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John Stuart, Pinckney, a graduate of Clemson College, Se Ce, has been 
appointed field assistant and assigned to the Wichita, Kanse, laboratory 
for duty on the Hessian fly investigations under J. R. Hortone Mre 
Pinckney reported for duty July 22.6 
F ASS ASCCEARAEAASEAASC ARS 
TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. He. Chittenden, Entomologist in Charges 
‘D- M. Dowdell, jre, and M. P. Foshee have been appointed to act 
as district inspectors in connection with new infestations of the 
Mexican bean beetles 
F. M. Hull has been appointed to assist M. M. High, in charge of 
the laboratory at Kingsville, Texe, in experimental work on the 
sweet=potato weevil and truck-crop insects in the Rio Grande Valleye 
Je E» Graf, in charge of field wrork in Mexican bean beetle control 
at Birmingham, Alae, and Be Le Boyden, in charge of sweet=potato 
weevil eradication in Florida, visited Washington for the purpose 
of conferring with Bureau officials regarding the work which they have 
been conducting during the past few seasons, discussing the results 
attained, and mapping out their plan of work for the coming seasone 
} E. M. Searls has been transferred from the correborer work in 
Massachusetts to Madison, Wise, to assist J. E. Dudley, jrv» in the 
investigation of. the potato leafhopper and the striped cucumber beetles 
J. We McGlamery has been appointed to the position of scientific 
assistant in entomology, to assist B. Le Boyden in the sweet~potato 
weevil eradication work in Floridae 
R. H. Turner and W. Pe Whitlock have been appointed as field assis=- 
tants in Mexican bean beetle control, to conduct scouting in the 
infested territorye 
Prof. He F. Wickham of Iowa State University has received a tem= 
porary appointment with this office for the purpose of making a trip 
+o Mexico the latter part of July to secure parasites and other natural 
enemies of the ladybirds of the genus Epilachna for introduction into 
the region infested by the Mexican bean beetle in the southeastern 
States.e Professor Wickham is well known to entomologists as a 
collector and has had considerable experience with the Coleoptera of 
southern Mexicos He will enter Mexico at Vera Cruz and work in 
southern Mexico and Guatemala during his engagement with the Bureau 
of Entomology. M- M. High will accompany Professor Wickham on this 
investigation and will also devote some time to the natural enemies 
of the Colorado potato beetle and related species of Leptinotarsas 
many of which inhabit the same regions 4s Epilact.nae A looksout will 
be kept for natural enemies of the sweet=potato weevile If anything 
promising is found along this line which could be safely introduced 
into the United States for the repression of these three pests, Mre 
High will be able to continue this work when Professor Wickham is 

