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COTTON INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
Perry A. Glick, who was injured in an airplane crash in Mexico 
on September 17, returned to duty November le from the United States 
Marine Hospital, New Orleans, La. 
V. V. Williams left Tallulah November 5, to resume study of the 
Bucculatrix on cotton in the vicinity of Calexico, Calif. 
M. T. Young, G. L. Smith, and R. W. Moreland left Tallulah Novem— 
ber 23 for Tucson, Ariz., where they will engage in scouting for Thurberia 
weevils. 
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DECIDUOUS—FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
The meeting of West Texas Pecan Growers at Brownwood, November 
15 and 16, was well attended and considerable interest in the Bureau's 
pecan insect work was manifested. Unfortunately, bad weather prevented 
a number from visiting the Bureau's laboratory at Brownwood who would have 
liked to do so. At this meeting Mr. H. S. Adair, of the field laboratory, 
gave a talk on "Some Practical Methods of Controlling Injurious Pecan 
Insects of this Section." 
Fred BE. Brooks, in charge of the field laboratory at French Creek, 
W. Va., was in Washington on November 3 for a conference in relation to 
work on insects which are attacking chestnuts. 
C. T. Blanz, who has been employed temporarily on control of 
the chestnut weevil in the Government chestnut orchard at Bell, Md., 
terminated his services for the Bureau on November l. 
Contributions from the Japanese—Beetle Laboratory 
On November 1 Dr. H. W. Allen visited the United States National 
Museum to place there a number of types of Tiphia which are described in 
a forthcoming paper by Allen and Jaynes. 
On November 2 John Glassford, Chief Chemist of McCormick and 
Company, Baltimore, Md., visited the Laboratory to confer with E. R. 
Van Leeuwen, 
