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SCIENTIFIC NOTES 
489 
extension work in Wisconsin and Minnesota; W. A. Smith, apicultural extension work 
in Georgia. 
A conference on the Oriental Peach Moth, Laspeyresia molesta was held at the Bureau 
of Entomology, Washington, D. C., November 12, at 10 o’clock a. m. The distribu¬ 
tion, life history, injury, danger of spread and quarantine possibilities were discussed. 
The danger of spread by means of shipped fruit was considered far greater than by 
means of nursery stock, and any quarantine should include both. It was thought 
best not to establish any Federal quarantine at present. The following were pres¬ 
ent: Messrs. C. L. Marlatt, A. L. Quaintance, E. It. Sasscer, W. B. Wood, Bureau of 
Entomology; R. C. Althouse, Federal Horticultural Board; T. B. Symons, E. N. 
Cory, Philip Garman, Maryland; J. G. Sanders, Mr. Hoopes, Pennsylvania; T. J. 
Headlee, New Jersey; Wesley Webb, Delaware; Geo. G. Atwood, New York; W. E. 
Britton, Connecticut; W. E. Rumsey, West Virginia; L. A. Stearns, Mr. Underhill, 
Virginia. 
The following resignations are reported from the Bureau of Entomology: Miss 
Edith M. Brace, scientific assistant, Southern field crop insects, to return to teaching 
in New York City for the winter; J. P. Landry, truck crop insects, Louisiana, to enter 
the army; J. W. Sauer, truck crop insects, Kingsville, Texas, to resume his educa¬ 
tional work; Victor Duran, truck crop insects, Alhambra, Calif., to enter the army; 
G. J. Huclcer, cereal and forage insects, Nebraska, to enter military service in the 
Sanitary Corps; J. M. Langston, cereal and forage insects, Forest Grove, Ore., to 
engage in state work in Mississippi; Miss Mabel Stehle, scientific assistant, truck crop 
insects, to accept an appointment as instructor in zoology at Clemson College, S. C.; 
deciduous fruit insect investigations as follows: W. D. Whitcomb, J. H. Boyd, H. E. 
Spaulding, J. N. Lowe, D. R. Royder, to enter the army; M. B. Boyd, A. E. Booth, 
to enter private business; H. B. Pierson, E. W. Babcock, Geo. H. Vansell, to reenter 
college; Frazier Rogers to accept a position as assistant professor of agronomy, Uni¬ 
versity of Florida; K. E. Bragdon to resume his work with the Florida State Plant 
Board; C. H. Arndt to accept a fellowship in medicine; H. L. Weatherby to resume 
educational work in Savannah, Ga.; Max M. Reeher, cereal and forage insects, Forest 
Grove, Ore., has been granted an indefinite furlough to enter military service; H. M. 
Fort of the same division has entered the Medical Corps. 
Mailed December 17, 1918. 
