BELTSVILLE, Md. — A century of parasite research fills at least 100 boxes at the USDA National Agricultural Library (NAL) in Beltsville, Md. These records include photos, drawings, lantern slides, research notes, reports and correspondence. The documents are part of the U.S. National Animal Parasite Collection Records, which chronicle the parasitology studies of USDA scientists from1886 to 1987.
The parasitology records are one of the more than 200 collections that NAL holds safe, each documenting the history of a USDA program. NAL is a part of USDA's Agricultural Research Service, USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency.
Such records. . .