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R. A. St. George Spent the week of April 28 at Madison, Wis., 
attending the Forest-Service conference there, and took part in the pro- 
posed economic survey of forest Tesources. Doctors E. Bateman, Senior 
Chemist, and Caroline T. Rumbold, Assistant Pathologist, Forest Pro- 
ducts Laboratory, were consulted regarding certain phases of the work 
in tree injections that is being conducted by the field laboratory at 
Asheville, N. C., with the Object of finding a more economical method 
of control for trees attacked by bark beetles, 
On May 31 R. A. St. George left Falls Church for Asheville, N. C., 
to assume charge of the work at the field laboratory there for the com- 
ing summer. He will be assisted by R. W. Caird, of the University of 
Chicago, who is making a physiological study of trees attacked by bark 
beetles, and Messrs. Pawek and Huckenpahler, from the University of 
Minnesota, On his way to Asheville he will stop at Richmond, Va., to ex-— 
amine a group of pine trees at Hopewell, Prince George Co., Va., on the 
holdings of the DuPont Rayon Company, which have been attacked by the 
southern pine beetle. 
Contributions from the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory 
On May 8 Prof. C. T. Brues and D. W. Farquhar, of Harvard Univer- 
Sity, accompanied by 20 students in zoology, visited the Gipsy-Moth Lab-— 
Oratory. Mr. Farquhar again visited the Laboratory on May 13, with 12 
students in zoology from Radcliffe College. 
Prof. J. A. Manter and Prof. R. M. DeCoursey, of the Connecticut 
Agricultural College, spent May 14 at the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory. They 
were accompanied by three students who are Studying entomology at that 
college. 
In May four students, H. A. Bess, of the University of Florida, G. 
G. Cannon, of the University of Kansas, and D. W. Farquhar and C. W. 
Lacaillade, jr., of Harvard University, were given temporary appoint— 
ments as field assistants at the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory. 
C. F. W. Muesebeck, of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, conferred with 
H. B. Pierson, State Entomologist of Maine, at Augusta on May 20,. regard— 
ing injury to spruce in Maine by a webworm, Epinotia nanana Tr. Mr. 
Muesebeck later visited some of the areas where the injury is most ap- 
parent, along the coast of that State. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
W: BE. Haley, of the field laboratory at New Orleans, La., spent 
about three weeks in May visiting the sugar-cane sections of Florida, 
to investigate the situation as to the sugar-cane moth borer, and to 
make a special study of the parasites of this insect. 
