MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
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-DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. (5 5 #* 7? | a) 
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Two members of the force have recently received the degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy, namely, A. C. Baker, from George Washington University, and A. T. 
Speare, from Harvard University. . 
W. OD. Whitcomb, who was granted a furlough to enter the military service, 
was honorably discharged from the Army, and has been reinstated in the Bureau. 
He -will be assigned to duty in connection with apple insect investigations in 
Washington State, 
C. H. Alden, who was engaged in scouting work for the oriental peach moth, 
and who resigned from the service to enter the Army, has been appointed as scien- 
tific assistant, and will be given a field assignment. 
R. W. Kelley, engaged in extension work in deciduous-fruit insect control 
in Indiana, visited the Bureau for a few days, and has now returned to his head- 
quarters at La Fayette, Ind. 
7 E. W. Scott, who was granted a furlough to accept a commission as first 
lieutenant in the Quartermasters Corps of the Army, has been honorably discharged 
from the Army. He has been reinstated in the Bureav- to resume his duties in 
connection with the enforcement of the Insecticide Act, with headquarters at 
Vienna, Va. 
SOUTHERN FIELD-CROCP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
W. Dwight Pierce, Entomologist Acting in Charge. 
On account of arsenical poisoning, B. R. Coad, in charge of the cotton- 
boll weevil laboratory at Tallulah, La., has’been advised by his physician to 
take a furlough of two months. “3 
Max Kisliuk, jr., has been p!aced on a new project entitled "Investigation 
of Treatment cf Human Excrement to Prevent the Breeding of Flies and other Di-. 
‘sease-Carrying Insects," for cooperative work with the Public Health Service with 
headquarters at Wilmington, N. C. : . 
Messrs. Hutchison, Sasscer, and Back have been designated as a committee 
in cooperation with a committees from the Bureau of Chemistry to investigate the 
possible utilization of poisonous gases used in warfare for fumigation against 
insects. 
| Doctor G. F. White returned to duty after having served for a short period 
as Captain in the Medical Corps of the Army. He is assigned to a study of the 
tobacco cutworm disease. | 
J. U. Gilmore, of the tobacco-insect investigation, returned to duty on 
January 1, but for personal reasons found it necessary to retire to private life 
on January 15. 
