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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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WOMENS WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
| On November 15, at a conference of the women employees and the wives of the 
men employees of the Department of Agriculture, called by Mrs. Houston, the above 
organization was created. 
This organization has been made an auxiliary of the Red Cross, because the 
fed Gross is the organized official medium for the conduct of the war relief wort 
of the Nation. It is probable that later all supplies which we will wish to send 
to France can go only through the Red Cross, and that wool can be obtained from 
no other agency. 
The association however is independent; some of the activities must be con- 
ducted in close cooperation with the Red Cross, while others must be conducted in- 
dependently. 
Funds are needed for knitting, surgical dressings, garment making, housing, 
entertainment, bocks, scrap books for hospitals, and war orphans, CONTRIBUTIONS 
ARE DESIRED FROM ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE BUREAU, BOTH IN WASHINGTON AND IN THE FIELD, 
ALSO FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND FROM ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE WORK. 
’ Send your contributions to Mrs.’ H. S. Bishop, Bureau of Entomology, and 
specify, if you have any preference, to what purpose you desire the contribution 
to be put. 
THE WAR LIBRARY. 
As was noted in the October Monthly Letter the million-dollar fund for the 
thirty two cantonment libraries for our soldiers has been considerably over- 
subscribed, Such a response on the part of the American people to the libraries' 
call is most encouraging, but there is a further need they can help satisfy- that 
for books themselves. The camp libewies can use to advantage good novels- such 
as those by Doyle, 0. Henry, Owen Wister, Jack London, Kipling (both poems and 
stories), Dickens and Scott. There is also a great demand for technical books, 
particularly those on aviation, motors, engineering and mathematics, also for text 
books, both new and old, especially for French readers and dictionaries. Most of 
us could go through our shelves, as many have already done, and find several books 
of this kind which we do not care to keeps these would be of great service in the 
camp libraries, Even the old books and magazines which cannot actually be used 
in the cantonment libraries will be accepted as they can be sold and the proceeds 
used to purchase new books. Members of this Bureau, living in Washington may 
bring their books to the Bureau library or to the Library of the Department of 
Agriculture, whence they will be forwarded from time to time to those in charge 
of the work. 
VISITORS TO THE BUREAU DURING NOVEMBER, 
‘ Dr. L. P. de Bussy, formely Biologist to the Tobacco Planters ‘Association 
at Deli, Sumatra, who visited this country in 1910 in the effort to get parasites 
of injurious tobacco insects for importation into Sumatra, called at the office 
early in the month on his way back from Sumatra to Amsterdam, where he is to take 
