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insect collections at the Universities of Missouri and Kansas, the Kensas State | 
Agricultural College, and the Warren Knaus collection of Coleoptera at McPherson, | 
but he also had an opportunity to do considerable collecting in the field. He ~ 
was accompanied on some of the collecting trips by Dr. William Hayes, of the | 
Kansas State Agricultural College, and Warren Knaus, of McPherson, Kansas. 
Mr. J. R. Horton, Entomologist in Charge of the Wichita, Kansas, labora- 
tory, and A. F. Satterthwait, Entomologist in Charge of the Webster Groves, Mo., 
laboratory, attended the meeting of entomologists and agriculturists who met at 
Kansas City, Mo., in May to discuss and put into operation methods of control 
for chinch bugs and the Hessian fly in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. 
An extensive corn borer burning and clean-up campaign was conducted dur-— | 
ing May along the water front and vacant lots of Brooklyn. R. A. Vickery under” 
_ the direction of Mr. Worthley was in charge of the field work. y 
George A. Dean, Entomologist in charge of Cereal and Forage Insect In- 
vestigations, spent the period from June 2 to June 8 at the field laboratories 
located at Charlottesville, Va., Columbia, S. C., and Knoxville, Tenn. He also 
visited the South Carolina Agricultural College at Clemson and the University 
of Tennessee at Knoxville. 
W. B. Turner, Junior Entomologist at the Sacramento, California, labora-~ 
tory, died June 11, 1924. Mr. Turner, who has been with the Bureau since Janu- 
ary, 1910, was a faithful worker. His generosity to and thoughtfulness for | 
those with whom he came in contact will be sadly missed by all who knew hin. 
C. M. Packard, L. P. Rockwood, T. R. Chamberlin, and S. J. Snow attended 
and presented papers at the meetings of the Pacific Slope Branch of the American 
Association of Economic Entomologists held at Leland Stanford Jr. University, 
June 25-28. 
Cecil ©. Wilson, graduate student in entomology at the Kansas State Agri- | 
cultural College, has been appointed Junior Entomologist to work under the di- | 
rection of C. UM. Packard, Entomologist in Charge of the Sacramento, Calif., 
laboratory. Mr. Wilson reported for duty June 28. 
J. S. Wade, Associate Entomologist of the Division of Cereal and Forage — 
Insect Investigations, left June 26 for a few days vacation in the vicinity of 2 
Boston and Cape Cod, Mass. i 
P. R. Myers, Entomologist in Charge of the Carlisle, Pa., laboratory, 
opens the 23d. and 24th of June inspecting wheat seeding plots at Greensboro, 
N. C. On his return to Carlisle he stopped at Washington to confer with the 
entomologists of the Museum and the Division of Cereal and Forage Insect In- 
vestigations. 
