NOTICE TO LIBRARIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS CONCERNING THE SERIAL 
PUBLICATIONS OF THIS LABORATORY. 
The Hygienic Laboratory was established in New Y'ork, at the Marine Hospital on 
Staten Island, August, 1887. It was transferred to M'ashington, with quarters in the 
Butler Building, June 11, 1891, and a new laboratory building, located in Washing- 
ton, was authorized by act of Congress, March 3, 1901. 
The following bulletins [Bulls. Nos. 1-7, 1900 to 1902, Hyg. Lab., L". S. Mar.-Hosp. 
Serv., Wash.] have been issued: » 
No. 1. — Preliminary note on the ^dability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 2. — Formalin disinfection of baggage without apparatus. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 3. — Sulphur dioxid 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. typM murium Danyz) applied 
to the destruction of rats. By Nl. J. Rosenau. 
No. 6. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyd and sulphur dioxid. 
By Nl. J. Rosenau. 
No. 7. — Laboratory technique: Ring test for indol, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward 
Francis; Collodium sacs, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward Francis; Microphotography 
with simple apparatus, by H. B. Parker. 
By act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, the name of the “United States Marine- 
Hospital Service” Avas changed to the “Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service 
of the United States,” and three u,ew divisions were added to the H 3 ’gienic Laborator 3 ^ 
Since the change of name of the serA’ice the bulletins of the Hj^gienic Laboratory 
have been continued in the same numerical order, as follows: 
No. 8. — Laboratory course in pathologA" and bacteriology. By M. J. Rosenau. 
(ReA’ised edition March, 1904.) 
No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. 
No. 10. — Report upon the preA*alence and geographic distribution of hookworm 
disease (uncinariasis or anchylostomiasis) in the Ignited States. By Ch. Warded 
Stiles. 
No. 11. — Experimental inA’estigation of Trypanosoma lewisi. By Edward Francis. 
No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of A’accine virus; an experimental study. 
B}' M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 13. — A statistical studj- of the intestinal parasites of 500 white male patients at 
the United States GoA*ernment Hospital for the Insane; by Philip E. Garrison, Bray- 
ton H. Ransom, and Earle C. Stevenson. A parasitic roundworm {Agamomermis 
culicis n. g., n. sp. ) in American mosquitoes ( Culex sollicitans); bj’ Ch. Warded Stiles. 
The type species of the cestode genus Hymenolepis ; by Ch. Warded Stiles. 
No. 14. — Spotted fever (tick feA^er) of the Rock}" Mountains; a new disease. By 
John F. Anderson. 
No. 15. — InefficiencA" of ferrous sulphate as an antiseptic and germicide. Ba’ Allan 
J. McLaughlin. 
No. 16. — The antiseptic and germicidal properties of glycerin. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 17. — Illustrated kej" to the trematode parasites of man. By Ch. Warded Stiles, a 
No. 18. — An account of the tapeworms of the genus Hymenolepis parasitic in man, , 
including reports of seA^eral new cases of the dwarf tapeworm (FT. nana) in the United 
States. By Brayton H. Ransom. 
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