a Ee 
Stuart L. O'Byrne has accepted a three months' appointment as Field 
Assistant at the field laboratory at Webstef Groves, Mo. 
avtiy Patch, in charge of the sublaboratory at Sandusky, Ohio, 
was in the Washington office on January 16 and 17 for consultation re- 
garding the preparation of a manuscript on the experimental determina- 
tion of damage by the corn borer. 
fF. F, Dicke has accepted a transfer from the corn-borer labor-— 
atory at Monroe, Mich., to the field laboratory at Charlottesville, Va., 
where he will assist in investigations of the jointworm. 
George G. Ainslie, of the field laboratory at West Lafayette, Ind., 
is spending several weeks in Washington, at the National Museum, working 
on the North American Crambidae. 
LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
Bainbridge, J. S. 
Home pests and their destruction. 94 p., illus. London, W. 
Heinemann, 1929. (References, p. 88-89.) 
Bondar, Gregorio. 
Insects damninhos e molestias da laranjeira no Brasil. 79 p., 
pl. (Bahia. Sec. da Agricultura, Industria, Comercio, Viacao e 
Obras Publicas. Boletim do Laboratorio de Pathologia Vegetal 
Num. 7.) 
Broadfoot, H. 
Advice to fruit growers, with a calendar of orchard work. 41 p.. 
illus. Sydney, Oct., 1929. (New South Wales Dept. Agr. Farm. 
Bul. No. 164.) 
Brolemann, H. W. 
Myriapodes recueillis au Bresil par M. Caullery. 37 p., illus. 
Paris, Au siége de la Société Zoologique de France, 1929. (Mém. 
pomaneodns trance, ty 29) Nol" 1" Dec. 20, L929.) 
The cattle tick pest and methods for its eradication. 352 p. Melbourne, 
H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1929. (Australia. Council for 
Scientific and Industrial Research. Pam. No. 12.) 
mood, (A. P.. 
The progress of biological control of prickly pear in Australia. 
44 p. Brisbane, A. J. Cumming, Government Printer, Oct., 1929. 
At head of title: Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board. 
Dognin, Paul. 
Hétérocéres nouveaux l'Amérique du Sud... fasc. 1-25. 
Rennes, Imprimerie Oberthur, 1910-19235. (Wanting: fasc. 18.) 
Edwards, Tickner. 
The lore of the honey-bee. 196 p. . London, Methuen & Co., Ltd., 
1929. 
