C. Liles, Frank G. Sorrels, Oakley M. Shelby, Mack S. 

 Linebaugh, Samuel F. Grubbs, Carl A. Wickland, Richard K. Catlett, and Walter 

 C. Xagle. 



A new quarantme inspection house is nearing completion in the Mall near the corner 

 of Twelfth and B Streets N.W., Washington, D. C. In the future all nursery stock 

 addressed to the Department of Agriculture will be delivered to this house for inspec- 

 tion, and, if necessary, will be grown in quarantine in a tightly screened greenhouse 

 constructed for this purpose. 



Mr. A. H. Jennings, Bureau of Entomology, who has been in New York City for 

 some months with the Thompson Pellagra Commission, has gone to Mound, La., 

 where he will be associated with Dr. D. L. Van Dine in the investigation of malaria 

 mosquitoes. The work of the Bm-eau of Entomology^ on pellagi*a has been discon- 

 tinued. 



Mr. P. H. Timberlake, of the Salt Lake City laboratory. Bureau of Entomology^, 

 in Mr. Rockwood's absence, is being assisted by IMr. Bevan, a temporary appointee 

 from Colorado, in the distribution of the CanidieUa parasites of the alfalfa weevil. 

 Colonies of this parasite have been estabhshed at Mm-ray, Salt Lake, Ogden, Kays- 

 ville, and Taylorsville, and it is planned to place additional colonies at HoUiday, 

 Provo, Logan, Brigham, and Park Citj. 



Mr. W. D. Pierce, Bureau of Entomology, made a short trip during June to Atlanta, 

 Ga., for a conference with the State Entomologist, and Thomasville, Ga., to arrange 

 for cooperation experiments between G. D. Smith of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 and the Georgia State Board of Entomology, and to Clarksville, Term., for a con- 

 ference with the men engaged in tobacco-insect investigations. He also visited 

 various points in the boll weevil infested territory. 



The Alabama Polytechnic Institute has conferred the degree of Doctor of Science 

 upon Altus Lacy Quaintance in charge of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations in 

 the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. Dr. Quaintance was at one time a student at this 

 Institution, taking his Master's degi'ee therefrom. This is the first Doctorate of 

 Science conferred by the Institution and bears testimony to the high quahty of the 

 scientific work which has been done by Dr. Quaintance. 



A new insectary building 19 by 25 feet is just bemg completed for the branch of 

 truck-crop and stored-product insect investigations of the Bm'eau of Entomology. 

 In addition to a spacious outside insectary for housing breeding material, the build- 

 ing will furnish laboratory headquarters for stored-product insect tests, and a num- 

 ber of effective apphances for testing methods of eliminating stored-product insects 

 from prepared cereals and other materials infested by them are being installed. 



Among the temporary appointees in the Bureau of Entomology who commence 

 their work in June, are the following: J. H. Newton, of Ai'izona, who will be attached 

 to the laboratory at Tempe, Ai'iz.; George R. Bailey will be attached to the labora- 

 tory at Gainesville, Fla.; J. H. Hart to the laboratory at Lafayette, Ind.; Eugene 



