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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge. 

H. B. Parks, receatly employed as a Special Field Agent in entomological 
extension work of the state of Texas, has resigned from the service and accept 
ed a position as State Extension Entomologist for Texas. His successor has no’ 
yet been designated. 
W. 0. Hollister, a graduate of the Connecticut heyioultaral College of 
the class of 1907, has been appointed Scientific Assistant, pending certi- 
fication, and will report for duty during the month of March at the West 
Lafayette, Indiana, field station. 
F. R. Cole, formerly attached to the branch of Truck Crop Investiga- 
tions, has been transferred to this branch, effective March 1, and will be 
stationed at the Forest Grove, Oregon, field station, under the direction 
of Mr. C. W. Creel. 
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SOLICITED. . 
Funds are needed fo knitting, surgical dressings, garment making, 
housing, entertainment, books, scrap books for hospitals, and war. orphans, 
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE DESIRED FROM ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE BUREAU, BOTH IN WASH- 
INGTON AND IN THE FIRLD. ALCO FROM THRIR FAMILIES AND FROM ANYONE INTEREST- 
ED IN TH® WORK. 
Send your contributions to Mrs. H. 8. Bishop, Bureau of Entomology, 
and specify, if you have any preference, to what purpose you desire the 
contribution to be put. NO AMOUNT XS TOO SMALL! 
WANTED: 
PHENOLOGICAL RECORDS, 
In connection with Dr. Hopkins’ studies on the relation of the Biocli- 
matic law to research and practice in Entomology, he will greatly appreciate 
records of dates on which the male catkins are falling from the Carolina pop- 
lar and Lombardy poplar from the largest possible number of localities in the 
United States. 
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