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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
L. B. Reed, who has been investigating the sweet-—potato weevil 
at Picayune, Miss., was recently transferred to Chadbourn, N. C., to as-— 
sist in investigations on the strawberry root aphid. 
Dr. E. M. Searls, Madison, Wis., visited Washington, D. C., Au-— 
gust 25 to 26, to confer with officials there. Dr. Searls expects toe 
leave the Bureau of Entomology on September 1, to accept a position with 
the University of Wisconsin. 
C. F. Stahl, recently assigned to investigations of celery in- 
sects at Sanford, Fla., visited Washington, D. C., August 25 toOuZouuee 
confer with officials regarding this work. 
Rodney Cecil, who has been in charge of the field laboratory at 
Geneva, N. Y., for the study of the Mexican bean beetle, was transferred 
August 24 to Alhambra, Calif., where he will inaugurate work on the 
lima-—bean pod borer. 
M. C. Lane, Walla Walla, Wash., visited Blairmore, Alberta, Canada, 
August 27 and 28, where he conferred with Canadian entomologists and 
others regarding investigations of the wireworn. 
Temporary appointments as Field Assistants have been given to 
R. S. Lehman, for service at Walla Walla, Wash., M. V. Lowe, at Chad- 
bourn, N. C., and C. E. Woodworth, at Madison, Wis. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
As a result of the removal of the Bureau of Entomology from the 
old, red-brick building on the Mall to Temporary War Building "C", near 
7th and B Streets, S. W., this division is now located in Rooms 218- 
ee8, on the second floor of the third wing of that building. The office 
is now fairly well readjusted and if, during the moving, attention has 
not been given any important matter, it is requested that we be further 
notified. 
Doctor Larrimer returned to the Washington Office on August 29, 
after an extended trip through northwestern Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, 
and Oklahoma, for field observation on infestations by the Mormon cricket, 
the range caterpillar, and the southwestern corn borer. 
W. P. Flint, Chief Entomologist of the State Natural History Sur-— 
vey, Urbana, Ill., visited the Washington office on July 29. 
