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and visualize grasshopper conditions in a large, regional way and to form 
a@ basis for annual record of such conditions from year to year. Those 
attending the conference were: Norman Criddle ana A. V. Mitchener of 
Manitoba, H. L. Seamans of Alberta; A. L. Strand, representing Montana; 
Prof. A. G. Ruggles, revresenting Minnesota; Prof. R. L. Tebster of North 
Dakota; and W. R. Walton, Stewart Lockwood, Aifred Eastgate, and C. N. 
Ainslie, of the Bureau of Entomology. It was decided te attempt to hold 
& similar conference in Winnipeg about the same time next year, as the 
results of the conference were considered to be of the utmost value. 

FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Queintance, Entomologist in Charge 
H. A. Jaynes, @ graduate of the Connecticut Agricultural College, 
has been appointed junior entomologist and assigned to duty at Riverton, 
N. J., in commection with the Japanese beetle project. 
J. A. Harris, a graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural College, 
has been appointed field assistant and assigned to duty at Fort Valley, 
Ga., in connection with investigations of the plum cureulio and other 
peach insects. 
Boh: Link, formerly employed in the Bureau of Entomology, has been 
appointed field assistant and assigned to duty in connection with citrus 
fruit insect investigations at Orlando, Fla. 
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LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
New Books 
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Stuttgart, Kosmos Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, 1917. 
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Southern California Acad. Sci., Los Angeles, v. 21, pt. 1, pn. Heli, 
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Hempel, Adolph. Algunas especies novas de hemipteros da familia 
Aleyrodidae, sub-familia Alevrodinae. 10 ». Sao Paulo, Imprensa 
methodista, March 15, 1922. (Notas preliminares editadas pela 
redaccao da Revista de Museu Paulista, v. 2, fasc. 1.) 
