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and crude forest products. 
4. Insects affecting unseasoned manufactured products. 
5. Insects affecting seasoned and finished products. 
6. Insects affecting utilized forest products. 
7. Miscellaneous forest insects. 
8. Study of the relation of insects to chestnut bark 
disease. 
Locations, Personal and Work on Special Projects. 



























‘The executive office is in the Evening Star Building: the labora- 
‘ies in the New National Museum and Star Building; the forest insect 
lections of alcoholic and pinned material with the pernament notes 
d records are in the forest laboratory room 31, New National Museum 
. in rooms occupied by specialists in the insect division of the Mu- 
The exhibit and part of the insect work collections are at the 
1 Bureau building and at the Star Building. 
_ The field work is conducted from Washington and from more or less 
anently located field staticns. 
Washington Offices and Laboratories. 
Dr. A. D. Hopkins kas charge of the investigations and in addition 
) bh executive duties, is engaged in the systematic and economic study 
fF the Scolytia beetles; also gives personal attention to Certain spe- 
fic and general projects on which he has done more or less work before 
‘after he came to the Bureau- or are of such @ broad nature to re- 
ire his special attention, such as the investigation of insects af- 
ecting chestnut, hickory and ash growth and products; powder-post in- 
acts, insects affecting forest products in general; relation of clima-~- 
i¢ Conditions to forest insect life including the relation of latitude 
nd altitude to the periodical phenomena of plants and insects. 
.. Mr. T. E. Snyder, is engaged in the systematic and economic study 
f Isoptera; in conducting experiments in chemical treatments of wood 
O prevent attack by Termites and powder post insects; and in general 
vestigation of chestnut and chinquapin insects and insects affecting 
rest products. 
Wr. F. C. Craighead, is engaged in systematic and economic study 
“Cerambycid larvae; investigation of the relation of insects to the 
estnut bark disease; the relation of defoliated trees to subsequent 
ack by bark boring insects, with special reference to the Gipsy and 
wntail Moths. 
%& Mr. Jacob Kotinsky, is engaged in bibliographic, translation, ard 
itorial work, , 
. W. S. Fisher, is engaged in the systematic arraugement of the 
. Méction of forest Coleoptera and identification of Forest Tien 
her than Scolytidae with special reference to Buprestidae and Gvrauy, 
des; also engaged in seasonal history studies of hickory insects, 
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