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Harry M. Jennison and E. K. Bynum have been given temporary ap- 
pointments as Field Assistants, for service at Bozeman, Mont., and Thibo- 
daux, La., respectively. 
Dr. W. J. Phillips, in charge of the field laboratory at Charlottes— 
ville, Va., was in the Washington office on July 3l. 
On July 1 Ralph E. Kimport, Agent, was transferred to this divi- 
sion from the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, and assigned 
to a newly established field laboratory at Bay Shore, Long Island, a 
branch of the Corn Borer Laboratory at Arlington, Mass. 
W. H. Larrimer spent July 7 to 15 in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana; 
consulting with officials about the research work on the European corn 
borer. 
INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F, C. Bishopp, in Charge 
L. H. Dunn, Assistant Director of the Boca Laboratory, Gorgas 
Memorial Institute, Panama, was a caller at the office July 3 to dis-— 
cuss problems of medical entomology. 
F. C. Bishopp visited Gibson Island, in the upper Chesapeake 
Bay, on July 5 to look into the problem of ticks and chiggers, which 
are seriously annoying residents there. 
M. B. Main, who has recently returned from India, where he stud— 
ied malaria mosquitoes, called at the office July 10. 
E. C. Green, of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, caltecdmas 
the office about July 10 and discussed parasites of the pink bollworm, 
incidentally offering to cooperate’in a further study of such parasites 
in Brazil, with a view to their ultimate importation into this country. 
On July 17 F. C. Bishopp attended a conference of physicians and 
health officers concerning the recently reported cases of typhus fever 
in Maryland. Much interest was shown in the likelihood of transmission 
of the disease through the agency of insects and ticks. 
Claude M. Gjullin, a recent graduate of Montana State College, 
has been temporarily appointed Field Agent, for duty in mosquito inves— 
tigations at Portland, Oreg., and reported for duty July 22. 
Dr. W. V. King, who spent most of July in Portland, Oreguaaes 
business relating to the mosquito project, left there for his official 
headquarters at Mound, La., July 26. | 
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