NOTICE TO LIBRARIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS CONCERNING THE 

 SERIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THIS LABORATORY. 



The Hygienic Laboratory was established in New York, at the Marine Hos- 

 pital on Staten Island, August, 1887. It was transferred to Washington, with 

 quarters in the Butler Building, June 11, 1891, and a new laboratory building, 

 located in Washington, was authorized by act of Congress, March 3, 1901. 



The following bulletins [Bulls. Nos. 1-7, 1900 to 1902, Hyg. Lab., U. S. Mar<- 

 Hosp. Serv., Wash.] have been issued: 



No. 1. — Preliminary note on the viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. 

 Rosenau. 



No. 2. — Formalin disinfection of baggage without apparatus. By M.J. 

 Rosenau. 



No. 3. — Sulphur dioxid as a germicidal agent. By H. D. Geddings. 



No. 4. — Viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Rosenau. 



No. 5. — An investigation of a pathogienic microbe (B. typhi murium Danyz) 

 applied to the destruction of rats. By M. J. Rosenau. 



No. 6. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyd and sulphur dioxid. 

 By M. J. Rosenau. 



No. 7. — Laboratory technique: Ring test for indol, by S. B. Grubbs and 

 Edward Francis ; Collodium sacs, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward Francis ; Micro- 

 photography with simple aparatus, by H. B. Parker. 



By act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, the name of the " United States 

 Marine Hospital Service " was changed to the " Public Health and Marine- 

 Hospital Service of the United States," and three new divisions were added to 

 the Hygienic Laboratory. 



Since the change of name of the Service the bulletins of the Hygienic Labora- 

 tory have been continued in the same numerical order, as follows : 



No. 8. — Laboratory course in pathology and bacteriology. By M. J. Rosenau. 

 (Revised edition March, 1904.) 



No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. 



No. 10. — Report upon the prevalence and geographic distribution of hook- 

 worm disease (uncinariasis or anchylostomiasis) in the United States. By 

 Ch. Wardell Stiles. 



No. 11. — An experimental investigation of Trypanosoma lewisi. By Edward 

 Francis. 



No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of vaccine virus; an experimental 

 study. By M. J. Rosenau. 



No. 13. — A statistical study of the intestinal parasites of 500 white male 

 patients at the United States Government Hospital for the Insane; by Philip 

 E. Garrison, Brayton H. Ransom, aud Earle C. Stevenson. A parasitic round- 

 worm (Agamomermis culicis n. g., n. sp.) in American mosquitoes (Culece sol- 

 licitans) ; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. The type species of the cestode genus Hymeno- 

 lepis; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. 



No. 14. — Spotted fever (tick fever) of the Rocky Mountains; a new disease. 

 By John F. Anderson. 



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