CUMULATIVE INDEX TO SERVICE AND 
REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Nos. 1 to 149, inclusive (1914-41), 1 Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine 
Compiled by Maude A. Thompson, assistant, Division of Domestic Plant 
Quarantines, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
FOREWORD 
The Service and Regulatory Announcements, first published monthly in 1914 
and later quarterly, constitute a permanent record of the quarantine and regula- 
tory orders issued under the Plant Quarantine Act of 1912 and certain related 
acts, including the text of the quarantines and regulations thereunder, the more 
important circulars, decisions, press notices, and administrative instructions, 
explanatory of, or bearing on, such quarantines. In addition, items of practical 
value and historic interest may be traced through reports of public conferences, 
such as the status of early infestations of a given pest of economic importance 
even though no Federal quaratine was promulgated. The organization of the 
present Bureau and of the preceding Bureau, Administration, and Board charged 
with administering the act are recorded in the announcements as far back as 1927. 
Press notices of the more important personnel appointments will also be found. 
Some State quarantine matters published in the announcements include cita- 
tions to the Supreme Court decision concerning the validity of State quarantines 
in relation to the Federal Plant Quarantine Act. Summaries of the State quaran- 
tines that are enforced under the provisions of the terminal inspection procedure 
will also be found. 
The cumulative index of these announcements as originally compiled in 1934 
by Horace S. Dean to cover the years 1914-33, inclusive, has proved to be ex- 
tremely valuable. Plant quarantine inspectors and administrative officers have 
found in it a ready reference to requirements of the plant quarantines of this 
Department, as promulgated in the above 20-year period, as well as the import 
restrictions of a number of foreign countries. The present compilation, which 
brings the former work forward and includes material through 1941 classified 
under similar subjects from various angles of approach, is the result of a demand 
on the part of the administrative officers and inspectors for a complete cumulative 
index. There will be found as heretofore several lists valuable in themselves 
because of their completeness. For example, each quarantine is listed with all 
title changes, revisions, amendments, and administrative instructions pertinent 
thereto that have been issued, together with their effective dates. 
In a few instances items which were not published in the announcement series 
have been listed, including for the most part notices and circulars issued by the 
Federal Horticultural Board before publication of the series was begun. 
Anyone using this index will usually find it more expedient to refer directly to 
the major quarantine topic concerned; e. g., should he wish to find reference to a 
circular dealing with the importation of nursery stock by mail, he would turn to 
Nursery stock, plant and seed quarantine (No. 37) and locate the desired informa- 
tion under "mail, importation by." For information as to treatment require- 
ments for a given pest, he would turn to the quarantine pertaining to that pest. 
The abbreviations "H. B.," "P. Q. C. A.," "B. P. Q.," and "B. E. P. Q." are 
used to designate circulars in the numbered series published by the Federal Horti- 
cultural Board, the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, the Bureau of 
Plant Quarantine, and the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, respec- 
tively, of which a complete numerical list will be found. "S. R. A." as used in 
the index is an abbreviation for Service and Regulatory Announcements. 
Mr. Dean has been freely consulted in the work of compiling the present index, 
and his experience and advice have been of real value. 
•This index brings forward, with some revisions, the "Cumulative Index to Service and Regulatory 
Announcements Nos. 1 to 117. inclusive (1914-33)" compiled by Horace S. Dean. Plant Quarantine Inspec- 
tor, Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
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