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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Agia. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
Dr. F. H. Lathrop, in charge of blueberry maggot investigations 
at Cherryfield, Me., spent May 28 and 29 in Washington, discussing opera- 
tions under way in connection with this project. 
£ Dr. B. A. Porter, in charge of the Vincennes, Ind. laboratory, 
recently spent several days in Washington discussing work under way. 
He has now returned to his permanent headquarters. L, A. Stearns, of the 
Ohio oriental peach moth laboratory, visited the Vincennes laboratory on 
April 30 and May 1. Professors J. J. Davis of Purdue University and W. P. 
Flint and S. C. Chandler of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, 
visited the Vincennes laboratory on May 16 and discussed the codling moth 
work under way in Illinois and Indiana. 
.Fred E. Brooks, in charge of the field laboratory at French Creek, 
W. Va., visited the offices in Washington and at Bell, Md., on May.14 to 
16, to onter about investigations of chestnut curculios. Recent visitors 
at the French Creek field laboratory include Boyd Carfer, of the Portland 
Cement Association, Parkersburg, W. Va., Dr. G. 0. Young, Buckhannon, 
W. Va., and John M. Wolverton, Washington, D.C. 
C. R. Gross, of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, will be sta— 
tioned at the Wenatchee, Wash., laboratory for cooperative work with 
insecticides and the spray-residue problem. E.'J. Newcomer, in charge of 
the field laboratory at Yakima, Wash., and C. R. Gross, of the Food, Drug, 
and Insecticide Administration, spent May 17 and 18 at Pullman, Wash., 
conferring with members of the Washington Experiment. Station. 
Of.the 8,000 Ascogaster parasites of the codling moth collected 
at Yakima in 1927, over 4,000 have been distributed to other States, two 
lots each having been sent to Colorado and California, and one each to 
Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona. 
TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
S. A. Rohwer, in Charge 
Dr. Ivar Tragardh, in charge of Forest Entomology, Stockholm, 
Sweden, was in Washington from May 23 to May 26, and while here visited 
Dr. Boving and other specialists in the Division of Taxonomy. Dr. 
Tragardh was especially interested in the preservation of specimens and 
the arrangement of the collection of coleopterous larvae. 
