94 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS— PLANT QUARANTINES AND TERMINAL INSPEC- 
TION REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO FRUITS AND OTHER PLANT PRODUCTS SENT 
TO MILITARY CAMPS 
November 21, 1941. 
It has come to attention that parcels containing fruits and other plant products, 
which are not indorsed on the outside to show that fact, are being sent by relatives 
and friends to officers and men in military camps located in States which have 
established quarantines prohibiting or regulating the entry of certain plants or 
plant products or which require inspection of such articles under the terminal 
plant inspection regulations. For example, fruits, including apples, almonds, 
apricots, cherries, chokecherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, and quinces, 
are not properly acceptable for mailing into Arizona, California, or Oregon from 
the quarantined areas and the entry into these States of oranges or other citrus 
fruits is also restricted or entirely prohibited. 
Under the law embodied in paragraph 1 (b), section 596, Postal Laws and 
Regulations, a penalty is imposed for failure properly to indorse parcels containing 
any plants or plant products when addressed for delivery in any State maintaining 
terminal inspection. Failure to mark the parcels on the outside may lead to the 
dissemination of injurious plant diseases or insect enemies. 
Postmasters and accepting employees should, therefore, be particularly careful 
when accepting parcels addressed to officers and men in military camps located in 
any State maintaining terminal plant inspection or which has established quaran- 
tine laws and regulations under the act of June 4, 1936, as listed on pages 20 and 
24 of the current Postal Guide, to see that the parcels fully comply with the regula- 
tions. To this end they should question mailers and require parcels containing 
fruit or other plant products to be properly indorsed. Postmasters at the offices 
of address in terminal inspection States should also exercise care to see that all 
parcels containing such articles, whether or not so indorsed, are treated as pro- 
vided by paragraphs 3 to 7, section 596, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
BISHOPP AND SPENCER TO BE ASSISTANT CHIEFS IN BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND 
PLANT QUARANTINE 
[Press notice] 
November 8, 1941. 
P. N. Annand, chief of the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, today announced appointment of Fred C. 
Bishopp as assistant chief of the Bureau in charge of research work, and Frank H. 
Spencer as assistant chief in charge of business administration. Avery S. Hoyt 
will continue as associate chief, and S. A. Rohwer as assistant chief. 
Dr. Bishopp was born at Virginia Dale, Colo., on January 14, 1884. He received 
his B. S. degree in 1902 from Colorado Agricultural College, and his M. S. in 1903 
from the same school. He received his Ph. D. degree from Ohio State University 
in 1932. From 1904 to 1905 he was assistant professor of entomology and assistant 
State entomologist in Maryland. He then joined the Federal Bureau of Ento- 
mology to work on cotton boll weevil investigations until 1910. The following 
2 years he worked on tick investigations. He spent the next 5 years studying 
insects that affect the health of animals. Dr. Bishopp was made chief of the 
Division of Insects Affecting Man and Animals in 1927, and has continued in this 
capacity up to the present appointment. 
Dr. Bishopp is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science and the Entomological Society of America. He is a member of the American 
Association of Economic Entomologists and was president in 1937; a member of 
the Washington Entomological Society, president in 1932; member of the Wash- 
ington Academy of Science; the Biological Society of Washington; the American 
Society of Parasitologists, president in 1938; the American Society of Tropical 
Medicine, the Texas Academy of Science, the National Malaria Committee; and 
the honorary societies Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi. 
Mr. Spencer was born in Burlington, N. J., January 2, 1899. He attended the 
Washington School of Accountancy, and graduated from LaSalle Extension 
University and Alexander Hamilton Institute. He joined the Government in 
