Foreign Visitors at the Stored-Product Insects Laboratory, Manhattan, Kansas

Abstract

The Manhattan Station of the Stored-Product Insects Section, Biological Sciences Branch, Marketing Research Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is charged with the research program involving the biology and control of insects attacking stored grain and its products. The Station was established as a laboratory of the then Bureau of Entomology in July 1934 under the leadership of Dr. Richard T. Cotton, who continued as leader until October 1951. At that time he was made Section Leader and the writer was designated as Station Leader.