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D. M. Delong visited Washington June 29, en route to his home at 
Columbus, Ohio, after making field observations on the Mexican bean beetle 
in the Southeastern States. 
On June 28 N. F. -Howard visited Geneva, N. Y., where he and Rodney 
Cecil went over the work on the Mexican bean beetle. 
C. E. Smith returned to the field laboratory at Baton Rouge, La., 
June 29, from Clarksville, Tenn., where he discussed the subject of chen- 
otropism with A. C. Morgan and S. E. Crumb. 
D. E. Fox has been appointed Agent at Twin Falls, Idaho, to assist 
in ecological investigations on the sugar—beet leafhopper. 
Temporary appointments have been given to H. Beerman, Philadelphia, 
Game, ©. ocenette, Baton Rouge, La., H. L. Ratcliffe and 0. R. Causey; 
Chadbourn, N. C., A.L. Goodrich and V. E. Romney, Twin Falls, Idaho, T. E. 
Bronson, Madison, Wis., H. L. Dees, Grand Bay, Ala., D. M. Delong and D. F. 
Miller; Columbus, 0., W. J. Douglass, Estancia, N. M., and S. C. Lyon, 
Clarksville, Tenn. 
FOREST-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
On June 18 Dr. F. C. Craighead started on an extended trip, to 
inspect forest-insect projects in Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, and Cal- 
ifornia. We will return to the East in August, to attend the meetings 
of the International Congress of Entomologists, which will be held at 
eennca,; N. Y. 
On June 21, at the twenty-second annual meeting of the American 
seciety of Agricultural Engineers, held at Washington, D. C., June 19 
to 22, Dr. T. E. Snyder addressed the Structures Section of the Techni- 
Gal Division on methods of protecting buildings from attack by termites. 
Dr. Uunio Saalas, Professor of Agriculture and Forest Zoology at 
the University of Helsingfors, Finland, arrived in Washington June 15 
and consulted with this office on the arrangement of an itinerary to visit 
some of the forest—insect field laboratories and the experiment stations 
of the Forest Service. He will also visit some of the other field labora- 
tories of the Bureau of Entomology. 
