Biological products-Continued Commonhealth for Apr., 1923, is a Biologic products number. † League of nations. Health organisation. Report of the technical conference for consideration, of certain methods of biological standardisation, Edinburgh, July 19th-21st, 1923. World peace found. Ja 3 '24 7p (C. 4, M. 4, 1924. III, 147) 5c * United States. House. Com. on the District of Columbia. Regulation of sale of viruses, serums, toxins and analogous products, etc.: hearings before the subcommittee on H.R. 5845, H.R. 7366 and H.R. 8618, bills to amend section 2 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products in the District of Columbia, to regulate interstate traffic in said articles, and for other purposes, approved July 1, 1902, February 21, 25, March 3, 24, April 30, and May 6, 1924. Apply to Congressmen '24 230p (U.S. 68th Congress, 1st sess.) United States. Public health service. Biological products: establishments licensed for the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, December, 1923. '24 6p (Reprint no. 891) -Same. Pub Health Repts 38:3111-14 D 28 '23 Biology League of nations. Com. on intellectual cooperation. Mexico: biological studies. Cristobal Rodriguez. World peace found. '24? 8p bibl (Brochure no. 28, Enquiry into the conditions of intellectual work: 2d ser., Intellectual life in the various countries) 10c Birds Alabama. Dept. of game and fisheries. Birds of Alabama. A. H. Howell. Montgomery '24 384p bibl il maps Griscom, Ludlow. Birds of the New York city region. Am. museum of natural history '23 400p il map (Handbook ser. no. 9) 75c * United States. Dept. of agric. Local names of migratory game birds. W. L. McAtee. O '23 95p il (Misc. circ. no. 13) * West Virginia. Dept. of agric. Birds of West Virginia: their economic value and aesthetic beauty, Charleston '23 138p bibl il tables Birth control The conscious limitation of the birth-rate. E. V. Lindsay and A. D. Lindsay. Hibbert J 22:294-310 Ja '24 † Cooper. J. M. Birth control. Nat. Catholic welfare council '23 96p bibl 25c DeVilbiss, L. A. Birth control: what is it? Small '23 186p *$1.75 Contents: A definition: History, purpose and method: The opposition; Women and birth control; Increase in populations; Public health: maternal and infant mortality; The mental deficient and defective: Federal laws; State laws and the case of New York state; A forecast. † Edge. Mai. Some fallacies of artificial birth control. Daniel '23 23p *ls Ro Birth rate of the Hawaiian Japanese. manzo Adams. table J Applied Soc 8:206-9 Mr '24 Births and population in Great Britain. A. L. 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(S.C.S.H.B. 126, Laws 1923) Blind-Charities, protection, etc.-Continued New York (state)-Act to amend chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act in relation to providing relief for the needy blind", in relation to the exclusion of New York city from the operation of such act. (Ch. 129, Laws 1923) Education The blind child: provision for his schooling. E. M. Van Cleve. In Nat. conference of social work. Proceedings, 1923. D 387-90 '23 -Same. bibl Hospital Social Service 8:119-25 S '23 • United States. Bur. of educ. Schools and classes for the blind, 1921-22. '23 12p tables (Bul. 1923, no. 51) Advance sheets from the Biennial survey of education in the United States, 1920-22. 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Boundaries Laws California-Act to provide for the appointment of a commission to consist of the attorney general and state engineer to confer with a commission of the state of Arizona in respect to the location and re-location of the common boundary of said states, and to report concerning the same and concerning an agreement between said states as to measures for the straightening, controlling and improvement of the channel of the Colorado river, and to provide for the expenses of said commission. (Ch. 99, Laws 1923) Bournville, England. See Continuation schools; Education, Adult; Housing for; and appropriating moneys received for monument and memorial purposes; and prescribing penalties. (No. 295, Laws 1923) Legislation † New York (state). Lib. Legislative ref. sect. Digest of the laws of the various states reMildred lating to boxing and wrestling. Batchelder. Albany F '24 33p Typew. $3.05) To be obtained only thru P.A.I.S. Bradford, England. 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'24 [35]p tables charts maps The president [Arthur Bernardes] of the republic [Brazil] on the economic and financial situation. tables Wileman's Brazilian R 14:13990 24 '23 Finance Bahia [Brazil] budget for 1924. Homer Brett. table Commerce Repts no 45 p 395 N 5 '23 Brazil: financial difficulties. tables Bd Trade Jns 112:178-81 F 7 '24 Brazil seeks to put her house in financial order: British financial experts, at invitation of President Bernardes, consider how general plan for restoration may be carried out; probable effect of mission's activities upon American relations; the new bank of issue; British investment. G. B. Sherwell. tables Am Bankers Assn J 16:646-7+ Ap '24 Brazilian budget for 1924. W. N. Embry. Commerce Repts no 10 p 659 Mr 10 '24 Gaulin. ComBrazilian federal budget. A. merce Repts no 14 p 51 Ap 7 '24 The estimates 1925. tables Brazilian R 15:727+ Je 4 '24 The financial and commercial problems of Brazil. Hartley Withers. il Baltic-Scandinavian Trade R p 9 JI 16 '24 for Wileman's Panorama of Brazilian finance: financial history of Brazil begins with landing of Prince regent from Portugal; amount of currency in circulation shows steady increase while value of milreis slowly decreases; convertible paper money disappears from circulation when government makes inconvertible issue; many nationalities represented among foreign banks established in Brazil; nation has been meeting foreign and domestic obligations promptly. B. H. Noll. il Brazilian Business p 102+ S '23 The report of the British financial mission. table Wileman's Brazilian R 15:995+JI 30 '24 Bread Bread making in the modern bakery. R. S. Billups. tables Mo Labor R 17:1225-36 D '23 * United States. Bur. of child welfare. Bread for the new family. '24? 32p il ployers or masters and providing for the rejection of a certain class of testimony in relation thereto, the immunity of witnesses in giving testimony or producing documentary evidence under subpoena, and also a penalty for violation of providing for said act. (No. 146, Acts 1923) Pennsylvania-Act to prohibit the bribery of agents, employes, or servants and the giving or use of false documents with intent to deceive a principal employer, or master; to regulate evidence in such proceedings; and to provide penalties for violation of this act. (No. 398, Laws 1923) Bridgeport, Connecticut Bridgeport, Conn. City auditor. Municipal register, containing a list of city officers and committees, messages of the mayor, messages of the several boards, reports and 1923. '23 609p other public documents, tables Bibliography Bridging the Hudson river at New York city: A. S. Couillard, annotated bibliography. comp. 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Cooke, table Commere Repts no 9 p 584 Mr 3 '24 British Columbia. Agric. dept. Some about British Columbia, Canada. Bonavia. Victoria '24 20p il tables British Columbia, Parliament. Sessional papers, third session, fifteenth Parliament of the province of British Columbia, session 1922. Culin '23 v.p. tables ?price also com See also Agriculture; Insurance. Health; Legislation-1923; Lumber industry-Directories; Lumber industry-Statistics; Minimum Taxation: Workmen's wage; subhead Laws under: pensation; Bee industry; Cemeteries: Eggs-Marketing; Fire departments-Two-platoon system; Forests and forestry; Fuel oil-Taxation; Gasoline industry-Taxation: Hours of labor; Inheritance tax; Insurance, Life; Land; Land State; settlement; Liquor traffic; Police, and revision: Tele Statutes-Codification phone; Women-Employment British empire British dominions year book, 1924. Edward Salmon and James Worsfeld, eds. Eagle, Star and British dominions insurance co. '24 320p il chart Clark, Overseas: the Britain Cumberland. story of the foundation and development of the British empire from 1497 to 1921. Kegan 339p Paul '24 *12s 6d map British empire-Continued † Colonial office list, for 1924: comprising historical and statistical information respecting the oversea dominions and colonial dependencies of Great Britain, an account of the services of officers, a transcript of the colonial regulations, and other information. W. H. Merce and others. Waterlow '24 820p il tables maps (V. 63) 35s Dominions and dependencies of the empire. Collins '24 423p bibl tables maps (British empire: a survey, v. 1) *16s Encyclopedia of the British empire: the first encyclopedic record of the greatest empire in the history of the world. C. W. Domville-Fife, ed. Rankin 24 pts 1-7 il maps 1s 3d ea To be completed in about 24 parts, issued fortnightly. † Great Britain. [Colonial office?]. Imperial economic conference. 1923: summary of conclusions. H. 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C. and Kirkaldy, A. W. The trade, commerce and shipping of the empire. Collins '24 228p tables maps (British empire: a survey, v.7) *16s Economic conditions Lewin, Evans. The resources of the empire and their development. Collins '24 364p tables maps (British empire: a survey v.4) *16s Morgan, B. H. What every Briton ought to know: a short introduction to the study of empire economic problems. King '24 98p bibl tables 3s 6d British empire exhibition The British empire exhibition: the idea of the exhibition from an international and an English point of view. il Baltic-Scandinavian Trade R p 3-10 Ag 13 '24 British Guiana † British Guiana. Colonial sec. Blue book, 1922. Georgetown '23 v.p. tables ?price British Guiana handbook, 1922, containing general and statistical information concerning the colony, its industries, manufactures and commerce. William Francis and John Mullin, eds. Georgetown, Com. of correspondence and exhibitions, Royal agric. and commercial soc. 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