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Calif., and engaged in citrus fruit insect investigatims, has resigned 
from the Bureau to accept the position of entomologist and manager of a 
local insecticide company.: The laboratory at Alhambra has therefore 
been closed. 
John B. Gill, who has been in charse of the Bureau's laboratory at 
Brownwood, Tex., and engaged in pecan insect investigations has been trans~ 
ferred to Aberdeen, N. C., where careful investigations will be made of 
the plum curculio and other peach insects in that regim. 
A. I. Fabis will have charge of the pecan insect laboratory at 
Brownwood, Tex. 

SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Wedd, Mntomologist Acting in Charge 
Dr. W. D. Hunter accompanied ty B. R. Coad and others made a trip 
to the Laguna District of Mexico during the latter part of Octoter and 
the first part of November in connection with research work on the pink 
bollworm which is being carried on in that region. Following this trip 
Dr. Hunter visited Washington, D. C., later returning to his headquarters 
at Houston, Texas, 
H. M,. Brundrett, who has been engaged in ox-warble work at Herkimer, 
N. Y., stopped in Washington on his way to Dallas, Tex., woere he is to 
work on this insect during the winter. 
0. G. Babcock is on an extended trip through the Pacific Coast States 
investigating insects injurious to sheep and goats. 
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BEE CULTURE 
EK. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge. 
George H. Rea has resigned, to take effect December 1, from the 
work as extension specialist in apiculture for New York to take a similar 
positien with the State of Pennsylvania at Harristurg. He is still re- 
tained as collaborator with the office of Bee-Culture Investigations. 
Edward S, Prevost also resigned November 1 from the Bee~Culture 
staff but continues his teaching and extension work at Clemson College, 
South Carolina, under State appointment and as collaborator with the office 
of Bee-Culture Investigations. 
E. F. Philiips left Washington on November 17 to conduct a series of 
short courses in bee-culture at Fort Collins and Grand Jumction, Colo., 
and at Los Angeles and Berkeley, Calif. He will return December 22, 
