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PECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomolosist in Charge 
C. W. Stockwebl, a graduate of the Massachusetts Asriculturak 
college, has been appointed as piant quarantine inspectér, and is 
engaged in insepction work in connection with Japanese beetle 
operations at Riverton, N. J, 
H. E. Thomson, formerly in the employ of the New Jersey State 
Department of Agriculture, is now employed as field assistant in 
insect control and is assisting in connection with Japanese beetle 
work at Riverton, N, J, 
Miss Julia Ellen Edmonson, a graduate of the University of 
Kansas, is new employed as insect delineator and will prepare all 
needed: drawings for. the office, 
“iss Lorere Stratton, « student of. the Ore-on Agricul tural 
College, has been employed as field assistant and is assisting 
M. A..Yothers at Medford, Oreg,, in connection with apple insect 
investigations, re 
The Bureau's laboratory at Monticello, Fla., has been discon~ 
tinued and the agent in charge, John B. Gill, has been transferred to 
Brownwoed, Texas, where he will assume charge of pecan insect 
investigations, : 
H, K, Plank, who has been in charge of the Bureau's investiga~ 
tions of cranberry insects, has accepted a position with "La. 
Asociacion de Agricuitures del Ecuador," and will shortly sail 
for Ecuador, Mr. Plank will take charge of the entomological 
work about to be inaugurated in connection with an experiment 
station which has recently been established, with headquarters at 
Guayaquil, Ecuador, paying particular attention to insect pests of 
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LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
New Books 
Banks, Nathan A revision of the nearctigh termites..,., with Notes on 
biology ard geographic distribution,, by T.E. Snyder. 228 p., 
illus, 35 pl. Washington, Gov't Print, Off., 1920. (U. S. Naty. 
Mus. Bul, 108), 
Brundace, A. H. A manual of toxicology. ed. 11, 444 p, 8°. N.Y,, 
The Henry HarrisonnCo,, 1920, ey 
Lowne, B. T, The dnatomy, physiology, morphology and development of 
the blow-fly (Calliphora erythrocephala), v, 1-2 (778 p.) 
illus. 52 pl. London, R.H. Porter, 1890-1898, 
(The library has heretofore had only v.'1 6f this 
Work, 478 p. and 33 pl. 1890-1892) 

