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INVESTIGATIONS OF INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F, C. Bishopp, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Dr. Robert Matheson, of Cornell University, visited the Bureau on 
January 5 for conference on the program of the International Congress of 
Entomology, to be held at Ithaca, N. Y., next summer. 
On January 5 Prof. Geo. i. Dean, of the Kansa: Agricultural Col- 
lege, \onferred with Mr. Bishop}. regarding certain work on external para— 
sites of livestock which is under way at that institution. 
On January 10 and 11 E. W. Laake, of the Dallas, Tex., “fier 
laboratory, delivered two addresses to the farmers attending the special 
*ivestock Short Course held at College Station, Tex. The screw worm and 
its control, and the cattle grub as a source of loss to livestock raisers, 
were the two principal problems discussed. 
On January 13 and 14 F. C. Bishopp and Prof. L. fl. Case, of the 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, visited Burkes Garden, Va., to arrange 
for the season's cooperative work on control of the cattle grub, which is 
under way in Burkes Garden. 
JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren B. Smith, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Curtis P. Clausen, who has been in charge of the foreign phases 
of the parasite work on the Japanese beetle, recently returned from 
India, where he has been collecting and rearing parasites during the 
past three years. 
M. C. Swingle has been granted leave of absence to take up a 
special course in chemistry during the winter quarter at Ohio State 
University. He will return to the laboratory early in March. 
H. C. Hallock, stationed at Westbury, Long Island, who is con- 
ducting an investigation of Anomala orientalis, recently visited the 
Moorestown office. 
J. L. King attended the annual meeting of Pennsylvania workers in 
economic entomology, held at Harrisburg January 17, and gave a brief talk 
on parasites of the Japanese beetle. 
Dr. B. A. Porter, Vincennes, Ind., visited this laboratory in 
December and discussed plans for future work in connection with inves— 
tigations of the codling moth. 
L. C. McAlister, who is engaged in studying new stomach and con— 
tact poisons for the codling moth at this laboratory, attended the meet- 
ings of the American Association of Economic Entomologists at Nashville, 
Tenn., in holiday week. 
