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FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Early in February Dr. S. A. Graham, in charge of the field lab-— 
oratory at St. Paul, Minn., spent several days in Washington, conferring 
with Dr. Craighead on the forest-insect work for the coming season in the 
Lake States. 
H. J. MacAloney, in charge of the forest-insect work at the 
Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass., spent several 
days in Washington early in February going over plans for the work in 
this section during the approaching field season. 
J. M. Miller, of Palo Alto, Calif. and J. C. Evenden, of Coeur 
d'Alene, Idaho, reported at Washington, D. C., on February 28, to outline 
plans for the coming summer's work and to confer with the Office of Forest 
Management of the Forest Service on cooperative control projects. Both 
of these men while on their way east attended the annual meeting of the 
Western Forestry and Conservation Association at Tacoma, Wash. Forest 
insects became a live issue on the progran. 
F. P. Jepson, Assistant Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, 
Peradeniya, Ceylon, made a special trip from England in the latter part 
of January to consult with Dr. Snyder in regard to controlling termites 
attacking tea bushes and the woodwork of buildings in Ceylon. Certain 
species of termites in the genus Kalotermes are primary pests of the tea 
bushes, and are doing extensive damage. Mr. Jepson returned to England 
in the first week in February. 
DECIDUOUS—FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
On February 4 Oliver I. Snapp gave an address on peach insects 
at the Mississippi A.& M. College for the benefit of biological workers 
and students interested in entomology at that institution. He also at- 
tended the meetings of the Cotton States Entomologists in Memphis, Tenn., 
on February 1 and 2, where he discussed developments in peach-insect 
investigations during 1927. 
Among recent visitors at the Peach Insect Laboratory, Fort Valley, 
Ga., were G. F. Moznette, of the Albany, Ga., pecan insect laboratory, 
and W. A. Thomas, of the truck-crop insect field laboratory at Chad- 
bourn, N. C. 
R. W. Hodgson, of the Horticultural Department of the University 
of California, visited H. S. Adair at the Brownwood, Tex., pecan insect 
laboratory February 28. Mr. Hodgson's call was in connection with his 
interest in pecan culture in California. 
