— 8 Ore 
Dr. R. T. Cotton spent February 9 to 11 in Buffalo, N. Y., where 
opportunity was given him to check results of fumigations at the es-— 
tablishments of Larkin & Company and the Hecker H-O Cereal Company. 
A. 0. Larson, of the bean-—weevil field laboratory, Modesto, Calif., 
arrived in Washington on Februe -y 14, for consultation and work on man— 
uscripts. In his absence C. K. Fisher is in charge of the laboratory. 
Dwight K. Grady, Secretary of the Dried-Fruit Association of 
California, visited the Bureau on February 17 and spoke very highly of 
the work being done at the Fresro laboratory. 
Among the visitors to the Division in February may be mentioned 
A. H. Eustis, of the Virginia Smelting Company, Norfolk, Va., Harry 
H. Steidle, of the Division of Trade Standards of the Bureau of Stan- 
dards, Department of Commerce, Theodore Myer, Jr., of the Theodore Myer 
Estate, Philadelphia, Dr. William Moore, of the American Cyanamid Sales 
Co., New York City, E. T. Ladd, of the Isco Chemical Co., Niagara Falls, 
N. Y., Mr. Wall, of the Kaskelite Manufacturing Corp., Chicago, and 
Dr. Hugo Hartnack, of Chicago. 
In February George B. Wagner, of the laboratory for the study of 
stored—-grain insects, Manhattan, Kans., conducted experiments on fumi- 
gation in Kansas City, Mo. 
Perez Simmons, in charge of the field laboratory at Fresno, Calif., 
for the study of dried-fruit insects, writes that the periodical ex-— 
change which he started last year has been reorganized for 1930. This 
year 16 laboratories of the Bureau on the Pacific Coast are cooperating. 
"There are 446 numbers, of 35 periodicals, in the exchange. Assuming 
that but one man at each station to which a periodical is sent reads it, 
the exchange will be equivalent to 1,047 individual loaus of periodicals." 
LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
The Bee Kingdom, a monthly review of modern bee culture. v. 1, No. 
1, Jan., 1930, illus. Cairo, Egypt, Al-Ausour Publishing House, 
1930. (Founded and edited by A. Z. Abushady. In English and 
Arabic. ) 
Bergemann, H. 
Over Schildluizen van de Koffie. 54 p., illus. Bata-— 
via, Ruygrak & Co., Dec., 1929. (Mededeelingen van het Proef— 
Station Malang No. 71.) (Archief voor de Koffiecultuur in 
Nederlandsch-Indie, Jahrg. 3, Nr. 3, p. 113-166, illus., Dec., 
1929 >) 
