a | 
ee = ee 
POSTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS REGARDING THE SHIPMENT OF 
INSECTS. 



























cial attention is called to the following paragraph of the Postal 
nd Regulations, providing for the transmission of insects by U. S. 
ce. 476. Queen bees and their attendant bees, when accompanied with 
fof a certificate of the current year from a State or Government 
inspector to the effect that the apiary from which said queen bees 
ipped is free from disease or by a copy of a statement by the bpee- 
sper made before a notary public or other officer having a seal that 
noney used in making the candy used in the queen mailing cage has 
Gluted and toiled in a closed vessel; beneficial insects, when 
id by departments of entomology in agricultural colleges and persons 
w official entomological positions; other live insects, when ad- 
sd to the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of 
culture, to departments of entomology in State agricultural colleges, 
persons holding official entomological positions; and dried in- 
and dried reptiles may be sent in the mails when so put up as to 
- it practically impossible that the package shall be broken in 
it, or the persons handling tne same be injured, or the mail bags 
eir contents soiled. (Postal Laws and Regulations, 1913. Paragraph 
Sec. 476, page 260.) 
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. 
The U. $. Civil Service Commission announces that an examination will 
held Octoter 14-15, 1914, for the position of "Scientific Assistant", 
$. Department of Agriculture. Detailed information may be had by ad- 
essing "U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C." Persons 
desire to be examined should apply for Form LSLR: 
+e 
— 
all 
. NEW BooKS IN LIBRARY. 
2 
Miels, C. W. Tropical medicine and hygiene, with a chapter on snakes, 
i by A. Alcock. Part II. Diseases due to the Metazoa. Bd.” Be 
oe. > London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1914. £78 pp. 
mson, Sir Patrick. Tropical diseases. Hd. 9 revised and enlarged. Lon- 
4 don, New York etc., Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1914. 937 pp. 
ingerland, M. V. & Crosby, C. R. Manual of fruit insects, New York, 
e? The Macmillan Co., 1914. 503 pp. Bibliograpnic footnotes. 
st of workers in subjects pertaining to agriculture and home economics 
rr in the United States Department of Agriculture and in the 
. State agricultural colleges and experiment stations. Cor- 
rected to June 1, 1914. Prepared in the Division of Publi- 
cations, U. $. Department of Agriculture. 
