A. N. Caudell gh a talk on PES si SRN ENA over the radio on the 
iui of J a 26. 
Dr. W. J. Holland, of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently spent a day here 
with 1b Beueus 
Some interesting specimens of North American Lepidoptera have recently 
been received as gifts from the Carnegie Museum, - Mhey are mostly species not 
ik ieeenronted in the collection, mS | 
é Dr. Win, Schaus has es, donated to the National Museum a valuable 
PeRection of 10,000 specimens of moths,’ chiefly from Bolivia, which Were 
eee by him from a collector in ‘that. cen 
Messrs. Martin, Gayer, and Hewes, staff. ba tomacteré of the’ National 
Geographic Magazine, have been working with Dr. Dyar for several weeks, 
making plates of butterfites and moths. for publication in an early nunber of 
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TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. EB. Graf, Senior Entomologist; in Charge 
Messrs. Boyden, Campbell, Dudley, and Howard, who were called to 
Washington for conference in the latter part: of December, 1926, have re~ 
turned to their official stations.. Mr. Campbell stopped off at the Delta 
Laboratory at Tallulah, La., where he conferred with officials in charge | 
regarding the methods used in poisoning the cotton boll weevil. He is 
attempting to determine whether similar methods could be used, under Cali- 
fornia conditions, against the pepper weevil, 
Walter Carter, Twin Falls, Ideho, visited Richfield, Utah, on 
January 11, to look over the prospects for eth a, a substation there for 
. the sugar beet leafhopper ecological studies. 
Pir. a. Graf attended - a meeting of State and other officials at 
- Accomac, Va., on January 21, to CEE she tuber moth situation on the 
Eastern Shore, 
The temporary appointment of G. A. Orum as Field Assistant at 
. Boley, Ala., in connection with work in the eradication of the sweet AS 
mt: has ‘been terminated, effective January 18. ‘i 
F. B, Cotner, Associate Professor of Botany and Bacteriology, Mon- 
‘tana Agricultural College, Bozeman, has been appointed a Collaborator, ef- 
, fective oo 1. | 
