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FOREST. INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
On December 1 James A. Beal, in-charge of forest insect work at the 
Bent Creek Laboratory, Pisgah National Forest, near Asheville, N. C., ar- 
rived in Washington to confer with various members of the branch on certain 
aspects of the southern pine beetle situation in the South. 
Dr. T, E. Snyder presented a paper at the scientific: meetings ats 
Philadelphia, embogtying a plea for the modification of building regulations 
with a view to Ey cen ee aes, by termites, 
MacAloney, of this office, stationed at Amherst, Mass., and 
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‘working in New England on the white pine weevil, attended the Philadelphia 
meetings to represent the Division of Forest Insect Investigations at a con- 
ference on the white pine weevil, held by the forest entomologists and fores- 
tea «ed s M. Swaine, Associate Dominion Entomologist, and in charge of 
forest insect infestations in the Dominion of Canada, and Ralph Hopping, of 
the Forest Insect Branch of the Dominion of Canada, arrived in Washington 
near the end of December to sperd about a week studying cerambycid types in 
the Casey collection and conferring with the forest insect specialists. 
Dr, S. A. Graham, Professor of Forest Entomology in the University of 
Minnesota, and agent of this Division in charge of forest insect work in the 
Lake States, and of investigatioris of the pine tip-moth at Halsey, Nebr.,. 
came to Washington in the last week of December for a conference of several 
days on forest insect work, 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Sanior Entomologist, in Charge 
Recent visitors at the Arlington, Mass., Laboratory included Dr. 
Mohammed Kamal, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt, and S. F, 
Potts and Dwight F. Barnes, of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory. 
Walter Carter, in charge of investigations on the sugar beet leaf- 
hopper, located at Toppenish, Wash., visited the Alfalfa Weevil Laboratory 
at Salt Lake City on led rell ea Lee 
Geo. I. Reeves, in ee of the Salt Lake oe, Laboratory, spent 
December 13 and 14 at Ames, Iowa, in consultation with Prof. Carl J. Drake, 
of the Iowa State College of Agriculture, regarding the spread of the al- 
falfa weevil, and addressed the faculty and advanced students of the Depart- 
ment of Zoology at that BOLLE ES : 
