GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
‘A. F. Burgess, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
S. S:. Crossman. spent January 7 and & with Bureau officials in Wash- 
ington, D. C.,. discussing problems connected with the investigations of the 
gipsy moth. 
At meetings held in Boston in January by the Massachusetts Tree 
Wardens and Foresters Association, A. F. Burgess spoke in regard to the pres- 
ent status of the gipsy and brown-tail moths. 
On February 11, at Albany, N. Y., A. F. Burgess, S. S. Crosemaaeee 
H. L. Blaisdell attended a meeting called by H. L. McIntyre, of the New York 
State Conservation ‘Commission, to consider plans for the coming season in the 
glipsy moth campaign. 
R. T. Webber was in Washington during the week of February 7, where- 
he attended to'various details in arranging for his foreign investigations. 
He Sailed on the S. S. George Washington on February 19 for Cherbourg, France. 
After consultation with entomologists and government officials in France and 
several other European countries he will proceed to Hungary, to spend a short 
time with C. F. W. Muesebeck and R. C. Brom, at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory — 
in Budapest, arranging to obtain parasites in Hungary for shipment to Melrose 
Highlands, Mass. He will then investigate the gipsy moth conditions in Italy, - 
northern France, and Spain, for the purpose of sending natural enemies of 
this insect to the United States, 
On February’8 H. F. Barnes,, research scholar of the Ministry of Agri- 
culture, London, England, visited the Gipsy Moth Laboratory at Metres High- 
lands, Mass. 
On February 28 several members of the gipsy moth force attended the 
funeral services of the late R. I. Smith, of the Federal Horticultural Board, 
at’ Braintree, Mass. Pr. 
TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL PLANT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS’ . 
A. @. Baker, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
On February 10 BE. A. McGregor appeared before a meeting of mer- Bae 
chants and orange Browne of Lindsay, Calif., and ‘vicinity, and addressed 
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them on the subject of a) citrus thrips. The meeting was well attended 
and many questions were asked at its conclusion. 
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