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GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F, Burgess, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Qn December 11, 1926, D. M. Rogers, Assistant in Charge of the gipsy 
moth guarantine and inspection work, resigned from the service, Mr . Rogers 
has been associated with gipsy moth work for many years, having been employed 
by the State of Massachusetts before entering the Federal Service.. He was 
the first man appointed when the gipsy moth work was begun by the Bureau, 
July 1, 1906, and has had charge of quarantine and inspection work since 1913, 
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have gone to California, where Mr. Rogers hopes to carry 
out some experiments in plant breeding, a subject in which he is much inter~ 
ested. In Mr, Rogers' retirement the Bureau of Entomology has lost the serv- 
ices,of a capable and sincere official. His associates and many friends will 
miss his congenial personality and wish him success and Godspeed in his new 
enterprise, 
Dr. J. N. Summers, Associate Entomologist in the Bureau of Entomology, | 
who has been associated with the gipsy moth investigations since June, 1911; 
has been appointed to the position left vacant by the resignation of Mr. 
Rogers. 
Henry H. Richardson, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege, has recently been appointed Junior Entomologist to fill a vacancy at 
the gipsy moth laboratory, 
Dr. M. Kamal visited the gipsy moth laboratory on December 9 and 10, 
He has recently completed his studies in this country and is returning to 
Cairo, Egypt, where he will be employed by the Ministry of Agriculture, in 
the Division of Entomology. 
Dr. Carl Heinrich, of the Taxonomic Division of the Bureau, spent a 
short time in the last part of November and the first part of December exam 
ining the lepidopterous collections at the gipsy moth laboratory. 
A. F. Burgess, C. W. Collins, R. T. Webber, S. M. Dohanian, and D. F, 
Barnes, all employees of the Bureau of Entomology and connected with the 
gipsy moth investigations, attended the meetings of the American Association 
of Economic Entomologists at philadelphia in the last week of December.’ 
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LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
British museum (Nat. Hist.). Dept. of entomology. 
Guide to the exhibited series of insects. Hd. 4, 64 p. Printed 
by order of the Trustees, London, 1926, 
British mseum (Nat. Hist.). Dept. of zoology. 
A Synopsis of the families and genera of Nematoda, by H: A. Baylis 
sph Daubney, 277 p. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 
