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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN. 
_ *\°) Up to-closing time Saturdey October 27, the aggregate of subscriptions 
members of the various bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, sagan 7 
ooeAegenerous response has been given by the American people to the call of the 
American Library Association for $1,000,000,00 for the 82 cantonment libraries for 
our soldiers and sailors, Over a million has been pledged, of which $939.22 has 
been contributed by employees of the Department of Agriculture and through their 
Miss Mabel Colcord, Librarian. 
NEW BOOKS. 
Adkin, Robert Ocneria dispar [Gipsy moth] in Britain. (South London Entomology 
and Natural History Society. Proceedings 1916-17, Ps 1-6.) 
Discusses infrequent appearance of Ocneria disper in England. 
Canada, Dept. of agriculture. Heslth of animals branch. Science series. Bulletin 
21-22, Ottawa, 1916, 
21, Hadwen, Seymour. A further contribution on the biology of Bypoderma 
22, Hadwen, Seymour & Bruce, E, A. Observations on the migration of 
warble ‘larvae through the tissues, 
Chagnon, G. A ‘preliminary list of the insects in the Province of Quebec. Part 
. III- Coleoptera. MacDonald, Quebec, 1917. p. 161-277. 
Published as supplement to report of the Quebec society for the 
protection of plants. 
Dougherty, L.S. and Dougherty, M. C. Principals of econcmic zoology. ed. 2d rev. 
Phila, and: London, W. B. Sanders Company, 1917. 428p. Tilvs. 
Insects, pe 112-187. 
Green, Edward C. A lagarta rosaca dos capulhos no Brazil-[Gelechia gossypiella] 
seu historico, dissominact.o, prejuizos-parassitas ¢ modo de combatel-a 
Rio de Janeiro, 1917. ; 
Zip. illus. 
