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Mr. Harrison E. Smith is settled in the new laboratory established at West Springfield, 
Mass., and will confine his work chiefly to New England. 
Mr. J. J. Davis, in charge of the laboratory at Lafayette, Ind., is making an extended south- 
ern trip, establishing some cooperative investigations in Lachnosterna at Auburn, Ala.; College 
Station, Tex., and other points. 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L. Quarntancg, In charge. 
Mr. John B. Gill has returned to his field station at Monticello, Fla., where he will continue 
investigations in connection with pecan insects. 
Mr. E. B. Blakeslee has returned to his headquarters at Winchester, Va., and will continue 
his studies of certain insects injurious to the peach. 
Mr. B. R. Leach will also make Winchester, Va., his headquarters as last year. His work 
on the woolly apple aphis as planned for the present season requires a good deal of travel in the 
Shenandoah Valley and neighboring regions. 
Mr. E. H. Siegler, formerly in charge of the laboratory at Benton Harbor, Mich., in con- 
nection with the project of insecticide investigations, has been placed in immediate charge of 
the laboratory at Grand Junction, Colo., where, in cooperation with the Colorado Agricultural 
Experiment Station, he wiil undertake a thoroughgoing investigation of the codling moth in 
the Grand Valley. He will be assisted by Mr. EK. R. Van Leeuwen. 
The laboratory in Maine has been discontinued. Mr. F. L. Simanton, formerly in charge, has 
been transferred to the laboratory at Benton Harbor, Mich., where he will undertake investiga- 
tions in connection with orchard insecticides and spraying machinery. He will be assisted by 
Mr. H. G. Ingerson. 
Mr. E. W. Geyer, who spent several weeks in Washington during the winter in connection 
with the preparation of reports, has returned to his headquarters, Roswell, N. Mex., where fur- 
ther experiments will be made in the control of the codling moth under arid conditions, including 
an extensive series of dusting experiments. 
Mr. R. J. Fiske will assist Mr. Geyer in the New Mexico work. 
Mr. W. M. Davidson has returned to his headquarters, Walnut Creek, Cal., where he will con- 
tinue his investigations in connection with the grape Phylloxera. During his stay in Washing- 
ton the report on the biology of this insect was about completed, and another season’s observa- 
tions will complete the subject in a satisfactory manner. 
Mr. H. K. Plank has returned to his headquarters at Pemberton, N.J., where he will assist 
Mr. H. B. Scammell in connection with cranberry-insect investigations. 
Mr. A. C. Baker has returned to Vienna, Va., where he will continue his investigations in 
connection with apple-plant lice. 
Mr. A. J. Ackerman has returned to his headquarters at West Chester, Pa., where he will 
continue investigations of nursery insects. 
FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. D. Hopxins, In charge. 
Dr. Hopkins left Washington on March 6 for the purpose of visiting the series of forest 
insect field stations in the West and addressing the third conference of national park superin- 
tendents and supervisors which met at Berkeley and San Francisco, Cal., on March 11-13, 1915. 
Ue has just returned. The field stations he visited included Colorado Springs, Colo.; Placer- 
