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| JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren’ B. smith, Entomologist, in: Charge: 
L. B. Parker left Riverton on June 7 for the Pacific coast, and will 
board ship at San Francisco for the Orient. With the exception, of a possible 
brief stop in Japan, to confer with T. R. Gardner, formerly stationed at the 
Riverton Laboratory, he will go direct’ to Calcutta. The objective point on. 
Mr. Parker*s journey is Shillong, capital of the province of Assam, in the 
northeastern part of India, From Calcutta’ to- Shillong the distance is some 
five hundred miles. For the present, headquarters will be located at this 
place, where Mr..Parker will join C. P. Clausen, who has already spent five 
years in the far east doing similar work, and together they will search for 
parasites of the lk ite beetle, to Me introduced into the United States. 
Charles H. Hadley! Director, selagh aeek ‘Bureau of Plant Industry, 
and T, L. Guyton and H. B; Kirk, Entomologists, of amma Pag, were re~ 
cent visitors ai. the Japanese Beetle Laboratory. : 
James B, Cronin,.of the American Cyanamid Gompany, ; recently spent a 
_ day at the Laboratory. 
Dr, A. Ti. Quaintance, Associate Chief, Bureau of Entomology, Dr. T. 
. Js Headlee, State Ent omologist of New Jersey, and C. H. ‘Hadley, Pennsylvania 
Bureau of Plant Industry, members of the Advisory Committee on the Japanese 
Beetle Project, met recently at Riverton ‘to discuss matters of policy relating 
to this project. . 
: The following men are temporarily employed at the Japanese Beetle 
Laboratory: CG. A. Clark, BE. E. Atwood, and E, G. Lundberg, Connecticut 
State College; E. Rivney, C. As Crooks, and F, E. Baker, Massachusetts 
Agricultural College; A. T. Hawkinson, Rutgers University; VW. E. Jordan, 
Cornell University; Ons ile McDonnell, Wesleyan University; I. L. Hunt, 
Ke Be Rogers, and H.: W. Coward, Poimeee ys of St a hes Laat 
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LIBRARY 
Nabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
Alfonsus, Alois. 
| Die bienenweide, ihre vermehrung und ausnitzung. Stuttgart, 
Ulmer, 1923. 161 pp. 
Blake, E. G 
The protection’ of buildings against vermin, with a comprehensive 
description of- the most effective methods that can be adopted for 
the extermination of rats, mice and various insects. London, C. 
Lockwood & Son, whiaes eee 85. PP. ac ae . 
