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STORED—PRODUCT INSECTS 
E. A. Back, in Charge 
W. D. Reed, of the Dried Fruit Insect Laboratory at Fresno, 
Calif., spent May 9 to 22, 1929, at headquarters for consultation, 
examination of literature, and preparation of manuscript. 
Mrs. Helen Russell, of the Santa Clara, Calif., plant of Libby, 
McNeill & Libby, spent July 25 to 29 at the Dried Fruit Insect Labo- 
ratory, studying the insects affecting dried fruits, and literature 
relating to the subject. 
On May 18 George R. Bell was appointed Field Assistant and as— 
signed to the Dried Fruit Insect Laboratory. 
On June 17 Lawrence M. fenwick was appointed Field Assistant 
and assigned to the field laboratory at Sligo, Md. 
George B. Wagner, who received the degree of Master of Science 
in Entomology last June from the Kansas State Agricultural College, 
was appointed Assistant Entomologist July 13, and has been assigned 
to investigations of flour-mill insects in the southwestern milling 
district. Mr. Wagner spent July 22 to 24 in Washington. 
In a press release from Berkeley, Calif., dated July 13, enti- 
titled "Bean weevil was pest as far back as history goes," there is the 
following interesting statement: "Red lima beans taken from the ancient 
Indian graves in the Valley of Ica and Ancon Necropolis in Peru show 
the work of the bean weevil. Ica records date from 1 to 500 A. Diy 
whereas those of Ancon are more recent by a thousand years. However, 
according to Professor Essig, both antedate the arrival of the Span— 
ish in Peru. An adult bean weevil taken from the Ancon beans does not 
differ in anatomical characteristics from the bean weevils of today. 
The insect was first described by Thomas Say in 1831, from specimens 
taken in Louisiana." 
Perez Simmons reports that in the month of July 15 visits to 
ranches and 8 to packing houses were made from his laboratory, and that 
there were 29 visitors to his office, including H. R. Fulton, Citrus and 
Subtropical Fruit Disease Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry; 
E. R. deOng, consulting entomologist, San Francisco; Dr. H. N. Hansen, 
of the Department of Plant Pathology, University of California; W. B. 
Parker, of the California Spray Chemical Co., who formerly worked on 
dried-fruit insects for the Bureau of Entomology; Dooley P. Wheeler, 
Horticultural Commissioner, and J. L. Quail, Farm Adviser, Merced County, 
Calif.; W. S, Follette, Assistant Secretary, and C. D. Fisher, Chemist, 
Dried Fruit Association of California; Samuel R. Coker, of the Pedigreed 
seed Company, Hartsville, S. D.; and Dr. R. T. Cotton. 
On June 28 Dr. Back attended the Convention of the Tobacco As—- 
sociation of the United States, which met this year at Hotel Cavalier, 
Virginia Beach, Va. 
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