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and another half million to meet the needs of the military posts, small camps | 
and naval stations; for men on the transports and overseas an almost unlimited 
supply can be used. TO MENT THESE NEEDS THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WAR 
LIBRARY SERVICH PLANS TO CONDUCT DURING THE WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 18TH A NATION: 
WIDE, INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN FOR BOOKS FOR OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. The kinds 
of books desired are novels of adventure, detective stories and standard fic- 
tion, up-to-date books on civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, the 
trades, business, the professions, and agriculture, recent text books on mili- 
tary subjects, the sciences and foreign languages, books of travel, histories, 
poetry and books on the present war. Pass on to the men in khaki the books 
you have enjoyed but will not read again- pass on also some of thase you like 
best and would like to keep- the soldiers and sailors will enjoy them too. 
Books brought to the Bureau Library or to the Library of the Department of { 
Agriculture will be forwarded to those in charge of the work. (Mabel Colcord.) 
LIBRARY. 
Miss Mabel Colcord, Librarian. 
NEW BOOKS. 
Arrow, Gilbert The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Cole 
optera. Lamellicornia Part II (Rutelinae, Desmonycinae and Huchi- 
rinae) London May 1917. 387p. illus., 5 pl. 
Coan, Boow. Agricultural bacteriology. Philadelphia, 1918. 357p. illus. 
Foreman, F. W. and Graham-Smith, G. S. Investigations on the prevention of 
‘nuisances arising from flies and putrefaction. Journal of hygiene 
Vel6, no. 2, p. 109-226, Oct. 31, 1917. 
Lutz, Frank E, Field book of insects. New York and London, 1918. 509p. 
101 pl. 
Pantel, J. Amproposito de un Anisolabis alado-contribucion al estudio de los 
esclerites toracios en los dermaptoros; datos para la interpretace 
ion del acropterismo excepcional. Barcelona, 1917. 160p. 6 pl. 
(Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, — 
lser. 3, v.14, no. 1, June, 1917.) 
Roubaud, EB. Les producteurs de maiases et agents similiares chez 1*homme et. 
les animaux. 250p. illus., 4 col. pl. (Etude sur la faune para- 
sitaire de l'Afrique franscaise, fasc, 1.) 
Sinclair, James, Instructions for collecting and preserving valuable Lep- 
idoptera, Los Angeles, [1917] 80p. illus. 
Theobald, F. V. Poultry in orchards and their effect on injurious insects, 
London, 1917. 2p. Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Trades’ Journal 
Oct. 13, 1917. 
Tillyard, R. J. The biology of dragonflies (Odonata or Paraneuroptera). 
Cambridge 1917, 396p. illus., 4 pl. 
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