
Brite Wn 
COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
Dr. Frank E. Lutz, curator of entomology, and A. E. Butler, assist- 
ant chief of the department of preparation, of the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York City, were at the Delta Laboratory, Tallulah, 
La., September ee to 26, selecting for the Museum some material for an 
exhibit of the cotton—boll weevil and its work. 
Dr. 5S. A. Jones and Jas. A. Becker, Statisticians, Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics, were visitors to the field laboratory at Tallulah 
on September 17, in the course of their tour of the Cotton States in the 
investigation of effects of the boll weevil on cotton yields. 
H. H. Schultz, Statistician, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 
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Austin, Tex., was a visitor to the field laboratory at Tallulah on Septem-— 
ber 17. 
T. P. Cassidy left Tallulah September 22 for return to the field 
laboratory at Tucson, Ariz., He planned to visit en route several points 
in Oklahoma where cooperative experiments on the boll weevil are being 
conducted. . 
L. L. Urich, Mechanical Engineer, with headquarters at Tallu- 
lah, and G. M. Stone, temporary Field Assistant, with headquarters at 
Florence, S. C., were appointed and reported for duty in September. 
Employees resigning in September were E. W. Dunnam, Associate En- 
tomologist, and W. A. Brunson, R. W. Bunn, J. A. Downs, L. D. Chris—- 
tensen, V. C. Howell, C. F. Rainwater, Josh Randolph, B. C. Stephen- 
son, J. G. Shaw, K. H. Smith, and H. D. Tate, temporary Field Assistants. 
