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DISALLOWANCE DUE TO LACK OF EVIDENCE. 
In explanation of the numerous suspensions being made from reimbursement accounts 
submitted by field men, an extract from a letter written by the Auditor for the State and Other 
Departments, Treasury Department, is herewith appended. This letter is self-explanatory 
and shows the spirit governing suspensions, wherein the evidence submitted by the claimant is 
not in accordance with the law and regulations in such cases: 
You are informed that your claim in the sum of $3 for reimbursement of expenses incurred on behalf of the 
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, has been settled per M. S. and C. Certificate 10254 of this date 
and disallowed. Your letter of June 21, 1915 (responding to my communication of June 16), in explaining that the 
procurement of the evidence sought by the auditor would demand more of your time and of the time of others than 
you deem warranted by the amount involved, together with the closing statement in the letter that you consider the 
incident as closed, leaves open to the office no other course than disallowance. Federal accounts are audited on the 
basis of certain well-established requirements as to evidence, the remission of which can not be made to depend upon 
the convenience of officers or public claimants. It should be understood that the account was open to no other excep- 
tion than the absenc2 of evidence which is ordinarily obtained with but little effort and that it would, of course, 
have been the preference of the office to have adjusted the account in your favor upon receipt of the proofs required. 
LIBRARY. 
Miss Mase Cotcorp, Librarian. 
NEW BOOKS. 
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europiischen coleopteren. Hit. 73, 74. Paskau, 1915. 
‘Brirron, N. L. Manual of the flora of the northern States and Canada. Ed. 2, rev. and enl. 1122p. New York, 
1907. 
Bruges, 0. T. Synonymic catalogue of the dipterous family Phoridae. (Bul. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc., v. 12, p. 
85-182, 1915.) 
Cattedra ambulante di agricoltura per la Provincia di Messina. Bollettino 4, 8, 10, 11, 14. 1912-13. All on insect 
enemies of citrous fruits. 
Jones, T. H. The sugar-cane weevil root-borer (Diaprepes spengleri L.). San Jvan, 1915. 19p. (Porto Rico Board 
of Commissioners of Agr. and For., Bul. 14.) 
Kies, H. U. Calendar of citrus and olive-tree pests. Los Angeles, 1915. Broadside, 31 by 503 cm. 
McInpoo, N. E. The olfactory sense of Coleoptera. Reprint from Biological Bulletin, v. 28, no. 6, p. 407-460, pl. 
I-II, June, 1915. 
Massachusetts State Forester. Instructions for making improvement thinnings and the management of moth-infested 
woodlands. By H. O. Cook and P. D. Kneeland, under the direction of F. W. Rane. Boston, 1914. 35 p. 
Ontario Bee Keeper’s Association. Annual report for 1914. Toronto, 1915. 77 p. 
Quebec Society for the protection of plants from insects and fungous diseases. Annual report 7, 1914-15. Quebec, 
1915. 
Queensland Sugar Experiment Station. Bul. Div. Ent. No. 2, 1914. The cane grubs of Australia. By A. A. Girault 
and A. P. Dodd. 
Roget, P.M. Thesaurus of English words and phrases. Newed. New York, 1913. 
Scientific American cyclopaedia of formulas. New York, 1915. 
Surptey, A. E. The minor horrorg of war. Ed. 2. London, 1915. 
Tompson, M. T. An illustrated catalogue of American insect galls. New York, 1916. 
Witson, H. F. Orchard insect pests and methods of control. Orenco, Oregon, 1915. 
Zoological record. v. 50, 1918. London, December, 1914. 
BEE CULTURE. 
E. F. Pururrs, In Charge. 
About 30 members of the Baltimore Beekeepers’ Club visited the apiary and laboratory 
at Drummond, Md., on Saturday afternoon, July 24. Various demonstrations were arranged 
for them in the apiary. 
Dr. A. H. McCray is now stationed at the Drummond laboratory. He is continuing the 
work of examining samples of diseased brood sent in for determination, and is also taking up 
