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A. C. Davis, formerly connected with the University of California, 
and who has been working on the pepper weevil in cooperation with the 
santa Ana laboratory, has been given a probational appointment as Assist- 
ant Entomologist at the Arlington Experiment Farm, Rosslyn, Va. He will 
conduct studies on mushroom pests. He succeeds 0. E. Gahm, who resigned 
fest tall. 
C. H. Clifton has been appointed Agent at Berkeley, Calif., and 
assigned to investigations of the sugar beet leafhopper. 
Dr. D. E. Fink, Entomologist, of the Philadelphia, Pa., field lab-— 
oratory, has been transferred to Takoma Park, Md., effective June 30. The 
Philadelphia laboratory has been discontinued. 
The following have been appointed as Field Assistants and assigned 
to duty as indicated: 
F. Roe, R. K. Howe, and F. E. Carroll at Madison, Wis. 
M. Eide and A. E. Bonn at Puyallup, Wash. 
Zelesnick at Philadelphia, Pa. 
L. Odom at Grand Bay, Ala. 
C. Eagerton at Fairfax, S. C. 
. T. McCoy, H. F. Cline, and J. A. Gillett at Twin Falls, Idaho. 
. Donohoe at Davis, Calif. 
F. Bowen at Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Harbison at Hermiston, Oreg. 
R. Weedon at Norfolk, Va. 
G. Shaw and E. B. Wiggins at Estancia, N. Mex. 
. M. DeLong and J. Apple at Columbus, Ohio. 
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TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL, AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECTS 
A. C. Baker, in Charge. 
Dr. Floyd F. Smith was transferred from the Division of Cereal and 
Forage Insects to this division on June 8 and appointed as entomologist, 
for duty at the Tropical Greenhouse in Washington, D. C. He will make 
a study of the cyclamen mite and other greenhouse insects. 
Robert H. Nelson was appointed Junior Entomologist, June 15, to be 
stationed at Sumner, Wash. 
Foster H. Benjamin was transferred from the Plant Quarantine and 
Control Administration to this division on June 1, for the purpose of com-— 
pleting certain studies on the Mediterranean fruit fly. 
