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A NEW SYSTEM OF SALARY ACCOUNTING FOR FIELD EMPLOYEES. 
L Up 4o about 1912 all field agents of the Bureau submitted signed vouchers for 
eir salary, monthly, as it became due, In that year, however, this system was 
olished and all field employees were paid on field pay-rolls made up at Washington, 
d the fact that the employees rendered service during the period was certified by 
e en in charge of the different branches. The Office of Inspection has recently 
tigated the different systems in operation in the various offices of the Depart- 
mt by which continuous service during the period covered by the field pay-roll is 
tablished. In compliance with recommendation made by the Office of Inspection a 
‘orm system will be placed in operation in the Bureau of Entomology beginning 
ith the month of March. This system is intermediate between the old and the pres- 
at system. The pay-rolls including the names of the field men will be made up at 
ishington, as heretofore, and every field employee will submit a certificate cover- 
ng the service performed from the first of the month to a date that will permit the 
siling of the certificate in time to reach the Washington office on the 26th of the 
mth, at which time the field pay-rolls will be sent to the Disbursing Office. In 
asé the certificate covering service of any individual is not received by the time 
ie field pay-roll is submitted to the Disbursing Office the Disbursing Clerk will © 
} requested to hold the salary check until further advised, and the check will be 
4d until the certificate is received. This system will not involve any delay in 
6 payment of salary accounts unless field agents omit to submit their certificates 
? service in sufficient time. 
b pat service certificates will be signed by the payse and countersigned by the 
gent in charge of the field laboratory. Where there is only one man at a labora- 
ory, or several working independently, no counter-signature will be required. If 
field employes is absent from duty during the period from the date of signing his 
ertificate to the end of that month such absence will be reported to the Bureau by 
jlegraph on the last day of that month. 
Forms for the certificate of service will be distributed early in the month of 
arch. : 
Service certificates will not be requir 
wmed under Letters of Authorization. 
ed for employees whose services are per- 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
@ fcllowing entomological publications have been issued since the date of the Jan- 
ry Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Hntomology: 
q Observations on the life history of the cherry leaf beetle. By Glenn W. Herrick 
d Robert Matheson. Journ. Agr. Research. S 
_ (The Bureau of Entomology presented for publication, on October 25, 1915, 4 
aper by R. A. Cushman and Dwight Isely, entitled The Cherry Leaf-Beetle. The pub- 
cation of this full and extended report, unfortunately delayed, was not sent to 
6 Government Printing Office until December 30, following. ) 
j 
Life-history studies of the Colorado potato beetle. By Pauline M. Johnson and 
