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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
E. J. Newcomer and M. A. Yothers, of the Yakima, Wash., field 
laboratory, attended the eleventh annual meeting of the Northwest As— 
sociation of Horticulturists, Entomologists, and Plant Pathologists, 
which was held at Vancouver and Victoria, B. C., June 25, 1928. Mr. 
Newcomer was president of the organization, 
Dr. F. W. Pettey, Senior Entomologist of the South African De-— 
partment of Agriculture, Dr. and Mrs. Uunio Saalas of Helsingfors, Fin— 
land, and Dr. M. B. Leonard, entomologist with the Tobacco By-Products 
and Chemical Corporation, visited the Yakima field laboratory on July 
24. 
Dr. W. W. Skinner, of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, visited 
the Yakima field laboratory July 16. for a conference on the cooperative 
work on insecticides, carried on with the Bureau of Entomology. 
Visitors to the peach-insect field laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., 
during the month of July include Prof. H. P. Gould, of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Prof. E. H. Rawl, Clemson College, S. C., M. C. Swingle, Japa— 
nese peetle laboratory, Moorestown, N. J., and a number of peach inspect— 
ors employed by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
H. S. Adair, of the Brownwood, Tex., pecan-insect field labora— 
tory, attended the sessions of the Texas Pecan Growers' Association, held 
at San Saba, July 11 and 12. 
J. L. Pelham, Associate Pomologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, was 
a visitor at the Brownwood, Tex., field laboratory July 12. 

GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F. Burgess, in Charge 
Among recent visitors at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory were Professor 
Bernard Trouvelot, of the Institut des Recherches Agronomiques, Paris, 
Dr. F. W. Pettey, Senior Entomologist of the Department of Internal Af-— 
fairs, Union of South Africa, and John Carrol, of the University of Dub- 
lin, Ireland. 
F. BE. B. Pope, Curator of Zoology in the Milwaukee Public Museum, 
visited the Gipsy Moth Laboratory in July for the purpose of obtaining 
material to be used in preparing an exhibit for the Museun. 
E. BE. Atwood, a graduate of the Connecticut Agricultural College, 
has been appointed Junior Entomologist, and reported for duty at the 
Gipsy Moth Laboratory on July 19. 
William Middleton spent July 10 to 15 at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, 
conferring with members of the staff. 
