NOTICE TO LIBRARIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS CONCERNING 
THE SERIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THIS LABORATORY. 
The Hygienic Laboratory was established in New York, at the Marine 
Hospital on Staten Island, August, 1887. It was transferred to AYashington, 
with quarters in the Butler Building, June 11, 1891, and a new laboratory 
building, located in' Washington, was authorized by act of Congress, March 
3, 1901. 
The following bulletins [Bulls. Xos. 1-7, 1900 to 1902, Hyg. Lab., L". S. Mar.- 
Hosp. Serv., Wash.] have been issued. 
No. 1. — Preliminary ‘note on the viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. 
Rosenau. 
No. 2. — Formalin disinfection of baggage without apparatus. By AI. J. 
Rosbnau. 
No. 3. — Sulphur dioxid as a germicidal agent. By H. D. Geddings. 
No. 4. — Amiability of the Bacillus pestis. By AI. J. Rosenau. 
No. 5. — An investigation of a pathogenic microbe {B. tijplii murium Danyz) 
applied to the destruction of rats. By AI. J. Rosenau. 
No. 6. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyde and sulphur 
dioxid. By AI. 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; 
Alicrophotography with simple apparatus, by H. B. Parker. 
By act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, the name of the “ United States 
Alarine-Hospital Service ” was changed to the “ Public Health and AJarme- 
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 Labo- 
ratory have been continued in the same numerical order, as follows : 
No. 8. — Laboratory course in pathology and bacteriology. By AI. J. Rosenau. 
(Revised Edition Alarch, 1904.) 
No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. 
No. 10. — Report upon the prevalence and geographic distribution of hook- 
worm disease (uncinariasis or anch 3 dostomiasis) in the United States. Bj’ 
Ch. Warden Stiles. 
No. 11. — An experimental investigation of Trypanosoma leivisi. Bj' Edward 
Francis. 
No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of vaccine virus ; an experimental 
study. By AI. J. Rosenau. 
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, Brayton H. Ransom, and Earle C. Stevenson. A parasitic round- 
worm {Agamomermis culicis n. g., n. sp.) in American mosquitoes (Culex 
sollicitans) ; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. The type species of the cestode genus 
Hymenolepis ; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. 
No. 14. — Spotted fever (tick fever) of the Rocky Alountains: a new disease. 
By John F. Anderson. 
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