sek ES ioe ) ‘ 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L, Quaintance, wien ee of Bureau,in Charge 
T, L. Bissell, formerly associated with H. F, Willard at Honolulu, 
Hawaii, in connection with investigations of the Mediterranean anc other fruit 
flies, and who was granted a furlough for the purpose of undertaking graduate 
studies at Cornell University, has been reinstated in the Bureau and assigned 
to duty at Thomasville, Ga., where he will be associated with John 8B. Gill 
in biologic investigations of the more important pecah insects in that region. 
Gilbert J. Haeussler, graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, has been appointed Junior Entomologist and assigned to duty at 
Riverton, N. J., where he will assist Dr. Alvah Peterson in oriental peach moth 
investigations, : 
_C, A. Thomas, who has been assisting in the Japanese. beetle investigations 
at Riverton, N. io has resigned from the Bureau to hal: a position with oe 
Pennsylvania State College at State College, ra. 
Oliver I, Snapp, in charge of peach insect investigations at Fort Valley, 
Ga., writes that among the visitors at the laboratory during the month of 
June were Dr. 5. H. Wilson, State Chemist for Sees. and J. HE. Bodenhamer, 
State Food Inspector, for a conference relative to spray residue on rife 
peaches. Mr. Snapp also states that the curculio infestation in the peach 
varieties that have ripened to date has been well within one per cent in 
Georgia peach oréhards which have had proper attention.: 
A third generation of the oriental peach moth has just been reared at 
the insectary at Fort Valley. 
Several men connected with the Office of Fruit Insect Investigations 
have recently received degrees, as the result of graduate studies, as 
follows: P, W. Mason, Ph; D., George- Washington University; C. A. Weigel 
Ph. D., Ohio State University: ©. I. Snapp, M. S., Miss, Agricultural & 
. Mechanical College, and Robert C. Burdette, M, 5., University of Maryland. 
SAO AeteSt aa i oh ae INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
AP af. tlebb, Associate Entomologist, acting in Sie 
Pode W, ES tobacco pen. from Zomba, Nossal eee British Central 
Africa, visited the Quiacy, Fla., tobacco substation on June 26. 
Dr. G. F. White attended the meeting of the American Medical Association — 
at Atlantic City in the last week in May. At this meeting a paper was presented 
under the authorship of Kirby-Smith, Dove, and White entitled "The Cause of 
Creeping Eruption." Reith . 
