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COTTON INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
Manuel Alcazar, Inspector de Plagas, Arduana, Juarez, Mexico, F. A. 
Fenton, El Paso, Tex., T. P. Cassidy, Tucson, Ariz., and R. E. McDonald, 
State Entomologist, Austin, Tex., spent several days at Tallulah early in 
January in conference with B. R. Coad regarding work on the pink bollworm 
in the Southwest and in Mexico. 
S. H. McCrory, Chief of the Division of Agricultural Engineering, 
Bureau of Public Roads, spent January 5 at Tallulah in conference with B. 
R. Coad about cooperative projects on control of the pink bollworm in the 
southwest. 
Dr. W. E. Hinds, Extension Entomologist, Baton Rouge, La., spent 
January 22 at Tallulah in conference with B. R. Coad. | 
U. C. Loftin, of the Tlahualilo Company of Tlahualilo, spuranae | 
Mexico, was a visitor at Tallulah January 23 and 24. Mr. Loftin was greatly 
interested in the work of the field laboratory there, and especially in the | 
prospects for eradication and control of the pink bollworm in Mexico and 
the United States. 
V. V. Williams, Assistant Entomologist, engaged for the past two 
years in investigation of the Bucculatrix in the vicinity of Calexico, 
Calif., resigned on January 31 to engage in commercial cotton growing in 
Arizona. 
W. G. Clark, Assistant Chemist in the field laboratory at Tallulah, 
has resigned, effective January Sl. 
C. S. Rude, Extension Entomologist, Oklahoma State College of Agri- | 
culture, was a visitor at Tallulah on January 18, for conference with Mr. 
Coad on cooperative work in Oklahoma. | 
INSECT PEST SURVEY 
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge 
Dr. F. M. Wadley has accepted an appointment with the Insect Pest 
Survey, effective January 1, 1929. Dr. Wadley is a recent graduate of the 
University of Minnesota, and will devote part of his time to statistical 
work in connection with the records of the Insect Pest Survey. 
J. A. Hyslop and Dr. Wadley attended the annual meeting of the Amer— 
ican Association for the Advancement of Science, held in New York City in 
and after holiday week. 
Immediately after the recent scientific meetings in New York Prof. 
D. M. DeLong, of Ohio State University, visited the Insect Pest Survey, to 
clear up certain matters relative to the common names being used for certain 
jassids. 
