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GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F. Burgess, Senior Entomologist, im Charge 
Prof. H. A. Ballou, of the West India Agricultural College, Trinidad, 
West Indies, and H. L. Frost, of Arlington, Mass., were recent visitors at 
the Gipsy Moth Laboratory. 
W. N. Keenan, of Ottawa, an Entomologist of the Canadian Department 
of Agriculture, and Charles Ross, of Ottawa, of the Canadian Department of 
Trade and Commerce, spent several days during the first part of July at 
Melrose and different parts of Massachusetts in preparing a motion 
picture of the Gipsy Moth. 
During the week of July 6 a'trip of inspection was made over a large : 
part of the barrier zone by J, T. Ashworth, H. L. Blaisdell, W. E. Britton, 
A. F. Burgess, E. P. Felt, C. H. Hadley, T. J. Headlee, H. L. McIntyre, 
S. Phillips, and H. H. York. 
R. C. Brown, a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, and 
H. M. Tietz, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, have 
received appointments as Junior Entomologists, effective August 1, and will 
be stationed at the Melrose Laboratory. Mr. Tietz has had four years of 
graduate work at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Columbia 
University, receiving from the farmer the degree of master of science, 
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STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, Entomologist, in Charge 
Dr. E. &. Back has recently returned from a trip to the Pacific 
coast, where he visited the Bean Weevil Laboratory at Alhambra, Calif., 
and the Dried Fruit Insect Laboratory at Fresno, Calif., for consulta- 
tion with the men in charge of the various phases of the work, While in 
the West he attended the summer meeting of the Pacific Slope Branch 
of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, at Portland, Oreg. 
. The Dried Fruit Insect Laboratory, Fresno, Calif,, was recently 
moved from 1584 Ferger Avenue to 712 Elizabeth Street. 
J. C. Hamlin, in charge of the Dried Fruit Insect Laboratory at 
Fresno, Calif., reports that the following persons recently visited the 
Laboratory: A. P. Dodd, BE. Mortensen, and H. Barnette, of the American 
Division of the Australian Commonwealth Prickly-pear Board; Hlmer 
Snyder, of the Department's Horticultural Investigations; and W. B. 
Camp, of the United States Cotton Field Station at Shafter, Calif. 
