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the extensive investigations conducted at the Japanese Beetle laboratory at 
Riverton, N. J. Mr. Lane's princival vork during the coming season will be. 
studies of the wireworms in the Yakima Valley. , 
C. H. Gable, of the San Antonio, Tex., laboratory, conducted a scouting 
expedition during the week of February 2 for the purpose of determining the 
grasshopper situation in Browm and McCulloch Counties. He found that although 
reports had been circulated to the effect that most of the eggs had been 
killed, more than 90 per cent of them were still in hatchable condition, and 
there were strong indications of serious trouble in that part of the State 
again this year. Later reports regarding the grasshopper situation in 
northern Texas are of a similar character. 
Philip Iuginbill and George G. Ainslie, of Columbia, S. C., and 
Knoxville, Tenn., respectively, attended the meeting of the Cotton States 
Entomologists at Atlanta, Ga., during the week of February 2. They report 
an attendance of at least one hundred persons and the presentation of many 
interesting vapers, most of which dealt with work on the boll weevil, pecan 
insects, and peach insects; but the contacts which they were able to make 
at this meeting were most advantageous to the work of this division. 
W. A. Baker, for several years located at the San Antonio station 
as assistant to Mr. Gable, was transferred to Dallas, Tex., January el, 
1925, where he will take charge of a substation and have as his main project 
the investigations of the green bug and grasshoppers affecting cereal and 
forage crops. Through the kindness of F. C. Bishopp Mr. Baker has been able 
to locate quarters at Mr. Bishoop's laboratory and will have the advantage 
of association with Mr. Bishopp and his staff, In connection with his new 
duties Mr. Baker made a trip to Amarillo, Tex., in the week of February eu; 
to investigate grasshoover and green bug conditions in northern and western 
Texas. Very few green bugs were found, and it is believed that there is no 
danger of an outbreak there during the coming spring. 
The sudden death on February 12 of P. R. Myers, in charge of the Carlisle, 
Pa., field station, vas a severe shock to his numerous friends throughout the 
Bureau. Mr. Myers was seized with seotic penumonia on February 5 and was 
desperately ill from the very first. He had just completed a very imoortant 
manuscript dealing with the entire group of parasites affecting the Hessian 
fly. It is believed that his extreme devotion to duty and his strenuous 
labors in connection with this manuscript may have contributed to the 
illness which caused his death. Mr. Myers was a man of most lovable character 
and will be greatly missed. His wor’ during the last few years had become 
increasingly valuable, and the loss of his services to the Bureau at this 
time is a most severe blow. A sketch of his life and work will be published g 
in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. The funeral 
services of Mr. Myers Were held on February 16, and vere attended by Ww. Be 
Walton, Entomologist Acting in Charge of the Cereal and Forage Insect Inves- 
tigations, who represented the Bureau and Mr. Myers's Washington friends. 
