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Visitors at the: camphor-scale laboratory at New Orleans, Las, in March 
and April, ‘according to Hy» Kk, Plank, jin charge of the laboratory, included 
Franklin M. Jones, SMa in Peychidae, eee eae Liverview Rhea st Wilming elon, 
of the camphor and Bes scale ine ects; Dr, He] Le pe ran tte orf the 
Insular Experiment Station; Rio Piedr ras, P. Re, who called on: April 4; and 
Dr. As D. Imes, Intomolizist of the Rothamsted Experiment Station, Harpenden, 
England, who called on April 18. | | 
_.W. D. Whitcomb, for a number of years engaged in deciduous-fruit 
insect: investi eations, and more recently in camphor-scale investigations in 
New Orleans, has been transferred to corn-borer work at Arlington, Mass. 
E. J. Newcomer, of the Yakima, Wash., station, spent the week of 
April 20 in the iVenatchee, District. assisting the State Extension Service in 
a series of meetings to inform the fruit growers as to the best methods of 
controlling the codling moth, 
GF. Mozgnette has recently retarned from an. extended trip for the 
Federal Horticultural Board to Argentina, | and has resumed his work at his 
permanent | gpiedaret capes at itdami , eye 
During April - Dir Ais is Bonuses erate ‘the spent tie oot laboratory 
at Fort Valley, Ga., and the citrus<fruit-insect laboratory at Orlando, Fla., 
for consultation with-.the men in charge of. the various phases of the work, 
. Dr. Alvah Peterson, formerly Assistant Entomologist of the New Jersey 
Agricultural Experiment Station at New Brunswick, has been appointed Eato- 
mologist, and will be charged with the investigational work of the Pureau 
on the oriental fruit moth. He will establish headquarters at the Japanese 
beetle laboratory at Riverton, N. J... In addition, it is planned to carry 
out investigations of this insect in Ponnsy rivania, in Bly ody with the 
Pennsylvania State ses of Agriculture. 
FOREST-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
EF. Ce Craighead, Entomologist, in Charge 
Dr. eee spent ae ay days early in April at the Northeastern 
Forest Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass. Dr. Haven Metcalf, of the Burem 
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of Plant Industry, was also present, as well as several other specialists 
interested in northeastern forestry problems, . A tentative plan was cram 
up for entomological and pathological cooperation with this experiment station, 
The white-pine weevil will be the chief entomological problem undertaken by 
the Bureau. Through the efforts of Dr. R. T. Fisher, of Harvard University, 
$2,500 has been donated by Magsachusetts timberland ovners to assist in 
conducting these studies. 
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