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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
M. E. Ryberg, of the Division of Cereal and Forage Insects, 
stationed with the Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, N. Y., visited the 
field laboratory at Madison, Wis., on October 4. 
M. C. Lane, in charge of the field laboratory at Walla Walla, 
Wash., while en route to Washington, D. C., to confer with Bureau offi 
cials and others on the wireworm problem, visited the University of Minneso— 
ta October 13 and 14, the Pea Aphid Laboratory and the University of 
Wisconsin, Madison, on the 15th, the Mexican Bean Beev.le Laboratory and 
Ohio State University, Columbus, on the 16th, and arrived in Washington 
on the 17th. In the latter part of October he went from Washington to the 
Museum of Cooperative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., where 
he made studies of the wireworms in the Leconte collection. 
K. B. McKinney, of the branch field laboratory at Tempe, Ariz., 
visited the field laboratory at Clarksville, Tenn., on October 14, where 
he discussed his work on the tobacco stalk borer with A. C. Morgan, 
in charge. 
J. Lb. Tate and D. Stoner have been appointed Field Assistants, 
for duty at Gulfport, Miss., and Sanford, Fla., respectively. 
H. C. Mason has been appointed Agent and assigned to work at 
Columbus, Ohio, in connection with the investigations of the Mexican 
bean beetle. 
P. J. Annand and V. E. Romney have received probational appoint— 
ments as Associate and Junior Entomologists, respectively. Dr. Annand 
will be stationed at Davis, Calif., and Mr. Romney at State College, N. M., 
to take part in the investigations of the sugar-—beet leafhopper. 
The temporary appointments of W. I. Duplessis, V. F. Kent, A. 
E. Bonn, C. T. McCoy, and F. A. Haasis have been terminated. 
COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
Thos. C. Davis was appointed and reported for duty, in October, 
as Field Assistant, with headquarters at El Paso, Tex. 
Andrew Spinks, Edward Smith, H. D. Cook, L. B. Reed, D. H. Rate 
cliff, and James Watkins, temporary Field Assistants, resigned in October 

