
Lt 4. 
G. F. Moznette left Albany, Ga., November 11, on a trip of in- 
spection to the pecan-insect field laboratories at Shreveport, La., and 
Brownwocd, Tex., where he conferred with the technical workers regarding 
their projects on pecan insects. While on this trip he attended the An- 
nual Convention of the Oklahoma Pecan Growers' Association, held at 
Duncan, Okla., and presented a paper on the pecan nut case bearer. He 
returned to Albany November 25. 
E. J. Newcomer, in charge of the field laboratory at Yakima, 
Wash., presented a paper on "Fluorine compounds as substitutes for lecd 
arsenate in the control of the ccdling moth," at the annual meeting of 
the Washington State Horticultural Association, at Wenatchee, on December 
9. This paper was prepared jointly with R. H. Carter, of the Bureau of 
Chemistry and Soils. Mr. Newcomer also reed a paper on control of the 
red spider at the meeting of the Oregon Horticultural Society, at Eugene, 
November 13. 
The fifth annual meeting of the members of the Western Cooperative 
Oil Spray Project was held at Spokane, Wash., December 11 and 12, under 
the chairmanship of E. J. Newcomer. Members from the egricultural ex- 
periment stations of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, and from the 
Departments of Agriculture of Caneda and of the United States were in 
attendance. The current year's work was reviewed, plans were made for 
the future, and amended suggestions were drawn up for the use of oil 
sprays. On the afternoon of December 12, representatives of companies 
manufacturing oil sprays and other insecticides were invited in, and the 
Suggestions were read and were discussed with then. 
LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
Andrade, E. N. 
Subsidos para a entomologia agricola Brasileira VIII. Pasquinzas 
sobre a biologia da Mosca Pantophalmus pictus (Wied., 1821). Arch- 
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249-286, pl. 29-35, 1930. 
Andrewes, H. E. 
. Coleoptera. Carabidae. 1. Carabinae. 451 p., illus., col. 
front., plates, map. London, Taylor & Francis, 1929. (Fauna of 
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La conduite du rucher, calendrier de l'apiculteur. Edition revue 
et corrigée par J. Cremieux—Jannin. S15 pe ea lls: folds 
Paris, Payot, 1929. 
