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A. Salam Fauzy, Plant Quarantine Agent, of Alexandria, Egypt, 
and Max Kisliuk, Jr., Inspector from Philadelphia, visited the Labora— 
tory November 15. 
On November 19 Luther Brown, of the field laboratory at Sligo, 
Md., visited the Japanese~Beetle Laboratory. 

TRUCK-—CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
K. L. Cockerham, Biloxi, Miss., spent November 6 and 7 in Mont-—- 
gomery, Ala., in conference with officials of the State Department of 
Agriculture on the problem of the sweet potato weevil. 
Rodney Cecil, in charge of the field laboratory at Geneva, N. Y., 
has been transferred to Columbus, Ohio, effective November 12. 
K. L. Cockerham, Biloxi, Miss., P. K. Harrison and M. Brunson, 
Picayune, Miss., F. A. Wright, Bay St. Louis, Miss., and S.C. Brumnitt, 
Grand Bay, Ala., conferred with the workers of the Mississippi State 
Plant Board at A. & M. College, November 26 to 28, on the problem of 
eradicating the sweet potato weevil in Mississippi. Plans were made for 
completing the work in this line. 
Frieda B. Hinnenkamp, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, 
has recently been given a probationary appointment as Junior Entomologist 
at the field laboratory at Twin Falls, Idaho. 
Charles F. Henderson, formerly an agent of this division on the 
Sugar-beet leafhopper project at Berkeley, Calif., has been appointed 
Assistant Entomologist, pending certification, and will be located at 
Twin Falls, Idaho. 
Everett C. Tatman, formerly a field assistant of this division, 
working on the celery leaf-tyer at Sanford, Fla., has been appointed 
Assistant Scientific Aid, pending-certification, and will continue his 
investigations at the field laboratory at Sanford. 
The temporary appointments of R. W. McGinnis, Corvallis, Oreg.., 
and H. L. Dees, Grand Bay, Ala., field assistants, have been terminated. 
