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At the request of the City Engineer's Office, received through 
v. K. Fisher, of the Bean Weevil Laboratory at Modesto, Calif., Dr. H. E. 
Burke and Albert Wagner, both of the field laboratory at Palo Alto, vis- 
ited Modesto, Calif., March 11 and 12, to investigate and advise on a 
program of spraying the city shade trees to control several insect pests 
which have caused considerable trouble in the past. The principal pests 
coccus platani Ferris) and the western sycamore lace bug (Colythucha con- 
fraterna Gibson) on the sycamore, and the hornet moth (Alcathoe apiformis 
Clerck) on poplar. 
On March 7 J. M. Miller and Dr. H. E. Burke attended a meeting of 
the California State Board of Forestry, held in San Francisco, to dis- 
cuss the allotment of the next biennial appropriation of State funds for 
cooperating with Federal forest-research agencies. E. I. Kotok, Direct— 
or of the Forest Experiment Station at Berkeley, and Messrs. Bowie and 
Gray, of the Weather Bureau, San Francisco, were other officials of the 
Department of Agriculture who were present.. 
Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory 
Visitors to the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory in March included Miss E. G. 
Rice and four of her students at the Brookline, Mass., High School, March 
5; G. A. Smith, in charge of moth work, Massachusetts Department of Con- 
servation, and six of his division superintendents, March 7; A. B. Baird, 
Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, and D. W. Jones, 
of the Corn-Borer Laboratory, Arlington, Mass., March 13. 
R. T. Webber went to Washington on March 24,:to be there for about 
10 days. He will spend considerable time at the National Museum, study— 
ing material belonging to the tachinid genus Achaetoneura, 
A periodical exchange was started about January 1 at the Gipsy—Moth 
Laboratory, different members of the staff subscribing to one or more 
periodicals which, for the most part, deal with entomology. At present 
22 periodicals are made available in this way. 
INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F.C. Bishopp, in Charge 
F. C. Bishopp spent the latter half of March in travel through 
Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, making observations and gathering 
information concerning mosquitoes, sand flies, and ticks. He attended 
an anti-mosquito meeting at Ft. Pierce, Fla., March 19 and 2). 
2el has been transferred from Mound, La., to Zellwood, 
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