


MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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THE WAR LIBRARY. 
Subscriptions are being received for a Library War Fund of $1,000,000.00 
to provide reference and circulating libraries for our fighting men, both 
soldiers and sailors, This fund is being raised by the American Library Asso- 
Ciation at the request of the United States Government, The money will pro- 
vide library buildings at the thirty-two (32) cantonments in the United States, 
@s well as bocks, equipment and men trained in library work to take charge of 
same, 
A survey of the entire field has determined that $1.00 will furnish a book, 
keep it in circulation, replace it when worn out and all the time pay a share 
of the expense of properly housing and saring fer these libraries in the vari- 
Ous camps. The Y. M. C. A. end Knights of Columbus and other organizations are 
@nthusiastically cooperating and every one of their huts will be a branch library 
in thie systems recruits, men in training, men being mobolized, men in garrisons, 
in rest periods, on the march, at the front, the crippled, the woundec, the in- 
terned, prisoners of war, men awaiting muster, sailors on shipboard and sailors 
at the various naval stations- all will have this service, 
As camps are closed in America books will follow our troops to England 
and France for camp or hospital use, others will be sent to permanent regular 
Army and Navy posts in America and the remaining books, if any, probably will 
be used to form new permanent public libraries or to strengthen old ones in 
parts of America where books ind libraries are needed, ) 
Such libraries heve been instituted by Great Britain and units in Hast 
Africa, Italy and Russia also have been supplied with volumes, much to the 
pleasure of the soldiers and sailors who have little to relieve their lone- 
liness and to brighien the dreary times of waiting to move forward, 
Contributions to tnis fund from members of the Department of 
Agriculture should be sent to Miss C. R. Barnett, librarian, U. 8. 
Department of Agriculture. 
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE PUBLICATIONS. 
(Mr. W. R. Walton addresses the following notice to the the men of his branch but 
since it applies largely to the entire Bureau force, it is reprinted here.) 
: The attention of the men of this branch is called to the fact that 
manuscripts are frequently submitted for publication which do not include 
a list of illustrations. When this is the case it necessitates work for 
the persons who are called upon to prepare the paper for the attention of 
the editors. It is strongly urged that in ell cases such @ list be fur- 
nished and if manuscripts are submitted hereafter without such a list tney 
will be returned to the author with a request that this list be furnished. 
In case the illustrations are to be reprinted from a former publica. 
tion of the Bureav, the number of the illustration 1n this publication to- 
‘gether with the page on which it occurs should be given in the list. If 
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