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FOREST-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
Dr. Craighead spent a few days in the middle of June at the forest— 
insect field laboratory at Asheville, N. C., consulting with J. A. Beal. 
Mr. Beal has been transferred to a new forest-—insect field laboratory which 
is being established at Portland, Oreg., with F. P. Keen in charge. R. 
A. St. George will assume responsibility for activities at the Asheville 
laboratory. 
A total of 12 field assistants have been appointed for the summer 
from various forest schools in different parts of the United States. These 
men are asSisting on field projects in Montana, Idaho, California, Oregon, 
Nebraska, Minnesota, Massachusetts and North Carolina. Several of them 
have been with the Division of Forest Insects one or two seasons previously. 
L. G. Baumhofer, who was stationed at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, during 
the winter, has been transferred to Halsey, Nebr., where he is working on 
the introduction of parasites of the pine tip moth in the pine plantations 
in the vicinity of that place. 
R. E. Balch, a field assistant who has been with this division ‘the 
last two summers, reported for duty early in June and was assigned for that 
month to the experiments in airplane dusting which are being conducted by 
Dr. J. M. Swaine in Ontario, Canada. At the completion of this work Mr. 
Balch will report in Montana, where he will study problems of defoliation. 
On June 17 Dr. T. E. Snyder returned to Washington, D. C., after giv— 
ing a course in biological entomology at the Department of Biology, Univer-— 
sity of Chicago, from April 1 to June 12. 
William Middleton attended a conference at the Northeastern Forest 
Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass., on June 3; and on June 10 and 11, with 
Dr. Carl Hartley, of the Division of Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant In-— 
dustry, made an examination of some areas of dying pine in Maryland and 
New Jersey. 
Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory 
The following college students have been given employment at the 
Gipsy Moth Laboratory, for the summer season, reporting for duty in June: 
J. T. Bingham, Ohio State University; J. L. Gardiner, University of Mary-— 
land; C. B. Green, Boston University; and S. C. Billings and A. J. Warren, 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
