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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Dr. Herbert Spencer, formerly with the Louisiana State Experiment 
Station, at Baton Rouge, has been appointed Entomologist. His headquar— 
ters will be at the field laboratory at Albany, Ga., where he will make 
an intensive study of the entire parasite complex relating to pecan in— 
sects. A special laboratory for the propagation of Trichogramma minutum 
will shortly be constructed at this station. 
Dr. T. E. Snyder, of the division of forest insects, recently made 
a survey of the conditions regarding termites, at Albany, Ga., at the ur— 
gent request of the Chamber of Commerce of that. city. While in Albany 
he visited the. pecan—insect laboratory there and conferred with G. F. 
Moznette concerning the local infestation by termites. 
J. L. Gardiner, a graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College, 
has been appointed Junior Entomologist, and will assist C. B. Nickels 
in the investigation of pecan insects, with headquarters at Brownwood, 
Tex. C. C. Pinkney, Junior Entomologist at. the field laboratory at 
Brownwood,: has recently resigned to take up studies in landscape archi- 
tecture at Harvard University. 
Dr. B. A. Porter spent October 16 and 17 at Albany, Ga., discus— 
Sing with Dr. Herbert Spencer and G. F. Moznette plans for the work on 
parasites of pecan insects which is being undertaken at the Albany labo- 
ratory. While on this trip Doctor Porter also visited the field labo— 
ratories at Cornelia, Ga., Fort Valley, Ga., and Harriman, Tenn. 
M. A. Yothers, in charge of the Bureau's field laboratory at We— 
natchee, Wash., visited the Dominion entomological laboratory at Vernon, 
B. C., in August. In company with Dr. Charles Brooks, C. P. Harley, 
and E. L. Reeves, all of the Bureau of Plant Industry, he investigated 
the work being. done at that laboratory on the problem of the relation 
of the woolly apple aphis to perennial canker, the problem upon which 
Mr. Yothers is working at Wenatchee. 
E. P. Venables and A. D. Heriott, of the Dominion entomological 
laboratory at Vernon, B. C., visited the Bureau's field laboratory at 
Wenatchee, Wash., early in October, and conferred with M. A. Yothers, 
in charge. 
Contributions from the Japanese-—Beetle Laboratory 
On October 1 Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Marlatt visited the Japanese-— 
Beetle Laboratory. Dr. Marlatt spent the day in reviewing the work of 
the several projects. 
On October 16 Charles H. Warren, Dean of the Sheffield Scientific 
School, New Haven, Conn., visited the laboratory. 

