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The Chatrman of the Board also attended and addressed on August 21, 
the American Society of Florists and Ornamental Horticulturiats at their 
annual meeting in Detroit. The subject was Federal Plant Quarantine Act 
and especially Quarantine No, 37, 
R.K. Beattie is in Texas making preparations to take over the fu- 
migation of railway cars and vehicles on September 16, 
C. A. Bennett and J. Monteith, Jr., refently visited New York 
to study the condition, as regards insects and diseases, of foreign 
bulbs which heve been arriving in large numbers during the past month. 
H. B. Shaw of New York was in Washington on August 3 and 4 on 
official business. 
Lester E, Palmer, who has for the past two years been in charge 
in the Federal Horticultural Board of the enforcement of regulations and 
restrictions governing the entry of foreign plants and plant products un- 
der regulation, has resigned. Mr. Palmer has been a very efficient offi- 
cer and his 4sparture is a distinct loss to the Board, 
.J,:G, Sanders, Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 
Pennsylvania State Department of Agriculture, who is a collaborator of 
this Board, has been conmissténed by this Department, at the instance 
of the Board, to make an expioration of potatoe wart conditions in Eng- ~ 
land, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to become better acquainted with the 
various phases of the problem for the control of this disease as it has 
been worked out in these countries. He is expected to return early in 
September, 
The use of the aeroplane for scouting for the pink bollworm has been 
reported in previous issues of the Monthly Letter, This work has recent~ 
ly received a serious Setback as a result of a fatal accident which hap~ 
pened on August 7, in which both Lieutenant Tillisch, pilot, and E.L. Di- 
ven, the technical observer of the Board, lost their lives, These flights 
have been condutted for a considerable period without serious accident. 
The danger of this service was fully recognized, but it was hoped the 
Board's record would be a clean ons, except astto accidents of the minor 
character. Both Lieutenant Tillisch and Mr. Diven were men of high char~ 
acter and undertook the work with a full reaiization of the personal risk. 
Mr. Diven, who had been in the service of the Board for over a year, was 
an especially earnest and capable man and hés promise for fiature useful- 
ness was very high. His death is a great loss to the service. 
TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
F. H. Chittenden, Entomologistsin Charge. 
From the eradication project of the swest-potato weevil control 
campaign at Macclenny, Fla., continued progress is reported. Four new 

