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Messrs, Street, Wolcott, Olney, and Thorne, of the New York Agri- 
cultural Committee of the National Canners Association, visited the 
Geneva, N. Y., laboratory-in the latter part of August, and discussed the 
Mexican bean beetle insecticide tests with Rodney Cecil. 
R. E. Campbell, of Alhambra, Calif., reports that Dr. Demetrio D. 
de Torres, Agricultural Enzinser, of the National Museum of Natural Sci- 
ences, Madrid, Spain, visited his laboratory in the early part of August. 
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James Zetek, of the field station at Ancon, Canal Zone, recently 
spent several weeks in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, investigating 
conditions with respect to possible infestation by the Mexican fruit 
worm. in the last week in August he left for Tampico, Mexico, to deter- 
mine the fitness of this locality as a site for a research laboratory on 
the fruit worm, After visiting Tampico he will return to his laboratory 
in. the Canal Zone. 
Miss B, M. Broadbent left Washington on August 2O for Santa 
Cruz, Calif., where she will spend some time assisting Dr. Cole in his 
‘work on bulb pests. She will then proceed to New Orleans, where she will 
conduct studies on ornamentals at the laboratory there, 
About the middle of August Dr. C. A. Weigel visited the Long 
Island bulb region and inaugurated a number of experiments on hot-water 
sterilization of narcissus bulbs. 
During the second week in August Dr. Bliss, of the New Orleans 
laboratory, made a trip through the Gulf region, stopping at Bay St. 
Louis,. Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., in the interest of the camphor scale 
investigations. He improved this opportunity to visit the men at the 
Truck Crop laboratories at Gulfport and Biloxi. 
F. D, Holdaway, of Australia, and Demetrio Delgado de Torres y 
de Quiros, of Madrid, Spain, were visitors at the New Orleans laboratory 
in August. 
H. H. Bliss, of Sandusky, Ohio, has been given a temporary ap~ 
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pointment as Field Assistant at the New Orleans laboratory for the latter 
part of the summer. ; 
