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night I did not suffer a single mosquito bite, The mixture does not seem 
. tO be very efficatious against the house fly, but the addition of a res 
repellent nay make it so, It may be effective against ted-bugs also, In 
F sections where field men are troubled in their work the use of this sub- 
| stance may be a great aid," ; 
UEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W, R, Walton, Entomologist in Charge. 
 £.V. Walter has been transferred from the extension work in Iowa to the 
investigational service, for duty'at Tempe, Ariz, This change became ef- 
fective Jilly 20. a. | , 
L.J. Hogg, formerly a. valued assistgnt attached to the Tempe, Ariz., 
laboratory, died very suddenly July 8 of acute peritonitis, “At the time 
of his death Mr. Hogg was employed as an agricultural specialist for one 
of the large copper “eoncerns in Arizoriay: — | 
The following appointments have. been made in connection with the Euro- 
pean corn- borer investigations at Arlington, Mass. Jonn H, Harmon, Tnom- 
as F, Murphy, Roger J. Chambers, H.E. Partridge, Arnold F. Leary, and Earl 
D, Lothrop. =, : 
. LIBRARY. 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
New Books. 
Brain C.X,, Report on typhus conditiéns in native dwellings. 20 pp., 6 fics, 
Pretoria, The govermrent printing and stationery office, 1919. (Union 
| of South Africa Dept. Agr, Local series By) 
|. British Museum (Nat, Hist.) ... A map showing the mown distribution in 
England and Wales‘of the anopheline mosquitoes, with explanatory 
‘text and notes, 63 pp., map. London, 1916 
Carter, Lucy A, The somatic mitosis of Stegomyia fasciata. (Quarterly 
Journal of Microscopical Science, new ser. No. 251, (v. 63, pty 3) 
pp. 375-386, fold. ply 21, Dec. 1918.) ee 
_ Construction of dipping tanks for cattle, revised April, 1919. (Rhodesia 
Aer, Jour,, v. 16, No» 2, pp, 141-189, April, 1919.) 
Doolittle, GM, Managecent of out-apii@ries; or, An average of 114% »ounds 
-of honey per colony, in a poor Season and Aow it was done... 4th ed, 
72 pps; illts.-Medina, Onf0, 1913. --* 
Ferris, G.F. A contribution to the knowledge of .the Coccidae of the south=— 
western United States. . 67 pp., illus. Stanford University, California, 
1919, (Leland stanford Junior University Publications, University 
: Series.) | | | rr: . 
Great Britain - Army Medical Department. Memofanda on some medical diseases 
an the Mediterranean war. area, with some sanitary notes, 1916, 
(Reprinted with amendments, 1917.): 148 pp., illus., plates, London, 
BiRQL7. “Insect pests," pp. S166. 
