JAPANESE SRBTLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren 3B. Smith, Entomologist, in Charge 
H, ©, Hallock has been transferred from the Japanese Beetle Lavora- 
tory to a new substation at Westoury, Long Island, for the purpose of con 
ducting biological work on sanomala orientalis. 
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Dr. C. H. Kennedy, of Chio State University, visited the Laboratory 
in the last week in hay. Dr. Kennedy has been arranging for the transfer of 
the Wentzel collection of Coleovtera from Philadelphia to Columbus, Ohio, 
f Js I. Holloway and M, C,. swingle, or Columbus, Ohio, E. T. Lundberg, 
of Storrs, Conn., and Rs. W. Burrell, of Amherst, Mass., have recently joined 
the parasite project of the Jepanese Beetle Laboratory. Messrs, Holloway and 
Swingle, who have been doing graduate work at Ohio State University during 
the past year, have been at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory for several weeks. 
Mr, Lundberg, who graduates at Connecticut Agricultural College this year, and 
Mrs Burrell, who graduates at Massachusetts Agricultural College, will report 
for duty early in June, 
Je Ls King and H, W. Allen recently visited the Gipsy Moth Laboratory 
at Melrose Highlands, and the Gorm Borer Laboratory at Arlington, Mass» While 
there they made a profitable study of the methods used in parasite work at 
these institutions. Dr. Allen spent a few hours examining type material of 
North American Tiphia in the collections of the Canbridge Museum of Coopera= 
tive Zoology, as weil as in the Conmecticut State collection at New Haven, 
T, R. Gardner, who. left Riverton early in May, has arrived at his 
Station in Yokohama, Japan, He will continue collecting Popillia parasites 
in Japan, in Chosen, and, so far as conditions permit, in China. 
Dr. Be. 3, Porter, of Vincennes, Ind., visited the Laboratory on May 
26 and couferred with E, R, Van Leeuwen relative to codling moth investiga— 
tions. 
liax Re Osburn, who recently completed his work at Ohio State Univer-— 
sity for the degree of Master of Science, has been appointed Field Assistant 
of the Bureau and assigned to beetle insecticide studies at Riverton, Ny de 
Mr. Osburn was formerly affiliated with the Ohio State Agricultural Experiment 
Station, at wooster. 
E. R. Yan Leeuwen recently conferred with the citizensof Langhorne, 
Pa., who are interested in the protection of their garden plants and shrubs 
from attacks of the Japanese beetle. Possible contmol measures were discussed. 
L. B. Smith recently attended a meeting of the Executive Cormittee of 
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the Taster Plant Board in New York City, relative to quarantine matters. 
A quarantine office has been opened at No. 2000 Bronx Streey, West 
Farms, New Yorlc Citye 
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