Jas. I. Hambleton left Washington January 5 for the Pacific Coast, 
on business relating to the establishment of the new bee-culture field 
station at Davis, Calif. En route, he visited the Intermountain States 
Bee Culture Field Station at Laramie, Wyo. While in California Mr. Han- 
bleton participated in the annual meeting of the Riverside County Honey 
Producers’ Association, at Riverside. On the return trip from Califor- 
nia he visited the Southern States Bee Culture Field Station, at Baton 
Rouge, La. 
Visitors at the Bee Culture Laboratory in January included Dr. F. 
W. Poos and Dr. F. F. Smith, of the Arlington Experimental Farm, Dr. N. 
E. McIndoo, Dr. J. W. Bulger, and Luther Brown, of the Takoma Park field 
laboratory of the Division of Deciduous-Fruit Insects, and L. F. Steiner, 
memcormolia, Ga.; Wm. P. Yetter, jr., Vincennes, Ind., Dr. John Gray, 
Moorestown, N. J., and H. G. Butler, Harriman, Tenn., out-of-town mem— 
bers of the Division of Deciduous-—Fruit Insects. 
G. Schmidt, of Leonia, N. J., formerly connected with the firm of 
G. E. Stechert and Co., New York, recently visited the Bee Culture Labo- 
ratory and was particularly interested in the beekeeping library of the 
Division. 

COTTON INSECTS 
C. L. Marlatt, Chief of Bureau, Acting in Charge 
Harry Gimora, Agent, formerly employed at the field laboratory at 
Tallulah, La., has resigned, effective January 18, 1931. 
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TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECTS 
A. C. Baker, in Charge 
C. F. Doucette, in charge of the field laboratory at Sumner, 
Wash., arrived in Washington on January 22 for a conference with Bureau 
officials in regard to his work and to attend the hearing on narcissus 
bulbs held on January 29 by the Plant Quarantine and Control Administra- 
tion. 
E. J. Spruijt spent January 28, 29, and 50 in Washington, confer— 
ring with Bureau officials in regard to his work at Babylon, N. Y. 
