BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 7 
ized on September 10, 1951, with Randall Latta as division leader and 
Lyman S. Henderson, assistant division leader. This division will 
conduct research on the control of insects that destroy stored products. 
A number of such activities that previously had been conducted by 
other divisions were shifted to the new division. 
Bureau personnel continued in a consultant capacity with numerous 
Advisory Committees interested in a wide variety of insect research 
investigations. Of especial importance Avas an industry-wide food 
advisory committee created to consult with the new Division of Stored 
Product Insect Investigations. 
E. R, Sasscer, in charge, Division of Plant Quarantines, was the 
delegate of the United States to the International Plant Quarantine 
Conference sponsored by the United Xations Food and Agricultural 
Organization at Rome, September 25 to 27, 1951. Along with repre- 
sentatives of 23 other governments he participated in the preparation 
of a revised draft of the International Plant Protection Convention. 
This convention has the objective of preventing the spread of plant 
pests and controlling them on an international basis. Frank McKen- 
non, Chief, Division of Plant Industry, Oregon State Department of 
Agriculture, attended as alternate delegate. 
Several additional all-time records were established in the number 
of inspections of foreign plant material arriving at United States 
ports and in inspections of pedestrians entering from Mexico. 
A number of entomologists transferred from the Bureau during the 
year to foreign assignments on Point IV programs. Other former 
Bureau personnel continued their foreign assignments with the De- 
partment of State on important desert-locust-control activities in the 
Near East, 
Bureau specialists completed the preparation of scores of manu- 
scripts and colored illustrations for the Department's 1952 Yearbook 
of Agriculture on "Insects." 
A study group was appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Charles 
F. Brannan in September 1951 to review the insect and plant disease 
programs of the Department and to make recommendations thereon. 
This committee had the cooperation of State and land-grant college 
officials, farmers, representatives of producer and industry organiza- 
tions, and others who appeared at hearings or submitted statements. 
After a thoroughgoing review, the study group submitted its report 
and recommendations on February 1, 1952. This report was in turn 
transmitted to the Subcommittee on Agriculture of the House of 
Representatives Committee on Appropriations. The report contained 
many constructive recommendations indicating the ways in which 
essential control programs may be performed most effectively and 
efficiently. It was possible to cany out some of these recommenda- 
tions during the current fiscal year. Other recommendations will 
influence future operation of these activities. 
Plans are being made for the celebration in 1954 of the one hun- 
dredth anniversary of entomology in the Federal Government, On 
June 14, 1854, an entomologist was added to the staff of the United 
States Patent Office. A committee has been appointed to prepare a 
tentative program for the recognition of that event. 
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