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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
H. G. Butler, Assistant Entomologist, who is associated with 
Dr. P. M. Gilmer in investigations of apple insects at Wichita, Kans., 
attended the sixth annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference of 
Entomologists, held at Pinegree Park, Colo., August 19 to 24. 
0. I. Snapp, Entomologist in charge of the field laboratory at 
Fort Valley, Ga., for the study of peach insects, visited Washington 
during the week of August 20 to discuss plans of work for the coming 
season. He will shortly return to Fort Valley. 
Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
On August 8 H. K. Plank, of Cuba, and Dr. T. L. Guyton, of Harris— 
burg, Pa., visited the Laboratory to confer with members of the parasite 
division concerning biological control. 
On August 26 seventeen members of the Philadelphia Horticultural 
Society visited the Laboratory. The work of the three major divisions 
of it was explained to them, E. R. Van Leeuwen telling them about beetle 
insecticides, J. K. Holloway about parasites, and Max Osburn about soil 
insecticides. 
On August 26, also, Dr. Shiro Tashiro, Professor of Biochemistry, 
University of Cincinnati, Ohio, visited the Laboratory. 
On August 28, E. J. Hambleton, of the School of Agriculture, 
Vigosa, Minas Geraes, Brazil, spent the afternoon at the Laboratory. 
George Edward Spencer, Associate Entomologist engaged in physio-—- 
logical work at the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory, died August 29, shortly 
after un operation for cancer of the stomach. Mr. Spencer had been as— 
sociated with the work of this laboratory for the last seven years. He 
is survived by a wife and three young children. 
The Oriental Peach Moth Laboratory at Moorestown, N. J., is co- 
operating with the field laboratory at Vincennes, Ind., and the State 
entomological services of Indiana and Connecticut, in making experimental 
liberations of Macrocentrus ancylivora in peach districts newly infested 
with the oriental peach moth. Over 3,000 adult parasites have been 
shipped to these points, and have arrived at their destination in good 
condition, with low mortality in transit 

