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COTTON INSECTS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 
Di.C. LL. Marlatt, Chief of Bureau, spent February 24 and 25 at 
Tallulah, La. 
F. C. Bishopp went to Tallulah on February 11, remaining the rest 
of the month. 
R. B. Mull, Office of Accounts, Bureau of Entomology, was in 
temporary charge of accounts at the Tallulah field laboratory from Feb 
Tuary 35 to 28. 
Dr. F, A. Fenton, in charge of the El Paso, Tex., field labora 
tory, spent February 3 and 4 at Tallulah. 
Dr. E. W. Dunnam, in charge of studies on biology of the cot- 
ton bollworm at Bryan, Tex., spent several days at Tallulah, preparing 
reports and manuscripts. 
Dr.J. W. Folsom, Dr. F. A. Fenton, and Dr. FE. W. Dunnam attended 
the annual meeting of the Cotton States Branch of the American Associa— 
tion of Economic Entomologists, February 5 and 6, at Atlanta, Ga. 
The resignations of F. W. McDuff, Junior Administrative Assistant, 
and Haw Kirkpatrick, Photographer, at the Tallulah field laboratory, be- 
came effective February 2 and February 28, respectively. 
Owing to the separation from the service of B. R. Coad, formerly 
in charge of the Division of Cotton Insects, the direction of this divi- 
Sion has been taken over by F. OC. Bishopp, with headquarters in Washing— 
mon, D, C, 

TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Dr. J. G. Needham, head of the department of entomology, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y., was in the taxonomic unit February 3. 
Dr. A. Avinoff, Director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pav. 
came to the National Museum February 7 to examine the collections of 
Lepidoptera and to consult the Bureau's specialists. 
A. M. Boyce, of the California Citrus Experiment Station, at River-— 
side, who is conducting investigations on the insects affecting both 
wild and cultivated walnuts. was in the National Museum February 9 to 
1l, studying the collection of walnut flies of the family Trypetidae. 
