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J. E. Graf and N. F. Howard of the Birmingham, Ala., office at- 
tended the meeting of the Cotton States' Entomologists at Atlanta, Ga., 
during the latter part of February. 
J. R. Douglass, scientific assistant, on the foree of N. F. Howard. 
Birmingham, fla., has resigned to take up vocational training in entomology 
at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Troy Thompson, who for a number of years has been employed on 
county agent work in Mississippi, has been apvointed as temporary field 
assistant on the force of KE. L. Cockerham, Biloxi, Miss., and has been 
stationed at Van Cleave, Miss., to assist in the eradication of the sweet- 
potato weevil in that Vicinity. 
Otto D. Link, who was employed with this branch during the season 
of 1918 and 1919 as inspector, has teen temporarily appointed as field 
assistant on the force of B. L. Boyden, Daytona, Fla., and has been sta- 
tionei at Macclenny, Wla., to assist in the eradication of the sweet-potato 
weevil in that vicinity. 
W. BE. Hinds, entomologist of the Alabama Experiment Station, Auburn, 
Ala., visited the Bureau Guriug the latter part of February. . 
L. W, Brannon, D. M. Dowdell, Jr., and H. B. Lancaster have received 
probationary appointments as Junior entomologists. They were formerly em- 
ployed in the capacity of field assistants on the force of N. F. Howard, 
specialist in charge of research, Mexican vean beetle, Birmingham, Ala. 
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Albertson, G. W. A morphological study and comparison of the mouth parts 
of some Hymenoptera. 9 tv. Washington, D. C., 1921. (Disserta~ 
tion submitted to the faculty of sciences of the Catholic Uni- 
versity of America.) 
Bouvier, E. L, The psychic life of insects. Translated by L. 0. Howard. 
3({ p., illus. New York, The Century Co., 1922. 
Boving, A. G. The larvee and pupae of the social beetles Coccidotropms 
socialis (Schwarz and Barber) ani Tunausibius wheeleri (Schwarz and 
Barber) with remarks on the taxonomy of the family Cucujidae. 
Zoologica (N. Y. Zool. Soc.), v. 3, no. 7, p. 197-224, illus. 1921. 
Buchanan, R. EB, Agricultural and industrial bacteriology. 408 p. 8°. 
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