MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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INT THROUGH THE COORDINATION OF ITS WIDELY DISTRIBUTED UNITS. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE sles Ly cae 
TO PROVIDE RED CROSS AMBULANCE FOR USE U8 Ne ica 
IN EUROPE. 
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. Subscriptions are being received for a fund of $1450 to be used in donating a 
ally equipped Red Cross ambulance for use in Europe. This gives a very definite 
ans for aiding-in the important work of the Red Cross, The ambulance will be 
mown officially as the United States Department of Agriculture Ambulance. Sub- 
ieriptions from Bureau employees should be sent to Mrs. H, S. Bishop 
pf the Bureau, 
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HONORS W. DWIGHT PIERCE. 
a On June 6 W. Dwight Pierce received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from 
he George Washington University, Washington, D. C. The title of his thesis was a 
Comparative Morphology of the Insect Order Strepsiptera", The minors were “The 
lelation of Insects to Disease", and "The Relation of Climate to Insect Life and 
INCREASES IN COMPENSATION PROVIDED BY 
CONGRESS. 
The Act making appropriations for the Department for the fiscal year 1918 
tontains a provision that during that year all employees of the Department, on 
0th statutory and lump fund rolls, shall receive additional compensation. This 
is at the rate of 10 per cent per annum to employees receiving salaries less than 
twelve hundred dollars, and at the rate of 5 per cent to employees receiving salar- 
les of not more than eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and not less than twelve 
hundred per annum. These provisions do not apply to persons employed under tempor- 
Qry appointments, nor to those who receive part of their salaries from outside sour- 
ces under cooperative arrangements with the Department, nor to employees whose duties 
require only a portion of their time. Arrangements have been made to place the 
provision made by Congress in operation July 1. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO FIELD WORKERS 
OF THE BUREAU. 
Specimens are sent by the field workers frequently without labels and with- 
jut indication as to whether they are to be returned. Then afterwards comes a re- 
st for the specimens from the men who gent them. In the meantime they have 
been distributed and it is almost impossible to find them. This is entirely un- 
necessary and field workers in the future are urgently requested to label and 
number all specimens sent in and to state definitely whether they wish them 
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