NOTICE TO LIBRARIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS CONCERNING THE 
SERIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THIS LABORATORY. 
The Hygienic Laboratory was established in Xew 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, located in Washington, 
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 viability 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. — Yiability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 5. — An investigation of a pathogienic microbe (B. typhi murium Danyz) applied 
to the destruction of rats. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. G. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyd and sulphur dioxid. 
By M. 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 “LYiited 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 M. J. Rosenau. 
(Revised edition March. 1904.) 
No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. 
No. 10. — Report upon the prevalence and geographic distribution nf hookworm dis- 
ease (uncinariasis or anchylostomiasis) in the L'nited States. By C'h. Wardell Stiles. 
No. 11. — An experimental investigation of Trypanosoma leu'isi. By Edward Francis. 
No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of vaccine Auru's; an experimental study. 
By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 13. — A statistical study 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. SteA^enson. A parasitic roundworm (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 feA^er (tick feA^er) of the Rocky 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 antiseptic and germicidal properties of glycerin. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 17. — Illustrated key to the trematode parasites of man. By Ch. Wardell Stiles. 
No. 18. — An account of the tapeworms of the genus Hyme7iolepis parasitic in man, 
including reports of seA'eral neAv cases of the dwarf tapeworm (//. nana) in the United 
States. By BrajTon H. Ransom.- 
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