NOTICE TO LIBRARIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS CONCERNING THE 
LABORATORY SERIAL PUBLICATIONS. 
The Hygienic Laboratory was established in New Y"ork, at the Marine Hospital on 
Staten Island, August, 1887. It was transferred to "Washington, with quarters in the 
Butler Building, June 11, 1891, and a new laboratory building, to be 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 notes on the suability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Eosenau. 
No. 2. — Formalin disinfection of baggage without apparatus. By M. J. Eosenau. 
No. 3. — Sulphur dioxid as a germicidal agent. By H. D. Geddings. 
No. 4. — Viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Eosenau. 
No. 5. — An investigation of a pathogenic microbe {B. typhi murium Danyz) applied 
to the destruction of rats. By M. J. Eosenau. 
No. 6. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyd and sulphur dioxid. 
By M. J. Eosenau. 
No. 7. — Laboratory technique: Eing test for indol, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward 
Francis; Collodium sacs, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward Francis; Microphotograpliy 
with simple apparatus, 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 Laboratory 
have been continued in the same numerical order, as follows: 
No. 8. — Laboratory course in pathology and bacteriology. By iM. J. Eosenau. 
No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. 
No. 10. — Eeport upon the prevalence and geographic distribution of hookworm 
disease (uncinariasis or anchylostomiasis) in the United States. By Ch. Wardell 
Stiles. 
No. 11. — Experimental investigation of Trypanosoma lewisi. By Edward Francis. 
No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of vaccine virus; an experimental study. 
By M. J. Eosenau. 
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, Bray- 
ton H. Eansom, and Earle C. Stevenson. A parasitic roundworm {Agamomermis 
culicisn. g., n. sp.) in American mosquitoes (Culex sollicitans); by Ch. AVardell Stiles. 
The type species of the cestode genus Hymenolepis ; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. 
No. 14. — Spotted fever (tick fever) of the Eocky Mountains; a new disease. By 
John F. Anderson. 
No. 15. — Inefficiency of ferrous sulphate as an antiseptic and germicide. By Allan 
J. McLaughlin. 
No. 16. — The antiseptie and germicidal properties of glycerin. By ^I. J. Eosenau. 
No. 17. — Illustrated key to the trematode parasites of man. By Ch.AVardell Stiles. 
No. 18. — An account of the tapeworms of the genus Hymenolepis parasitic in man, 
including reports of several new cases of the dwarf tapeworm (FT. nana) in the United 
States. By Bray ton H. Eansom. 
In citing these bulletins, beginning with No. 8, bibliographers and authors are 
requested to adopt the following abbreviations: Bull. No. , Hyg. Lab., U. S. 
Pub. Health & Mar.-Hosp. Serv., Wash., pp. . 
MAILING LIST. 
The Service will enter into exchange of publications with medical and scientific 
organizations, societies, laboratories, journals, and authors. Its publications will also 
be sent to nonpublishing societies and individuals in case sufficient reason can be 
shown why such societies or individuals should receive them. All applications for 
these publications should be addressed to the “Surgeon-General, U. S. Public Health 
and Marine-Hospital Servdce, Washington, D. C.” 
