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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 





Number 15 July, 1915 
INSPECTION OF FIELD STATIONS. 
Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, is visiting certain field stations of 
the bureau, especially in the far West. 
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS WANTED. 
Field men should send any and all clippings relating to any forms of insects or insect 
damage, domestic or foreign, to the chief of the bureau. 
There is a small form, on which such clippings should be pasted, which will be furnished 
the field force upon application. [L. O. H.] 
BACK NUMBERS OF PERIODICALS. 
It is possible to furnish, in some cases, back numbers of the following periodicals: 
Departmental Circular, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Weekly News Letter, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Monthly Letter (Old News Letter), Bureau of Entomology. 
(Make application to Editorial Office, Bureau of Entomology.) 
NEW PROJECTS. 
The following new projects have been approved by the Secretary of Agriculture: 
Testing insecticides and material for banding trees. A. F. Bureuss. 
Insects affecting tropical and subtropical fruits in greenhouses. KE. R. Sasscer. 
Investigations of insects affecting trees and ornamental shrubs. A. D. Hopkins. 
Insecticidal constituents of plants. A. L. QUAINTANCE. 
This project will include work on such problems as the preparation of insecticides by synthesis, plant 
attractiveness to insects, and manufacturing and introduction of plant insecticides. 
SUBJECT ASSIGNMENTS. 
The Chief of Bureau has approved the report of the Special Committee which recently 
investigated the several lines of work of more or less doubtful location under the present organ- 
ization of the bureau. As the result of this study the Chief of Bureau has made the following 
assignments of subjects: : 
CHIEF OF BUREAU. 
Insects affecting health of man (mosquitoes, house flies, etc.). 
Systematic: Scale-insect parasites, especially Aphelininae. 
Decipuovus-Fruir INsect INVESTIGATIONS. 
Insects attacking apple, pear, quince, and similar pome fruits, including wild pome fruits, 
Insects attacking peach, plum, cherry, and similar stone fruits, including wild stone fruits. 
Insects attacking the grape. 
Insects attacking cultivated nuts, as pecan, chestnut, walnut, filbert, hazelnut, etc. 
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