NOTICE TO LIBRARIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS, CONCERNING THESERIAlj 
PUBLICATIONS OF THIS SERVICE. 
The Hygienic Laboratory was established in New York, at the Marine Hospital ori 1 1 
Staten Island, August, 1887. It was transferred to Washington, with quarters in thfti \ 
Butler Building, June 11, 1891, and a new laboratory building, to be located iq 
Washington, was authorized by act of Congress, March 3, 1901. j ! 
The following bulletins [Bull. Nos. 1-7, 1900 to 1902, Hyg. Lab., U. S. Mar.-HosfK j j 
Ser\\, Wash.] have been issued: 1 « 
No. 1. — Preliminary note on the \iability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Rosenau.' 
No. 2. — Formalin disinfection of baggage without apparatus. By M. J. Eosenam^ 
No. 3. — Sulphur dioxide 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 pathogenic microbe {B. typhi murium Danyz) applie 
to the destruction of rats. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 6. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyd and sulphur dioxide 
By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 7. — Laboratory technique: Ring test for indol, by S. B. Grubbs and Edwai 
Francis; Collodium sacs, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward Francis; Microphotograpl 
with simple apparatus, by H. B. Parker. 
By act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, the name of the “ Unitod States Ma 
Hospital Service” was changed to the “Public Health and Marine-Hospital Sei 
of the United States,” and three neAv divisions were added to the Hygienic Laboratoi 
Since the change of name of the serAuce the bulletins of the Hygienic Laborato^ 
have been continued in the same numerical order, as follows: 
No. 8. — Laboratorj’^ course in bacteriology and pathology. By M. J. Rosenau. ' 
No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. - 
No. 10. — Report upon the prevalence and geographic distribution of hookwonj 
disease (uncinariasis or anchylostomiasis) in the United States. By Ch. Wards 
Stiles. I 
No. 11. — Experimental investigation of Trypanosoma Lewisi. By Edward Franci , 
No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of vaccine virus; an experimental stuf; * 
By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 13. — A statistical study of the intestinal parasites of 500 white male patients- 
the United States Government Hospital for the Insane; by Philip E. Garrison, Bra 
ton H. Ransom, and Earle C. Stevenson. A parasitic roundworm (Agamo7ner^ 
culicis n. g., n, sp.) in American mosquitoes {Cidex sollicitans); by Ch. Wardell Stil< 
The type species of the cestode genus Hymenolepis; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. 
In citing these bulletins, beginning with No. 8, bibliographers and authors j 
requested to adopt the following abbreviations: Bull. No. , Hyg. Lab., U. 
Pub. Health & Mar.-Hosp. Serv., Wash., pp. . 
MAILING LIST. 
The Laboratory will enter into exchange of publications with medical and scient : 
organizations, societies, laboratories, journals, and authors. Its publications will s i 
be sent to nonpublishing societies and individuals in case sufScient reason can j 
shown why such societies or individuals should receive them. All applications 
these publications should be addressed to the “ Surgeon-General, U. S. Public He*' 
and Marine-Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.” 
