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Dr. W. E. Hinds, State Entomologist of Louisiana, while ona 
tour of the State to investigate the present status of the boll wee— 
vil, spent October 15 at Tallulah. 
On October 4R. G. Long, Airplane Mechanic, and P. A. Glick, of 
the field laboratory, returned to Tallulah from Tlahualilo, Durango, 
Mexico. 
V. V. Williams, who has been conducting experimental work on 
control of the boll weevil in Oklahoma during the past season, in co- 
operation with the State Experiment Station and the Oklahoma Exten- 
Sion Service, returned to Tallulah on October 27. 
R. W. Moreland, who has been conducting experimental work on 
control of the cotton bollworm in the vicinity of Bryan, Tex., during 
the recent season, returned to Tallulah October 1. 
The appointment as temporary field assistants of John S. 
Graham and C. C. McCall expired in October. 
S. W. Simmons and J. W. Yates were appointed in October as tem-— 
porary field assistants. 
TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, of San Francisco, Calif., a well-known 
Specialist in Coleoptera, spent October 1 to 15 in the Casey Room 
at the U. S. National Museum, where he studied types in the families 
Tenebrionidae and Melyridae. 
D. T. Ries, of Cornell University, spent October 10 to 12 
studying the Museum collection of sawflies of the family Siricidae, 
in connection with a revision of the species of the world. 
Dr. F. W. Goding, of Livermore Falls, Me., a retired member 
of the Foreign Service of the United States, came to the Museum on 
October 15 and spent several days examining Uhler types of Japanese 
Membracidae. 
Frank Haimbach, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Scien- 
ces, recently visited the Museum to study the collection of Pyrali- 
dae. 
Meme moss, Of Urbana, Ill.,- spent “October 22 to. Slit) the 
Museum, consulting with the Bureau specialists and studying the 
Museum material of the genus Dolerus, in relation to a revision of 
the North American species. While here he also made determinations 
and comparisons of sawflies in other genera from the collection of 
the Illinois Natural History Survey. 
