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R. T. Webber, of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, 
Mass., came to the National Museum on March 25 to spend a few days exam— 
ining types and other material in order to complete a paper on a group of 
parasitic flies which he has been studying for several years. 
W. H. Thorpe, of Cambridge University, England, Traveling Fellow in 
Entomology, visited the Division of Insects several days in the last week 
of March. While here he examined the specimens in the collection belong— 
ing to a small group of predacious flies introduced from Australia into 
California many years ago, as parasites on the cottony cushion scale. Mr. 
Thorpe also spent some time with some of the bureau specialists, obtain-— 
ing identifications and other information regarding various insects. He 
was taken by Mr. Barber to the field laboratory at Sligo, Md., for con- 
sultation with Dr. McIndoo and Mr. Siegler. 
F. F. Carpenter, of the Roosevelt High School, Dayton, Ohio, re- 
cently visited the Museum to examine material in some species of flies 
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DECIDUOUS-—FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
L. ©. McAlister was transferred early in March from Moorestown, 
N. J., to Cherryfield, Me., where he will be associated with Dr. F. H. 
Lathrop in investigations of the blueberry maggot. 
H. G. Butler, a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural College, 
was appointed Assistant Entomologist March 14 and assigned to duty at 
Wichita, Kans., where he will be associated with Dr. P. M. Gilmer in in- 
vestigations of the codling moth. 
Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
On March 10 Dr. George L. Baker, Assistant Research Chemist at 
the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station, visited the laboratory to 
consult with chemists there. 
On March 25 William H. Thorpe, Esq., Demonstrator, Zoological 
Laboratories, Cambridge, England, visited the laboratory to observe the 
equipment for biological control. Mr. Thorpe was also interested in 
the chemotropic work. 
On March 26 Dr. R. W. Glaser and N. H. Coria, both of the Rocke- 
feller Institute, Princeton, N. J., visited the laboratory to consult 
with L. B. snith and Dr. Henry Fox. 
E. Avery Richmond, formerly in charge of physiological work at 
the Japanese Beetle laboratory, has tendered his resignation, effective 
April 1. Mr. Richmond has taken a commercial position with Rohm & Haas 
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