22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Instructions for Collectors, No. 9. Soft-bodied and other 

 Invertebrate Animals. Fourth edition. Pp. 18. 8vo. 6d. 



Economic Series, No. 5. The Bed-Bug : its habits and life- 

 history, and how to deal with it. Second edition. Pp. 20 : 7 text- 

 figures. 8vo. 2cl. 



Economic Leaflet, No. 1. The Danger of Disease from Flies 

 and Lice. Second edition. Pp. 4. 8vo. Id. for 3 copies, 2s. 6d. 

 for 100. 



Poster-leaflet : The Fly Danger. Second edition. Price ^d. 

 The undermentioned works are in preparation : — 



Library Catalogue. Supplement, Vol. I. 



" Terra Nova " Antarctic Report. Further sections. 



Report on Cetacea stranded during 1918. By Dr. S. F. 

 Harmer, f.r.s. 



Catalogue of Moths, Supplement, Vol. II. By Sir G. F. 

 Hampson, Bart. 



Studies on Acari (Mites), No. 1. The Genus Demodex. 

 By A. S. Hirst. 

 Dr. A. J. Chalmers, Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research 

 Laboratories, Khartoum, has been allowed to issue Arabic transla- 

 tions of the posters on '" The Fly Danger " and " The Mosquito 

 Danger," for free distribution to the peoples of the Sudan. 



Mohamed Shafik Pasha, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry 

 of Wakfs, Cairo, has been granted permission to have the first 

 seven numbers of the Economic Series of pamphlets translated into 

 Arabic and published at his own expense in Egypt, where he 

 considered they would be of great interest and importance to the 

 people. 



The Museum has prepared series of lantern slides to illustrate 

 protective coloration of animals, and sets of these have, at the 

 request of the Military Authorities, been sent to France for the 

 British Army Schools for Scouting and Sniping, and to the Sniping 

 School at Aldershot. 



The extent of the collection of books, etc., in the Library on the 

 31st December, 1918, was, on a rough estimate, 103,939 volumes 

 (exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,263 maps. 



S. F. Harmer^ 



Director. 



British Museum (Natural History), 



1st April, 1919. .^^^i^f, j^tUSeiJZ 



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