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h in extension work in beekeeping in South Carolina. 
E. Bartholomew of Iowa was appointed November 1 for the cooperative project 
Bhs Bureau of Entomology and the Extension Service of the University of 
e. Mr. Bartholomew left Washington on November 5 for Knoxville and soon 
began work in the mountain districts of Tennessee. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
| A. L. Quaintance, In Charge. 
BR. A. Cushman, who has been engaged in investigations of parasites of the 
pe-berry moth and other deciduous fruit insects, with headquarters at North Bast, 
S returned to Washington for the preparation of manuscripts and further 
ic work on parasitic Hymenoptera. 
2B. Blakeslee has returned to Washington from his field headquarters at. 
ield, W. Va., and will be engaged in the preparation of manuscripts and notes. 
G. Ingerson, in charge of the Bureau's grape-berry moth investigations at 
sky, Ohio has returned to Washington for the winter months. 

FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS - 
A. D. Hopkins, Im Charge. 
‘The designation, Forest Tree Ssed Insect Station, at Ashland, Oregon, has been 
A to Pacific Slope Station, with Assistant Forest Entomologist J. M. Miller 
e designation of Pacific Slope Station at Placerville, Cal., has been changed 
st Insect Laboratory and the location to Los Gatos, Cal., with H. E. Burke, 
list in Forest Entomology in charge. 
o* Notes from Fastern Field Station, Fast Falls Church, Va. 
During September and October a new insectary was constructed. It was built 
the study of insects injurious to crude forest products. It is forty feet long 
© feet wide and is divided into siz compartments two of which are again di-’ 
One of these compartuents is wade of reeded partition covered with a tight 
md has two windows covered with forty-mesh brass wire. This compartment is 
used to season woods: The other compartments are separated by fourteen-mesh 
Oid wire and have a removable lattice roof. All of the compartments are en= 
sa through doors from the outside and are really small screen houses which will 
B giv6 as near as is possible, in a cage, natural conditions. The base for the | 
ictary is concrete and the joint between the sill and base is carefully cemented 
6 Structure is (as far as mesh of wire allows) insect tight. I+ is planned to 
@ the structure with cheese cloth during the flight periods of the small Scoly- 
In October the Fastern Wiold Station was moved from Cedar Street, Falls Church, 
+ to @ new building on Washington Street near Falls Church, Va. This change does 
Mean any change in either freight, expross or mail address. The freight and 
ess offico is still Falls Church and the postoffice address Hast Falls Church, 
Hew building was built especially for the use as a laboratory but is so planned 
m% it can be converted into a dwelling house should the government discontinue its 
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