2 A N Nt'AL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1940 
spection house in Washington, I). (.. was able to move in and become 
established and ready tor business as <d" the last of the fiscal year 
The plain quarantine inspection house in Washington. D. C, was 
made available in L915 and was originally designed to receive plants 
imported by the Office of Plant Exploration and Introduction <>f 
the Bureau of Plant Industry. Effective Au<ruM 1. ([iiarantine 
No. o7 made provision for the entry of certain type- of plants to 
be imported under special permit, and all such plants arriving at 
eastern ports of entry were forwarded to the Washington inspection 
house for examination from that date until June 27, L940, when the 
force and equipment were transferred to the new inspection house 
at Hoboken. 
The top, or fourth, floor of the new building has been specially de- 
signed and equipped to serve as a receiving station in connection with 
the introduction from foreign countries of parasites which may prove 
of value in the control of insect pests now occurring in the United 
States. No specially equipped facilities of this sort have been avail- 
able heretofore, and it has been necessary in the past to take chit of 
each shipment sent by the collectors abroad in the best manner 
possible. 
PUBLICATIONS AND EDITORIAL WORK 
At the be<rinnin<r of the year 169 manuscripts were on hand, and 
during the year 4<sl were received, making a total of 650. Of these, 
18 were withdrawn. 75 were published by the Department, and 337 
were approved for publication in outside journals. There remained 
on hand at the end of the year 220 manuscript-. 172 of whic h were 
in the Bureau. 27 in the Office of Information, and 21 at the Gov- 
ernment Printing Office. Of the 172 in the Bureau, 95 were being 
reviewed or edited for publication by the Department and the re- 
maining 77 for publication outside. 
The 75 publications of the Bureau issued by the Department in- 
cluded 7 circulars. 1- farmers' bulletins. 7 leaflets, 4 miscellaneous 
publications. 1 picture sheet. 5 service and regulatory announcements, 
7 technical bulletins. 5 articles in the Journal of Agriculture Re- 
search, and 35 circulars in mimeographed form. 
LIBRARY 
The Bureau library records for the year show an increase of LO 
percent in the circulation of books and periodicals. This spring, 
ai the request of the librarian of the Department, the circulation of 
books and periodicals t<> the field stations and offices of the various 
bureaus was taken over by the Bureau libraries; a memorandum 
(EQ 'UK')) and three form letters were issued covering procedure for 
this Bureau. Results have been most satisfactory. 
Reference work for the Bureau's many divisions and offices in- 
creased appreciably; the library Is frequently called on to compile 
I'm- on special subjects, e. g., the effect <>f color on insects, nutrient- 
solution insect cultures, and tree banding for insect control. 
Index V I to the Literature of American Economic Entomology, 
L935 : » ( '*. has been continued currently and will probably be in print 
late in 1.940 or early in UH1: l'J other special indexes have been 
