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and the gardens at Mandan, N, Dak., were given an inspection during the month of 
mapril by J, T. Rogers, 
George Compere, who has returned to his official State duties st the port 
of San Francisco, has submitted a very informing report on his work of three 
months at the port of New Orleans, This report is a model of completeness and 
| fully demonstrates the need of a regular inspection service at this port, Some 
of the difficulties of this service are indicated in @ recent report from Mr, 
Courtney of a woman caught endeavoring to bring a number of small trees concealed 
under her skirts, If such efforts are to be made it is fortunate that the pres- 
ent style of spareness in woman's dress much limits such possibilities. 
The Board is cooperating with the State of New Jersey and the Bureau of . 
_ Entomology in the enforcement of the Japanese beetle querantine. C. H, Hadley 
has been commissioned under the Board to be in general field charge of the work 
and. the Board has also authorized three temporary assistants for a six months’ 
period to cover the working season, 
The barberry and Mahonia quarantine for the purpese of controlling the 
black stem~rust of various small grains was promulgated April 15, effective May 
Bee sh9 , , 
A potato wart quarantine was promulgated by the State of Pennsylvania March 
10, No Federal quarantine action will be taken for the present with respect to 
the outbreak of this disease inasmuch as the infested area is entirely within the 
State and probably can be controlied satisfactorily by State authorities. 
A conference on the subject of the gipsy and brown-tail moth quarantine has 
been called for May 6 at Washington, A. F. Burgess reports that this year there 
will be no need of an extension of the quarantine lines and in fact notable re- 
ductions can be made in some places, There will be ng necessity, therefore, for 
a public hearing. 


LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
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1-81, April 5, 1919, (Contribution from the Entomological laboratory of the 
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Pelt, Eb. P. New Philippine gall midges with a key to the Itonidae, 
Philippine Jour, Sci,, v.13 (D), no. 6, p.281-325, 1 pl., Nov, ,1918, 
mocee, C, F., Civic biology; a textbook of problems, local and national, 
that can be solved only by civic cooperation, 381 p., illus,, 4 pl. Boston, 
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Imms, A. D, Observations on the insect parasites of some Coceidas. 
Quarterly Jour, Micros. Sci,, new ser, no. 251 (v.63; pt.a), pacveneue, 
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Moore, William, The effect of laundering upon lice (Pediculus corporis) an 
their eggs. Journal cf Parasitology, v. 5, p. 61-68, December, 1918, 
Sedgwick, S. N, Common British beetles and spiders and how to identify them, 
62 p. illus, London, 
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