JAPANESE BEBTLE INVESTIGATIONS 
SDOPeacD, Smet, SRE ieee in Charge 
Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, recently visited the 
Japanese Beetle Laboratory, at Riverton, N. J., where he spent two days in 
conference with members of the laboratory staff. Previous to his stop at 
Riverton, Dr. Gibson attended the meeting of the New eokee Mosquito Exter- 
mination Association at 3 Atlantic City. 
T. R. Gardner and H. A. Jaynes were in Washington February 15 to 
he & where they conferred with Dr, A. L. Quaintance regarding the work of the 
Bureau in the Orient relative to parasites of the Japanese beetle. Mr. 
Gardner recently returned from Japan, where for three years he had carried 
On investigations relating to parasites of the Japanese beetle, and had 
shipped many parasites of that insect to the laboratory at Riverton, He ex- 
pects to return to Japan in a few weeks to resume this work for another period 
7 of three years. Mr. Jaynes has also recently returned from foreign service, 
having spent the last three years in China, engaged in work on parasites of 
| the Japanese beetle. On his trip. back to this country he stopped for two 
weeks in England, where he examined type specimens of some of the parasitic 
wasps at the British Museum. 

Dr. Henry ¥ Fox visited the Boyce-Thompson Institute, Yonkers, N. Y., 
in February: to inspect equipment and to consult with specialists in regard 
to contemplated lines of investigation. 
‘In February E. A. Richnond and F. W. Metzger visited the plant of 
the B. T. Bush Co,, at Delawanna, N. J., spending a day in conference with 
Dr. H. C. Kung and Dr. Martin Szamatolski regarding the source of supply 
and the manufacture of aromatic chemicals. 
On February Los Re Van Leeuwen addressed the Century Club of Phila- 
delphia on "Control measures for the Japanese beetle." : 
TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
oF 2. Graf, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Bhd) iy Graf left Washington on February 3 to attend a conference in 
connection with the sugar-beet leafhopper problem at Ogden, Utah, February 
\.9t+010. From here he proceeded to the Pacific Coast, where he conferred 
) with State officials and officials in charge of Bureau laboratories. Mr. 
Graf expects to return to Washington in the early part of March via the 
South, where he will visit a few of the Gulf Coast laboratories. 
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