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more important truck-crop insects. Preliminary investigations will cover tests 
with penne tic aromatic chemicals in the hope that compounds of immediate use 
in practical insect control may be determined, 
















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H, L. Wertherby, for a number of summers connected with Truck-Crop 
| Insect investigations as special field assistant, has received temporary 
appointment to assist N. F, Howard in experiments against the Mexican bean 
beetle at Birmingham, Ala, . 
Guy Fletcher has been temporarily appointed junior entomologist 
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to assist ©, E, Smith at Baton Rouge, La., in TruckCrop Insect Investigations, 
W. V, Reed, I, J. Condit, and G. E. Riley, for a number of years 
connected with this Bureau as collaborators, are now engaged in commercial 
work, 
We W, Porter, agent, engaged in eradication of the sweetepotato 
weevil in Mississippi in cooveration with the State Plant Board, has resigned. 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E, F, Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
The Maryland State Beekecpers! Association will hold their regular 
midsummer meeting at tne Bee Culture Laboratory, Somerset, Md., on Saturday 
afternoon, July 28, All who are interested are invited to attend. 

FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
T, E, Snyder, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
; Beginning July 1, Dr. A. D. Hopkins, Forest Entomologist in Charge 
since July 1, 1902, is to devote all of his time to research in connection 
with bioclimatics. 
Dr. Fe. C. Craighead, formerly engaged in Forest Insect Investigations, 
who has been doing forest insect work in Canada, is to assume duties as 
Forest Entomologist in Charge in September or October of this year. 
On July 1, S. A. Rohwer was transferred from the Forest Insect 
Investigations to the miscellaneous fund for duty in the U.. S. National Museum, 
In response to a request from the National Park Service, J. C. Evenden. 
left the Forest Insect Field Station at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, June 6, to 
make an examination of serious defoliation apparently caused by the spruce 
