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COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
J. A. Parventjev, of the Pathological Institute, Berlin, Germany, 
visited the field laboratory at Tallulah, La., on July 5, to confer with 
Mr. Coad regarding insecticides. 
In July Mr. Coad visited the field laboratory at Florence, S. C., 
where experiments on the control of the boll weevil are carried on in 
cooperation with authorities of the State Experiment Station. He was 
met at Florence by Director Barre and other representatives of the State 
Organization, and a series of conferences were held to settle details, 
and arrange new phases, of the cooperative investigation. 
teouly .. FP. Cassidy, of the field laboratory at Tucson, Arias 
in general charge of the cooperative work in Oklahoma on the boll weevil, 
spent several days in Tallulah conferring with Mr. Coad. Another as-— 
sistant, with headquarters at Muskogee, will be assigned to this work. 
On July £5 Dr. E. W. Dunnam was reappointed Entomologist, with 
headquarters at Bryan, Tex. 
Temporary appointments as Field Assistants, effective July 1, have 
Seem ivyen tO Hugh S. Cavitt, E. F. Knipling, H. B.. Tittle, and H.-L. 
meereeior service at El Paso, Tex., and to 8S. F. Davis, M. C. Ewing, 
Been, Kennedy, W.'L. Lowry, H. T. Rainwater, K. R. Vance, Geo. M. Webb, 
D. H. Allen, jr., and W. H. Lindley, for service at Tallulah, La. 
TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECTS 
A. C. Baker, in Charge 
Dr. Baker left Mexico City on July 30 en route for Hawaii, to 
reorganize the field laboratory in Honolulu. This action has been ne—- 
cessitated by the expansion of phases of research that are being con- 
ducted there, and by the transfer to that laboratory of some of the re- 
search activities that were formerly conducted at Orlando, Fla., in 
connection with the campaign against the Mediterranean fruit fly. This 
work is being done for the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, 
on funds allotted by it. 
Dr. Wm. H. Mitchell, jr., of the Plant Quarantine and Control Ad- 
ministration, spent several days in Washington immediately Priorassno 
leaving on July 31 for Honolulu, where he will be engaged in research ~ 
work on the Mediterranean fruit fly. 
W. W. Yothers, of the field laboratory at Orlando, Fla., was in 
Washington July 14 to 16, for a conference with Bureau officials. 
