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M. T. Young returned to Tallulah April 13, after completing work 
at Tucson, Ariz., and Presidio, Tex., to which he had been assigned last 
winter. 
Clyde F. Rainwater reported on April 1 for duty as Junior Entomol- 
ogist. 
Howard C. Massey and Robert L. Spinks were appointed Under Biolo— 
gical Aids in Entomology, and reported for duty April 16. 
. The following were appointed temporary field assistants and re= 
ported for duty in April. Cyrus Conn, Homer T. Rainwater, Earl E. Rogers, 
Thomas F. Henderson, Beauford A. Kennedy, and William L. Lowry. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
C. L. Marlatt, Chief of Bureau, Acting in Charge 
Luther Brown, who for the past few years has been stationed at the 
field laboratories at Sligo and Takoma Park, Md., and who for the past 
two years has been engaged in rearing parasites of the codling moth, was 
“transferred to Albany, Ga., in early April. At the Albany laboratory 
he will be associated with Dr. Herbert Spencer in investigations of the 
utilization of Trichogramma in the control of the nut case-bearer and 
Other pecan insects. The work will include a general investigation of 
the parasites of various pecan insects. 
John L. Gardiner, who for the past eight months has been stationed 
at the Brownwocd, Tex., pecan insect laboratory, was transferred May 15 
Sememearriman, Tenn. There he will be associated with H. G. Butler in 
lanvestigations of the oriental fruit moth, the plum curculio, and the 
peach borer in the eastern Tennessee region. 
M. C. Swingle was transferred from the Japanese-beetle laboratory 
at Moorestown, N. J., where he was engaged in investigations of parasites, 
to the deciduous-fruit insects field laboratory at Takoma Park, Md. 
Mr. Swingle will be engaged in physiological and toxicological investiga 
meons Of parasites under the general direction of Dr. F. L. Campbell. 
H. H. Shepard, Assistant Entomologist at the Takoma Park, Md., 
field laboratory, resigned, effective March 31, to accept a position in 
the department of entomology and zoology at the University of Minnesota, 
st. Paul, Minn. 
Earl Lott, of Sanford, Miss., A. J. Warren, of New Haven, Conn., 
and H. E. Barcklow, cf Moorestown, N. J., have been appointed Field 
ssistants for duty on investigations of oriental fruit moth parasites at 
the field laboratory at Moorestown, N. J. 
