CUMULATIVE INDEX TO SERVICE AND 
REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Nos. 1 to 149, inclusive (1914-41), ' Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine 
Compiled by Mai de A. Thompson, assistant, Division of Domestic Plant 
Quarantines, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarani 
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, 
BUCh as the status of early infestations of a giveo pest of economic importance 
even though no Federal quaratine was promulgated. The organization of the 
t Bureau and of the preceding Bureau, Administration, and Hoard ch 
with administering the act are recorded in the announcements as far hack as 1027. 
Press notices of the more important personnel appointments will also be found. 
State quarantine matter- 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- 
:iat are enforced under the provisions of the terminal inspection procedure 
will also be found. 
The cumulative index of these announcement- a- originally compiled in 1934 
by Horace S. Dean to cover the years 1914-33, inclusive, has proved to lc 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 
se of their completeness. For example, each quarantine is listed with all 
title changes, revisions, amendments, and administrative instructions pertinent 
bo that have been issued, together with their effective dates. 
In a few instance- items which were not published in the announcement series 
have been listed, including for the most part notices and circulars issued by the 
iral Horticultural Board before publication of the Beries was begun. 
Anyone u>in^ this index will usually find it more expedient to refer directly to 
tile major quarantine topic COncei . should he wish to find reference to a 
circular dealing with the importation of nurserj stock by mail, he would turn to 
Nursery stock, plant and seed quarantine (No. 37) and locate the desired informa- 
inder "mail, importation by." For information as to treatment require- 
for a given pest, he would turn to the quarantine pertaining to that pest. 
The abbreviations "H. P.." "P. Q. C. A." "B. P. (>.." and "B. E. P. (>." are 
i designate circular- in the numbered -eric- 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, n 
tively, of which a complete numerical list will be found. "S. P. A." a- 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. 
it index brings forward, with some revisions, the "Cumulative Index i" Service and Regulator] 
Annoui s. 1 to 117, inclusiv< compiled bj Horace 8. Dean, Plant Quarantine I 
.i>ion of Foreign Plan! Quarantines, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
