
Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory 
Dr. ©. L. Marlatt visited the Gipsy-Moth office and laboratory 
on September 18. Other recent visitors were Capt. E. K. Brockway, As— 
sistant Area Coordinator, and J. N. Bacheller, Assistant to Area Coor— 
dinator, Boston, Mass., September 25; Dr. Albert Hartzell, Entomolo- 
gist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, October 8; P. D. 
Sanders, Associate Entomologist, College Park, Md., October 8; C. W. 
Stockwell, Japanese Beetle’Control, Camden, N. J., October 11; Wm. B. 
Gurney, Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales, 
October lz; Dr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist of Conrecticut, 
October 13; Abdel Salam Fauzy, Assistant Entomologist, Egyptian 
Ministry of Agriculture, and W. G. Bemis, Plant Quarantine and Control 
Administration, Boston, Mass., October 19; H. B. Weiss, Department of 
Agriculture, Trenton, N. J., October 24. 
A. F. Burgess and S. S. Crossman attended the meeting of the 
Connecticut entomologists at New Haven, October 25, where Mr. Burgess 
discussed the problem of the gipsy moth. 
On October 26 A. F. Burgess attended the meeting of the eastern 
Plant Board at New York and gave a talk on the gipsy-moth situation. 
Awe). purgess Spent sseveral days in the week of October 8 
and October 18 in Washington conferring with Bureau officials. 
C. F. W. Muesebeck, of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, who has been 
in charge of the European work of this project for the past two and a 
half years, returned to Melrose Highlands, Mass., October 15. He left 
his headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, August 15, and before return- 
ing to the United States visited museums in Berlin, Stettin, Kiel, 
and Bonn, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; London, England, and Dublin, 
Ireland; these visits were made especially to examine genotypes of 
the Braconidae. P. B. Dowden and R. C. Brown remain in Europe, to 
continue the investigations and shipment of parasite material. 
S. F. Potts, of the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory, spent September 24 
at the New Orleans, La., laboratory of the Division of Tropical and 
Subtropical Plant Insects, and spent the two following days at the 
Delta Laboratory, at Tallulah, La. 
