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cause some annoyance and inconvenience to the general public. 

 I attach herewith a copy of tiie regulation. 



A'czi' Postal Rcgulatio)is. 



The following statement of the revised regulations of the post- 

 office department concerning the transmission of insects through 

 the mails has been kindly supplied by Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of 

 the Bureau of Entomology : 



"Queen bees and their attendant bees, when accompanied by a 

 certificate from a State or Government inspector that they have 

 been inspected and found free of disease ; beneficial insects, when 

 shipped by departments of entomology in agricultural colleges 

 and persons holding official entomological positions ; other live 

 insects, when addressed to the Bureau of Entomology of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, to departments of 

 entomology in State agricultural colleges and to persons holding 

 official entomological positions, and dried insects and dried rep- 

 tiles may be sent in the mails when so put up as to render it 

 practically impossible that the package shall be broken in transit, 

 or the persons handling the same be injured, or the mail bags or 

 their contents soiled. 



"Nursery stock, including field-grown florists' stock, trees, 

 shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, acions and buds (which 

 may carry injurious insects) may be admitted to the mails only 

 when accompanied by a certificate from a State or Government 

 inspector to the efifect that said nursery stock has been inspected 

 and found free from injurious insects." 



Hilo Report. 



Brother M. Newell reports the arrival of 7 steamers carrying 

 vegetable matter amounting to 109 lots and 1,642 parcels, all of 

 which are found free from pests. He comments on the fine ap- 

 pearance and condition of the California fruit. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. ]\r. Ehrhorn, 

 Superintendent of Entomology. 



THE SOIL AND THE PL.tXT 



Dr. E. J. Russell, of Rothamsted Experinu'utal .'^tatinn, lias a 

 paper in Science Progress," reviewing some reccnl .Vnicrican 

 hypotheses which seem to upset several established jxiinls as to 

 soil. Dr. Russell, after a careful examination, arrives at the fol- 

 lowing conclusion whicii indicates the fliffcrences as well : 



The outstanding dirferenccs between Whitney's hypotheses and 

 those more generally accepted may therefore br reduced to three: 



