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ferred to the office of Fruit Insect Investigations and will assist Dr. 
Dozier in connection with life-history investigations of the camphor 
scale, 
W. E. Upton has been appointed field assistant for a temporary 
period and will assist in connection with the camphor scale control 
operations, with headquarters at New Orleans, La, 
C. H. Hadley reports that the following men have accepted tem- 
porary appointments at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory ,Riverton, N.J., 
for this summer and have reported for duty: Prof. W. A. Price of Purdue 
University, Dr. Henry Fox of Mercer University, H. H. Pratt, a graduate 
of Rutgers College, and J. H. Painter, a graduate of the University of 
Maryland. 
Dr. William Moore of the Japanese beetle laboratory has recently 
returned from a trip to the bean beetle laboratory at Birmingham, Ala., 
where he was carrying on cooperative experiments with the dean beetle 
laboratory. 
Representative Isaac Bacharach (of New Jersey) recently paid a 
Visit to the Japanese beetie laboratory where he had opportwmity to look 
over the work of the laboratory and obtain a first-hand idea of the 
Japanese beetle situation in general. 
There was received at the Japanese beetle laboratory earlier in 
the spring what is believed to have been one of the largest shipments of 
imported parasite material ever brought into this country from abroad, 
Something over a hundred thousand cocoons of a tachinid known to be 
parasitic on the Japanese beetle in Japan were sent to the laboratory 
by C. P. Clausen and J. L. King, who are stationed in Japan and working 
upon Japanese beetle parasites tnere. A fairly large proportion of 
these cocoons were apparently in good condition upon their arrival at. 
the laboratory and emergence has just commenced. 
BEE-CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E. F. Phillips, Apicuiturist in Charge 
L, M. Bertholf, a gradvate student at Johns Hopkins University , 
has been appointed to assist in making examinations of adult bees to 
determine whether the mite causing the Isle of Weight disease is present. 
A considerable number of samples of adult bees have already been received 
from all parts of the country. Neither last year nor so far in the work 
this year have any of these mites been found in bees received from the 
United States. 


