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under way by the Bureau office at Birmingham, Ala., while 0. Z. Smiths 
field assistant, conducted the party over a portion of the infested dis- 
trict for a field study of the pest. 

FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. Le Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
Dwight Isely, who has been in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at 
Bentonville, Ark-, has resigned from the Bureau to accept the position of 
associate professor of entomology at the University of Arkansas at 
Fayetteville. 
A. J. Ackerman, who has been in charge of the arsenical spray residue 
work at Sacramento, Calif., will complete his investigations at the close of 
the present season, and it is planned to return him to Bentonville, Arkey 
to take charge of the Bureau's laboratory at that place. 

SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Webb, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
W. W. Porter, a graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural College, has 
been appointed a scientific assistant, and is stationed at Crowley, Lae» 
where he is studying rice insects in cooperation with the Louisiana Rice 
Experiment Station. 
T. C, Barber has begun work on cactus insects in addition to his. 
work on sugar-cane insectse 
T. E. Holloway has been making weekly trips to Crowley, Lae, in 
connection with rice insect work. Mr. Holloway and Mr. Barber recently 
visited the laboratory at Uvalde, Tex-, where J. C. Hamlin is collecting 
cactus insects for the Australian Government. 
Geo. N. Wolcott, entomologist of the Insular Experiment Station in. 
Porto Rico, and a collaborator of the Bureau, has completed an excellent 
paper on the control of the sugar cane moth borer in Porto Ricos Dre 
Wolcott shows that tropical conditions make the problem of control aiffer- 
ent in Porto Rico from that of control in Lotiisianae : 
R. H. Van Zwaluwenburg, who recently resigned from the Bureau to 
take a position as entomologist with the United Sugars Companies. of 
Sinaloa, Mexico, stopped for a day in New Orleans for a visit to the sugar- 
cane insect laboratory at Audubon Parke 
The following men have been appointed scientific assistants and 
assigned to the Boil Weevil Laboratory at Tallulah, La- : Roland Cowart, 
Richard V- Hood, L. R. Lyle, Geoe B. Ray, Geos Le Smith, We A. Stevenson, 
Adolph Thomae, V. V. Williams. 
