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:. Field assistants whe have recently been appointed are W. I. Du- 
_plessis and G. H. York. for service at Alhambra, Calif., R. D. Church, 
at Walla Walla, Wash., R. J. Severance, at Toppenish, Wash., pheve hed yi set E 
INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 




On March ll W. G. Bruce, of the field laboratory at Fargo, N. 
'D., arrived in Washington by auto from Florida. After conferring with 
bureau officials he left on March 15 to resume his duties at Fargo, 
- driving Overland by auto. 
T. E. McNeel, of the field laboratory at Mound, La., has returned 
a to Zellwood, Fla., to continue the study of mosquitoes of the genus 
-Mansonia, which he. began last year. 
On March 25 J. L. Webb, of Washington, D. C., made an examina-— 
Rein of cattle in the dairy herd of the Elks' Ratiedel Home at Bedford, 
ya., and other herds in the vicinity, to determine the degree of in- 
- festation by cattle grubs there. 
7 dD. CG. Parman, of the field laboratory at Uvalde, Tex., spent. 
Bost of the month of March at Coachella, Calif., in investigations of 
the eye gnat at that place. 
H. E. Parish, formerly on the staff of the Mississippi State 
Plant Board, has been appointed Assistant Entomologist and assigned 
to the field laboratory at Menard, Tex. He reported there for duty 
March 27, and will relieve E. C. Cushing, who will soon go to Alaska to 
continue the investigations of reindeer insects begun by . E. Dove in 
ao29. 
Merwin Monagin has been appointed Field Assistant, dating from 
March 8, and assigned to the field laboratory at Uvalde, Tex. 
INSECT PEST SURVEY 
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge 
J. A. Hyslop attended the annual meeting of the North Central 
States Entomologists held at La Fayette, Ind., March 5 to S. At this 
meeting approximately 80 entomologists from the States west of the Al- 
leghenies, east of the Rockies, and north of the Cotton Belt, were in 
attendance. Plans for more extensive cooperation with the Insect Pest 
_ Survey were foraulated with several States. 
