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On October 21 G. G. Dustan, Junior Entomologist, Ontario Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, and C. W. Smith, Assistant Entomologist, Bell- 
ville, Ontario, visited the laboratory to look over the parasite work 
being conducted here. Paul M. Reed, of Bennington, Vt., also visited the 
laboratory. 
In the latter part of October Prof. W. C. O'Kane, of Durham, 
N. H., spent a few hours looking over the laboratory. 

TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Dr. W. J. Holland, director emeritus of the Carnegie Museum, 
Pittsburgh, Pa., spent October 1 to 4 examining material in the Nation-— 
al collections of Lepidoptera. He was particularly interested in cer- 
tain types in the recently acquired Barnes Collection. 
J. C. Hamlin, of the Bureau's alfalfa-weevil field laboratory, 
at Salt Lake City, Utah, was in the taxonomic unit October 7 to 9, in 
consultation with A. B. Gahan and R. A. Cushman concerning the hymen— 
opterous parasites of this weevil. 
Paul W. Oman, a graduate of the University of Kansas, joined the 
staff of the Bureau as Junior Entomologist on October 10. Mr. Oman 
will work on the classification and identification of Homoptera, and 
especially on the Cicadellidae. 
Prof. Herbert Osborn, of the department of zoology and entomology, 
Ohio State University, at Columbus, spent October 24 and 25 in the Na- 
tional Museum examining types of certain Cicadellidae and Fulgoridae. 
A. N. Caudell spent the last two weeks of October at the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, where he worked with Nathan 
Banks, Curator of Insects in that museum, on various neuropteroid groups. 

COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
The resignations of R. W. Bunn and J. H. Russell, Field Assistants, 
became effective on October 11 and 15, resp2ctively. 
