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DECIDUOUS<FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 

Ae Le Quaintance, Asscciate Chier of Bureau, in Charge 
Herbert He Schwardt, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural, Collége, 
has been appointed Junior Intomologist, and will be associated with Sa. ds 
Ackerman in fruit insect investigations at Bentonville, Ark, .e 
Lawrence Ce Mealister,. dr., a graduate of the South Carolina Agri= . 
cultural College, has been appointed Junior Intomologist and assigned to - 
duty at Riverton, N. J., where he will be associated with He Re Van Leewven 
in codling moth investigations, | . 
On March <3 Oliver I. Snapp gave an address at Clemson College, 
Se C., on "Insects Attacking the Peach in the South end Hov to Control Them,” . 
Mr. Snapp states that the plum curculio infestation in the Georgia Peach - 
Belt has again become serious, The present infestation is apparently: the: 
heaviest that has occurred there in five yearse Five bushels of peach bk 
collected on April 1] have already given up 4,481 curculio larvae.- 

LIBRARY 
_Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEw BOOKS 
Bonansea, Se de 
La plaga de los ocotes y la conservacion de los bosques en los Estados 
Unidos Mexicanos, 114°p. I. Escalanie, iiexico, 1914. 
Bouvier, ite le 
Le communisme chez les insectes, <1 De, illus. Ernést ena 
Paris, 1926, (Bibliotheque de philosophie sient erase 
Brenchley, ie Ee 
Inorganic plant poisons and stimulants. Ed. 2, 133 p. University 
Press, Cambridge, [Inge] 1967, Bibliography De LO8127. 
Cambridge Natural History. fd. by Ss Fe Harmer and A. Ea Shipley. 10 Ve; 
fully illus. Science, Apr. 22, 1927, Pe vi, states "The ten.volumes, 
“fully illustrated, of this standard work are available for a short 
time at a special price of 935,00 net. Ysually priced at p7400 per 
volume." The Macmillan Company, 60 Fiith aye New York City. 
Delacroix, Georges. 
Maladies des plantes cultivees. 2v., ilius. J.-B. Baillisre et @ 
fils, Paris, 1927, (mcyclopedie agricole, publiée par une reunion 
d' ingenicures agronomes sous la direction de G Werye).| Vera 
Maladies non parasitaires, par Georges Delacroix. 415 p., 1927; 
Ve &, Maladies parasitaires. Ed. 3, par A. Maiblanc. 456 pe, 1926. 
Evenius, Joachin, ; 
Unsere Honigbiene, ihr Bau, ihr Leben wnd ihre Zucht. 108 pe, illus, 
Ferd. Dummlers Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin & Bonn, 1926. 
