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On June 10 Tomosuke Nakashima, Plant Pathologist at the Chosen Agri- 
cultural College, Suigen, Korea, visited the laboratory. Mr. Nakashima has 
been associated with the work of the Department of Agriculture in Korea 
since 192k. He was particularly interested in the work on parasites. 
On June 11 Yoshio Ouchi, who was J. L. King's assistant while the lat— 
ter was conducting parasite investigations at Suigen, Korea, in 1922, vis-— 
ited the Japanese-beetle Laboratory. He has been a student at Leland Stan- 
ford University for the past two years. 
On June 26 W. S. Abbott, W. M. Davidson, and D. P. Perry, of the Food, 
Drug and Insecticide Administration, visited the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
to consult with members of the staff. 
On June 26 and 27 Dr. A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of the Bureau, 
visited Moorestown and spent some time in visiting the various divisions of 
the laboratory and conferring with L. B. Smith. On the morning of the 27th 
Dr. Quaintance, Mr. Smith, C. H. Hadley, and J. L. King drove to Westbury, 
Long Island. At Westbury they visited H. C. Hallock, in charge of the Bu- 
reau's field laboratory there. Several trips were made into the field to 
study experimental work and the damage caused by Anomalaorientalis and 
Asericacastanea. 
Prof. J. J. Davis, of Purdue University, spent three days early 
in June at the laboratory at Moorestown, supervising the collection of 
material containing Macrocentrus ancylivora. The parasites obtained were 
for liberation in the peach-growing sections of Indiana that are heavily 
infested with the oriental peach moth. 
W. E. Steenburg, of the Canadian Entomological Branch, and D. M. 
Daniels, of the New York (Geneva) Agricultural Experiment Station, spent 
two weeks in June at Moorestown collecting larvae of the oriental peach 
moth and the strawberry leaf roller, both parasitized with Macrocentrus 
ancylivora, for shipment to the peach-growing sections of Ontario and New 
York that are infested with the oriental peach moth. 
G. J. Haeussler, of the peach-insect field laboratory at Moores- 
town, will sail for Europe July 17 to begin a search for foreign parasites 
of the oriental peach moth. 
Dr. H. W. Allen has been transferred from the Japanese—beetle project 
to peach-insect investigations, and will take charge of the work on parasites 
of the oriental peach moth at the field laboratory at Moorestown. 
A. C. Hodson, from the University of Minnesota, has been appointed 
Field Assistant, and assigned to work on parasites of the oriental peach 
moth, at Moorestown. 
