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4 On October 3) Lawrence B. Parker, Junior Entomologist, who has 
_ spent three years in India collecting parasites of Popillia japonica, 
returned to the laboratory. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
The Washington Office was honored on October 23 by a visit from 
7Dr. O. W. Thompson, President Emeritus, Ohio State University, who 
was in Washington for committee work on the problem of the Mediter-— 
ranean fruit fly. 
if In October Ray T. Everly was appointed Junior Entomologist, for 
duty at Toledo, Ohio. 
Prof. J. J. Davis, head of the Department of Entomology, Purdue 
University, Lafayette, Ind., paid a brief visit to the Washingtom office 
on October 23, 
Resignations were accepted in October from E. D. Eaton, Junior 
Entomologist, Carlisle, Pa., and Geo. W. Still, Assistant Entomologist, 
Sandusky, Ohio. 
| Prof. W. P. Flint, Consulting Entomologist of the State Experi- 
ment Station, Urbana, Ill., called at the Washington office on October 
23 to discuss further cooperative work on the European corn borer, and 
_ preliminary plans for the entomological exhibit at the Chicago World's 
_ Fair Centennial Celebration in 1933. 

L. P. Rockwood, in charge of the field laboratory at Forest Grove, 
Oree., spent October 16 to 19 at the Washington office,. while on his 
meeyvacation trip to the East. ' 
M. C. Lane, who was formerly assigned to the wireworm investiga— 
tions of this division, but is now in the division of Truck-Crop Insects, 
is preparing, while temporarily in Washington, a manuscript fora Farmers' 
Bulletin on the control of dry—land wireworms. 
H. K. Plank, Entomologist at the Experiment Station of the Cuba 
Sugar Club, Tropical Plant Research Foundation, visited the field labora- 
tory at New Orleans on October 7. He was later taken to a Louisiana 
sugar plantation and inspected work which was going on in the control 
of the sugarcane moth borer. U. C. Loftin, Chief Entomologist, and L. D. 
_ Christenson, en route to Cuba to take a position as Assistant Entomologist 
mat that experiment station, were other visitors in October to the field 
- laboratory at New Orleans, as also was Dr. R. D. Rands, of Sugar-Cane 
Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. ; 
