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ica, Cuba, and So 
uth Arierica is fairl 
needs st ; airly well represented, but ¢ rllecti 
sexe Rees aecet a other faunas. The Biuchi deb have Seed ‘geibralle Gee 
; al account of the species f . geass. Mie C8: 
published Peettiat of Ekhosckers, past beti the whole world has been 

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Fa ae of the collection in Bruchidae is due, even more than has 
ee ested OAS to Mr. Schwarz and in later years to Mr. Barber. As 
eat progressive work on the collections, the most cordial = 
as been rendered by them to Mr. Bridwell; “in his work, mee? 
ereat “ae bagi a introduction brings in much bruchid material of 
oa dds the seeds sent in by the field men being examined by the in- 
spectors of the Fedewal Horticultural Board, Most of the’ bruchiad ‘material 
Me eee from Asia and Africa and. much of that from South America has 
| ee > pats from this source, .Mr, Bridwell has been determining the Bru- 
es eren in insgection work: in cooperation. with VW. S, Fisher of the 
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~n=BUY W.S.5 = 
The habits of regular saving and safe investment in government securi- 
ties which hate taken a firm hold in the governmental departments both in Wash- 
| ington and throughout the country will not be curtailed during the coming: year 
because of lack of facilities, Secretary of the Treasury Houston has just an~ 
nounced that the Treasury is committed to the continuance and intensification 
of the Savings Movenient of the Treasury and that the issue of savings securi- 
ties will be continved throughout 1921. ; WAY: 2 
Those securities will be augmented by two new issues aecording to his 
announcement, _ These will be a $1 Savings Stamp and a registered Treasury 
Savings Certificute of the denowin.tion of $25, | 
In making the announcement, Secretary Houston said: 
ee "Two new Treasury savings securities will be issued during the coming 
‘year, a $1 Treasury Savings Stamp and a $25 Treasury Savings Certificaté,.. 
The $1 stamp will be non-interest bearing, will be bright ted in color, im- 
= printed on a green tint, and will bear the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, tre 
-Pirst Secretary of the Treasury, The $25 certificate will be: similar in de- 
sign and terms to the $100 and $1,000 Treasury Savings Certificates, which wil 
also be offered in 1921, to mature January 1, 1926. The new securities will 
supply a $1 unit for saving and a registered Government security in the $25 
denomination, which ean’ be conveniently purchased through the accumulatisn of 
the $1 Treasury Savings Stamps. More important still, the new securities ‘will 
complete a nost attractive line of Government savings securities, the Sto estan> 
and the $25, $100 and $1,000 registered Treasury Scvings Certificates, and thus 
place the Treasury Savings movement on a solid peacé-time basis: The small de- 
nomination war-time securities, the $5 War Savings Stamp, in a 192) series, 
and the 25 cent Thrift Stamp, will also be offered during the: coming year; 
on since the armistice from habits of saving 
‘Notwithstanding the reacti 
past year to invest funds in Liberty bonds 
and the natural tendency during the 
