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TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. C. Baker, in Charge 
On September 10 Randall Latta, a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan 
College, and for a short time Assistant Entomologist at the Iowa State 
Experiment Station, was appointed Junior Entomologist, to assist Dr. 
Heen., COle On investigations of bulb insects at Santa Cruz, Calif. 
Chester B. Keck was appointed Junior Entomologist on September 
18, to fill a position at Orlando, created to meet the need of aspara-— 
gus fern growers in Florida in combating attacks of the red spider. 
Mr. Keck is a graduate of Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan, 
Kans., and while attending college assisted with research in economic 
entomology at the Kansas State Experiment Station. 
On October 15 Fredrick J. Spruyt, who has received the degree 
of Master of Science from the University of California, was appointed 
Assistant Entomologist to assist Mr. Doucette at Puyallup, Wash., in 
research investigations of the various bulb flies and other insect 
pests of ornamental and flowering plants. Mr. Spruyt comes to us from 
a year's graduate study of the biology of different Hymenoptera para— 
Sitica at Landbouwhoogeschool, Laboratorium voor Entomology, at Wage- 
ningen, Holland. 
TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
F. S. Chamberlin, Quincy, Fla., visited the Washington office 
on Oct. 19, to confer regarding his investigations for the season 
recently closed. 
N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, attended the meeting of the 
Eastern Plant Board held at the American Museum of Natural History, 
New York City, Oct. 26, where he discussed the problem of the Mex- 
ican bean beetle. 
W. A. Thomas, Chadbourn, N. C., visited Charleston, S. Cw, 
Oct. 25, to advise as to control measures on the outbreak of the web-— 
worm on spinach. 
The appointments of B. J. Landis, Geneva, N. Y., and S. P. 
Harrell, Estancia, N. M., field assistants, have been terminated. 
E. S. Parkinson, field assistant, Columbus, Ohio, has re- 
signed. 
Dr. Dayton Stoner has been given a temporary appointment as 
field assistant at Sanford, Fla., where he will investigate the 
role played by birds and other natural enemies in the control of 
the celery leaf-—tyer. 
