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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
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At the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Haven, the 
section of insecticides and fungicides on April 5 listened to papers by the following 
entomologists: Dr. E. D. Ball, Prof. W. C. O’Kane, A. E. Kelsall and Dr. William 
Moore. Mr. G. E. Sanders was on the program for two papers but was not present. 
Papers by P. J. Parrott and Hugh Glasgow and by P. J. Parrott and L. R. Streeter 
were read by Mr. Streeter. 
Mr. E. Graywood Smyth, investigating the Mexican bean beetle for the Bureau 
of Entomology, sailed early in April for Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. From this point 
he will proceed to the interior in an endeavor to obtain additional parasites of the 
Mexican bean beetle suitable for introduction into the eastern United States. The 
territory in eastern Guatemala, high and subtropical in character, should furnish 
parasites capable of living in the southeastern United States. 
Mr. A. J. Ackerman, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of apple insect investi¬ 
gations at Bentonville, Ark., and Prof. Geo. A. Dean, of the Kansas Agricultural 
College, met with fruit growers of the Arkansas Valley at Wichita, Kans., recently 
to discuss methods of aiding growers in the Wichita section in their fight against the 
codling moth during the coming season. Plans were made for co-operative work in 
the oichards at Wichita and at Belle Plain, Kans. 
Mr. C. T. Dodds, candidate for a Ph.D., University of California, has recently 
been appointed to take charge of the parasitic control work of the Santa Paula Citrus 
Association representing some 10,000 acres of citrus trees in Ventura County, Cal- 
fornia. His work has to do chiefly with the control of the black scale by means of 
parasitic and predaceous insects which will be reared in a newly constructed and 
modern insectary. Mr. Dodds is abundantly qualified to take over this very im¬ 
portant work. 
According to Science, Professor F. L. Washburn of the University of Minnesota 
has returned from the South Pacific with a collection of several thousand specimens 
of insects for that institution from the Marquesas and Society Islands. Almost all 
orders are represented and sufficient material in the various families was secured to 
afford opportunity for exchange with other institutions. Most of this material was 
secured at from 200 to 300 feet above sea level, but many specimens were also taken 
at elevations of 1,500, 2,500 and 2,800 feet. 
Mr. Samuel S. Crossman and Ray T. Webber of the Bureau of Entomology 
gipsy moth laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass., will visit Europe during the spring 
and summer of this year to secure beneficial species of parasites to aid in the fight 
against the gipsy and brown-tail moths. Mr. Crossman spent several months in 
Europe last year, and as a result of his observations it is believed important to con¬ 
tinue the work of importing, breeding and colonizing of European parasites of the two 
insects. Material as collected will be shipped to the laboratory at Melrose Highlands, 
Mass. 
Mr. H. G. Crawford of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of 
Agriculture, returned from a trip to southern Ontario on April 4 where he arranged 
for the beginning of the season’s work. Considerable quantities of corn stalks were 
found to have been carried into Lake Erie by water from the spring floods. Ma¬ 
terial was also found frozen in the dislodged ice. This ice was later blown out into the 
lake by the winds from the north, suggesting a probable means of infesting the 
southern shore of Lake Erie. 
