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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Among the recent visitors to the Arlington, Mass., corn borer laboratory 
were Dr. Stanislaw P. Minkiewicz, of the Government Institute for Agricultural 
Research, Pulawy, Poland; Dr. F. G. Spruijt, of the Landboiew looses cht. aa 
geningen, Holland; Dr. F. G. Holdaway and Stanley Garthside, of the Australian 
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; C, R. Phipps and C. A. Crooks, 
of the University of Maine; Prof. Roger C. Smith, of the Kansas State Agricul- 
tural College; and J. L. King and Dr. H. W. Allen, of the Japanese Beetle Labo- 
ratory. 
Recent additions to the corn borer investigational staff at Arlington, 
Mass., include Dr. C. H, Batchelder and BE. S. Mack, formerly on the staff of 
the University of Maine; D, D. Questel, a recent graduate of the University of 
Iilinois; H. G. Guy, of the University of Florida; R. A. Biron, a recent graduate 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural College; James Wallace, of Harvard University; 
M. J. Sawyer, of Norwich University; and R. G. Lassiter, a recent graduate of — 
Guilford College, N. c. 
In the week of June 13 R. G. Ellis, of the Arlington, Mass., Laboratory, 
conveyed a shipment of imported corn borer parasites from Arlington to Sandusky, 
Ohio, for liberation in the corn borer area there. A similar consignment of 
parasites was conveyed from Arlington to Monroe and Erie, Mich., by W. A, Baker, 
R. M. Jones, of the University of Florida, has been assigned temporarily 
to the Sandusky, Ohio, corn borer laboratory. 
A. E, Pillsbury, a recent graduate of the University of New Hampshire, has 
been appointed Junior Entomolczist and assigned to the Silver Creek, N. Y., corn 
borer laboratory. L. W. Zeigler, of the University of Florida, has been assigned 
temporarily to the same laboratory. 
P, L. Simanton has been appointed Associate Entomologist, for duty at the 
Monroe, Mich,, corn borer laboratory. 
J. W. Frankenfeld, a recent graduate of the University of Illinois, has 
been appointed Junior Entomologist and assigned to the Sandusky, Ohio, laboratory. 
G. A. Ficht, of the Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station, is located at 
the Monroe, Mich., corn borer laboratory, where he is associated with Dr. Luginbil’ 
in biological studies of the corn borer. 
On June 22 Dr. CG. 4H, Batchelder, of the Arlington, Mass., laboratory, was 
in conference with Director Crocker and Doctors Arthur, Vincent, and Hartzel, of 
the Boyce-Thompson Institute of Plant Research, at Yonkers, N. Y., relative to the 
cooperative project between the Institute and the Bureau. 
