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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
E. J. Newcomer, in charge of the field laboratory at Yakima, 
Wash., was in Washington January 4 to 14, discussing his investigations 
With Bureau officials. While on his return trip to the Pacific coast he 
made a short stop at the field laboratory at New Orleans, La., devoted 
to the investigation of the camphor scale ard other citrus pests. 
A. J. Ackerman, in charge of the field laboratory at Bentonville, 
Ark., was in Washington January 4 to 14 discussing his investigations 
with Bureau officials. On his return trip he accompanied Mr. Newcomer 
en the letier's visit to the laboratory in New Orleans, as related in the 
foregoing paragraph. 
Dr. B. A. Porter, in charge of the field laboratory at Vincennes, 
Ind., and R. F. Sazama, associated with Dr. Porter at the same laboratory, 
were in Washington several days in the early part of January to confer 
regarding plans for work on the ccdling moth, to be conducted at Vincennes 
in the coming season. 
E. R. Van Leeuwen, engaged in Japanese beetle investigations at 
Moorestown, N. J., atterded the ccdling moth conference in Washington Jan- 
uary 4. 
LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
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Fhiledelphia, N. W. Ayer & Sons, 1928. 
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Coleopterenlarven. Zeits. f. Wissenschaft]. Zool., Fd. 150, 
Hft. 1-2, p. 174-250, 1927. (Literaturverzeichnis, p. 248-250.) 
Besson,-Albert, ard Ehringer, G. 
La pratique de la désinfection- guide du médicin et de 
l'hygieniste pour les travaux d'assainissement, de désinsec-— 
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Cattell, J. M. 
American men of science, a biographical directory. . . Ed. 4. 
1132 p. New York, The Science Press, 19%7. 
