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COTTUN INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
In December Mr. Coad speut some days attending a conference at 
College Station, Tex., reviewing the cooperative research with offi- 
cials of the Texas State Experiment Station, on the cotton bollworm 
and similar problems. Plans for a publication on the work of the last 
several years were drawn up, and arrangements perfected for the coop- 
erative research for the coming season. Mr. Coad next visited the lower 
Rio Grande Valley and completed arrangements for enlarging the investi- 
gations of the cotton flea hopper in that territory, then visited the 
San Antonio offices of the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration 
for conferences regarding the pink bollworm. He also made a survey of 
sonditions in plantations in the central Brazos bottoms, with the idea 
of undertaking additional work there next season on the control of the 
overlapping infestations of bollworm, flea hopper, leaf worm, boll weevil, 
and cotton louse, all of which have for several seasons been exceedingly 
injurious to the cotton crop in that district. 
D. L. Moody was appointed Field Assistant, with headquarters at 
El Paso, Tex., and reported for duty December 2, 1929. 

FOREST INSECTS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
While in New York City on December 27, 28, and 30, Dr. Toon 
Snyder, of this office, consulted with the Western Union Telegraph Com- 
pany, the Standard 0il Company of New Jersey, and the Pan American Petrol-— 
eum and Transportation Company, with regard to control of termites, 
particularly in the tropics, 
Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory 
Dr. F. A. Fenton, of the Pink-Bollworm Laboratory at El Paso, 
Tex., spent December 5 and 6 at the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory, for con- 
sultation on methods employed in biological studies on insect parasites. 
Other visitors in December were F. S. Puckett, of Toledo, Ohio, R. E. 
McDonald, of San Antonio, Tex., and H. L. McIntyre, of the New York State 
Conservation Commission, at Albany. 
C. F. W. Muesebeck was in Washington December 7 to 14, studying 
types of certain Braconidae at the National Museun. 
tT. H. Jones and R. L. Wallis attended the meetings of the Amer-— 
ican Association of Economic Entomologists at Des Moines, Iowa, December 
50 to January 2. In the absence of Mr. Collins, who was unable to at- 
vend, Mr. Jones acted as secretary of the Association. 
