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Number 203 . March, 1931 
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E. A. Back, in Charge 
On March 9 C. K. Fisher, of the bean-weevil laboratory at Modesto, 
Calif., gave a short talk on the bean-—weevil situation at a meeting of 
the Denair Farm Bureau Center. Mr. Fisher confined his talk largely 
to the progress made in reducing bean-weevil infestations through co- 
Operation with various agencies. This was the first of a series of 
Similar talks to be given on programs prepared by various Farm Bureau 
Centers in Stanislaus, Merced, and San Joaquin Counties, Calif. 
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In connection with his investigational work in March, G. B. Wagner, 
of the flour-mill insect investigations at Manhattan, Kans., visited 
mills in St. Joseph, Mo., Minneapolis, Minn., and in Salina, Newton, 
Lawrence, McPherson, Topeka, and Wichita, Kans. 
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| . On March 10 Perez Simmons, of the dried-fruit insect laboratory 
; Meme resno, Calif., attended a meeting of the Agricultural Committee of 
the Fresno Chamber of Commerce. On March 21, Mr. Simmons and A. W. 
Morrill, jr., attended the monthly meeting of the Fresno Federal Business 
Association. 
A Frank G. Hinman, recently appointed Junior Entomologist to assist 
A. 0. Larson in the pea-weevil investigations, with headquarters at 
Corvallis, Oreg., has translated from the German F. Zacher's important 
publication, "Biology of Seed Beetles (Bruchidae -—:Lariidae)." A copy 
of this translation is being filed with the Bureau Library. 
On March 18 W. D. Reed, of the tobacco-—insect laboratory at Dan- 
Willie, *Va., conferred with Dr. A. S. Pearse, Professor of Zoology, and 
Dr. I. E. Gray, Professor of Entomology, of Duke University. On March 5, 
6, and 7 E. M. Livingstone and W. D. Reed visited the tobacco warehouses 
in Norfolk, Va. On March 21 Mr. Reed was in Washington for conference 
regarding his work. 
On March 14, Newell E. Good, of the flour-—mill insects laboratory 
at Silver Spring, Md., received from the British Museum, with our Amer-— 
ican species of Tribolium, a specimen of T. indicum, a rare species 
recently described from India. 

