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extensively advertised in the fabric trade by the Process Cheinicals, 
Incorporated, of New York City. ‘The Process Chemicals is claimed to 
be @ reorganization of the old Moth Proof Products Corporation. The 
‘process, having arsenic as a basis for its effectiveness, is called 
ervex," 
; Perez Simmons has submitted for publication a professional paper 
entitled "The Cheese Skipper as a Pest on Cured Meats." The manuscript 
contains 125 pages and many new data and fills a real need, 
A, 0. Larson gave an illustrated address on bean weevils before 
_ the bean growers of Chino, Calif., on March Eve 
C, K, Fisher, a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 
has been appointed junior entcmologist, effective March 1, and hag 
been assigned to Alhambra, Calif., where he will assist A. 0. Larson, 
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y 
: Dr. Back recently spent a day at the Navy Supply Base at Brooklyn, 
Ne. Y., at the request of the Navy. A heavy infestation by clothes moths 
in shoe brushes, caps, flags, and paint brushes was the cause this time 
_ for cooperation between the bureau and the Navy. 
Prof. C. V. Piper, on his recent trip to the Canal Zone, collected 
leguminous material from which bruchids are being reared by Miss Marion 
Van Horn, 
Dr, Back spent the second week of March in southern Georgia and 
florida with S. E, McClendon and B. A. Vaughan, who are engaged in corn 
weevil investigations. 
“LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
New Books 
Brumpt, Emile, Precis de parasitologie... 3-ed... Paris, Masson e* Cie, 
Pe 3) Le1b\p., iliue., 5.01, 
Ck le, Estacion de patolojia vejetal. Funjicidas e insecticidas mas 
usados para combatir las enfermedades de las plantas. 6.ed,. 
Santiago de Chile, Imprenta y Libreria "Arte y Letras," 1922. 19 p, 
Slliott, E. A. Monograph of the hymenopterous family Stephanidae, In 
Proc. Zool-Soc. London, 1922, pt. 3, p. 705—831, illus. Sept., 1922. 
ist of serials currently received in the Library of the U. S, Department 
of Agriculture exclusive of U. 5. Government publications and 
publications of the State agricultural colleges and experiment 
stations... arranged by title, by subject and by region, January 
1, 1922. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1922, 358 p, 
(U. S. Dept. of Agr. Dept. Circular No, 187.) 

