SMOLENSKY, P. Traité d'hygiène (Treatise on hygiene). Paris: G. Steinheil, 1904, pp. XXXII+752. Appended to this volume, which is designed as a laboratory manual for the examination of foods and which is particularly valuable as a summary of Russian investigations, is an extended bibliography.

STILES, C. W. The significance of the recent American cases of hookworm disease (uncinariasis, or anchylostomiasis) in man. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry Report 1901, pp. 183-219. A list of articles cited in this paper in connection with American cases of this disease is appended.

and HASSALL, A. Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletin 39, parts 2, pp. 47-198; 3, pp. 199-324; 4, pp. 325-403; 5, pp. 405–435. These parts of the bulletin include authors whose names begin with the letters B to E, inclusive. SWINGLE, D. B. Formation of the spores in the sporangia of Rhizopus nigricans and of Phycomyces nitens. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 37, pp. 40. Twenty-six references.

SZÉKELY, A. VON. Die Frage der Identität der menschlichen und Rindertuberkulose (The question of the identity of human and bovine tuberculosis). Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, und Infektionskrankheiten, 1. Abt., 32 (1902), Nos. 6, Referate, pp. 167-173; 7, pp. 193-203; 8, pp. 225-237. A review of recent literature on this subject with numerous bibliographic references.

TERRE, L. Essai sur la tuberculose des vertébrés à sang froid (Tuberculosis in coldblooded vertebrates). Dijon: Barbier-Marilier, 1902, pp. 128. A critical review of the literature relating to tuberculosis in cold-blooded vertebrates, together with a bibliography of 168 titles.

THE [LONDON] CHEMICAL SOCIETY. A catalogue of the library of the Chemical Society, arranged according to authors, with a subject index. London: The Chemical Society, 1903, pp. 324.

TINSLEY, J. D. Alkali. New Mexico Station Bulletin 42, pp. 27-31. A list of 61 arti

cles on alkali and alkali soils.

TJADEN, A., KOSKE, F., and HERTEL, M. Zur Frage der Erhitzung der Milch, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Molkereien (Concerning the heating of milk, with especial reference to dairies). Arbeiten aus dem kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte, 18 (1901), No. 2, pp. 219-354. A list of 74 articles relating to the pasteurization of milk.

TUTT, J. W. A natural history of the British Lepidoptera, III. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1902, pp. XII+558. This volume contains numerous bibliographical notes relating to the families considered. Vandevelde, A. J. J. Die kieming der zaadplanten, morphologie en physiologie (The morphology and physiology of the germination of Spermatophytes). Ghent: J. Vuylsteke, 1900, pt. 2, pp. 137-301. A bibliography of literature relating to this subject is given in connection with an extended discussion.

Repertorium van de geschriften over de voedingsmiddelen gedurende het jaar 1900 verschenen (Review of the literature of foods for the year 1900). Ghent: A. Siffer, 1901, pp. 140. A list of 520 publications on foods and food products, with notes concerning each.

Repertorium van de geschriften over de voedingsmiddelen gedurende het jaar 1901 verschenen (Review of the literature of foods for the year 1901). Ghent:

A. Siffer, 1902, pp. 165. A list of 686 publications on foods and food products, with notes concerning each.

WARMAN, P. C. Catalogue and index of the publications of the United States Geological Survey, 1901 to 1903. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 215, pp. 234. This is supplementary to Bulletin 177, published in 1901. The two bulletins include all the publications of the Geological Survey from its organization in 1879 to June, 1903.

WATT, A. The art of paper making. London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1901, p. 246. A list of 16 works relating to paper manufacture. WEED, C. M. A partial bibliography of the economic relations of North American birds. New Hampshire Station Technical Bulletin 5, pp. 137-179. A chronological list of 290 of the more important works on economic ornithology from 1888 to 1901, inclusive.

WELDON, W. F. R. Mendel's laws of alternative inheritance in peas. Biometrika, 1 (1902), No. 2, pp. 228-254. A bibliography of 32 papers relating to Mendel's law and the data upon which it is based.

WESTERMANN, T. Uddrag af fremmed litteratur vedrørende landbrugets jorddyrkning og plantekultur for aar 1900 (A review of the foreign literature relating to agriculture, soil management, and plant culture for the year 1900). Tidsskrift for Landbrugets Planteavl, 8 (1902), Supplement, pp. 147. A classified list of references, with a discussion of the more important articles and an author index.

WILDEMAN, E. DE. Les plantes tropicales de grande culture (Tropical plants of commercial importance). Brussels: Alfred Castaigne, 1902, pp. IV+304. This work includes a bibliography of the literature relating to the distribution of coffee, cacao, vanilla, cola, and rubber-producing plants of central Africa.

WILDERMANN, M. Jahrbuch der Naturwissenschaften, 1901-1902 (Yearbook of the natural sciences, 1901-1902). Jahrbuch der Naturwissenschaften, 17 (1901–1902), pp. 533. This contains brief abstracts of the more important articles published during the year on different lines of science.

WILLIAMS, O. A bibliography of forestry. Forestry Quarterly, 1 (1903), No. 4, pp. 163-172. A list of articles relating to forestry published in Congressional documents. ZIMMERMANN, A. Die Parasiten der Schattenbäume und Windbrecher (Parasites of shade trees and windbreaks). Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, und Infektionskrankheiten, 2. Abt., 8 (1902), Nos. 24, pp. 774-776; 25, pp. 798-805. Bibliography of animal and plant parasites of trees in the Tropics. The report was received and placed on file.

FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

A. C. TRUE. Since this was a matter in which the association at its last session showed so much interest, it seemed desirable to put before the association a report of the progress made in organizing this work.

As you have been already informed by the chairman of the executive committee, Congress, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, with the very efficient aid of the executive committee of this association, was induced to include in the bill making appropriations for the Department a clause which distinctly recognized this work as a part of the business of the Department of Agriculture and, by the assignment of the Secretary, the general charge of the work has been committed to the Office of Experiment Stations, and we have begun active operations.

The first question which we had to determine was the general policy according to which this work should be carried on. It was easily and naturally decided that, since the management of the farmers' institutes had been inaugurated and carried on entirely by the States, it was in no way the function of the Department of Agriculture under existing legislation to attempt the management of these institutes, but that it was its business rather to recognize clearly in all its work the State management of the institutes and to cooperate with the State officers and aid them in every possible way to build up the institutes in the several States. And thus we have come into definite relations with the State managers of the institutes in all the States where the institutes are now held. It will be our policy to confer constantly with them and to try in our work to meet the needs of the several States as well as to act as a general agency for coordinating and strengthening this work throughout the country.

After an investigation of the general situation, with a view to deciding upon the special line of work we should follow, in view of the limited funds at our disposal, we came to the conclusion that the most important thing was to increase, so far as we could, the efficiency of the institute lecturers.

There is now in the United States a body of men numbering somewhat over 800 who lecture in these institutes. Less than half of this number are men engaged in the work of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations. There is, therefore, a considerable body of men outside of the colleges and stations who especially need advice and assistance with reference to the progress of agricultural movements, especially along educational and scientific lines. So we have begun to get into intimate relations through the State organizations with these institute lecturers. We desire to help them in every way possible, and our chief effort now is to devise ways and means for giving them the most efficient assistance.

We are doing this work with different objects in view. Primarily, of course, we desire to build up the institutes and make them most efficient; but we also desire,

through our close contact with the institute lecturers, to help to bring them into closer relations to the agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and in this way ultimately to build up a force of men throughout the country who will be able to carry the great burden of the institute work.

Under present conditions, as you know, the officers of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations are not only greatly interested in the farmers' institutes, but are carrying a heavy burden of work in connection with them; and in a good many individual instances this burden is already so heavy that we have felt that it has interfered to a certain extent with their work as teachers and investigators in connection with the colleges and stations.

Now, it is obvious that under present conditions the college and station officers must to a considerable extent take the leadership in this institute movement, and they must make some sacrifices in order to help on this great movement for the education of the masses of our farmers. At the same time we ought to look forward to the day when we shall have a thoroughly equipped body of institute lecturers, who, while they are in close touch with the agricultural colleges and experiment stations, will be able to relieve the teachers in the colleges and the investigators in the stations from any considerable burden of institute work.

There is no change in the general policy of the Department with regard to this matter. We still hold that it is the primary and chief business of the station officers to investigate and of the college officers to teach in the colleges, and that they should help the institutes only so far as may be necessary under present conditions to get this movement on a right basis and to keep them in touch with the actual problems with which our farmers have to deal.

Under the legislation regarding farmers' institutes as related to the Department, one of our special duties is to aid in the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department and the stations among the farmers; and to this we are giving special attention: On the part of the Department the effort will be made to bring the officers of the Department in its different branches in closer touch with the institutes by having those officers go out more than they have been accustomed to do in the past to speak at the institutes in different parts of the country.

Of course it would not be possible, if it were desirable, for the Department officers to speak at the institutes generally, but it is our hope that in the "round-up" institutes, as they are called, and in other meetings where representative men are gathered together from a considerable region, the Department may be represented hereafter more frequently than it has been in the past.

To take immediate charge of this work in the Office of Experiment Stations, Prof. John Hamilton, formerly in charge of the department of agriculture of the State of Pennsylvania, has been appointed and has already entered on the service. It is his desire, as well as our own, that the college and station men here and generally in the States represented here should give him such suggestions regarding this work and such aid as they can. He would like to come in touch with them personally and through correspondence as much as possible. So I hope that during this convention and at other times you will get acquainted with him and come to understand the work he is trying to do in this line.

I do not want to close this imperfect statement regarding our efforts in this direction without trying to impress on you more fully the greatness and importance of this farmers' institute enterprise. I have not realized it myself until recently. The work undoubtedly has grown in importance and in strength quite rapidly in very recent years. When we consider that these institutes are practically held annually in every county of the United States and that they are attended in the aggregate by something like a million people who are engaged in the farming business, I think we can see that here is a force which, if it can be properly organized, will be of tremendous significance in the future development of the agriculture

of this country, in the building up of a proper system of agricultural education and research, and in bringing up a generation of farmers who will understand and appreciate what the colleges and the experiment stations and other educational agencies are doing in behalf of agriculture.

And so, as far as the general interests of the institutions composing this association are concerned, it seems to me there is no subject which can more deserve their interest and sympathy; and I think that, if the managers of our colleges and experiment stations, as well as the officers who are engaged in the work, will look into this matter they will be convinced, as those of us have been convinced who have had occasion to look into it, that here is a force with which they ought to deal actively and out of which, properly organized, may grow great good to these institutions and to our country.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR MINING SCHOOLS AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

E. B. Andrews, of Nebraska, submitted the following resolution, which was referred to the executive committee:

Resolved, That the executive committee of the association be instructed to continue the effort to secure favorable action by Congress on the mining-school bill and for increasing the annual appropriation for the experiment stations.

The resolution was subsequently favorably reported to the association by the executive committee and agreed to.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON INDEXING AGRICULTURAL LITERATURE.

A. C. True read the report of the committee on indexing agricultural literature, as follows:

During the past year considerable progress has been made by the Department of Agriculture in the indexing of the literature of agriculture and agricultural science. The library of the Department has regularly issued printed index cards for the Department publications. An extra number of sets of the index for the last Yearbook and for the later numbers of the Farmers' Bulletins have been printed to meet the demand for small libraries which have use for these publications. The library has received an increase of appropriation which will enable it to extend its indexing, and arrangements have been made to prepare a card index of agricultural periodicals which shall be uniform with the cards already distributed. Indexes for the "Landwirthschaftliche Jahrbücher" and "Annales de la science agronomique" are ready for publication. The periodicals relating to general agricultural which are most frequently consulted, complete sets of which are in the Department library, will be indexed first. In addition to the distribution of cards to agricultural colleges and experiment stations, provision will be made for their sale to institutions and individuals who may wish to procure them.

The Department library has also made arrangements which will make it possible for other libraries to obtain from the Library of Congress catalogue cards for publications on agriculture. During the past six months of the fiscal year the copy for current accessions to the library has been transmitted to the printing division of the Library of Congress for printing upon cards. Extra copies of these cards are available at a small cost on application to the Librarian of Congress. These cards may be ordered by simply sending the serial number found in the bulletin of "Accessions to the Department Library," and catalogue cards containing full descriptions of the books can thus be secured by agricultural college and station libraries at less cost than they could be prepared by each library. Special attention is called to the availability of this particular bibliographical matter relating to agriculture.

The card catalogue of the Department library now contains about 110,000 cards, derived from the following sources: (1) Cards for the current accessions; (2) index cards for the publications of the Department; (3) cards for articles published in certain scientific periodicals and issued by the publishing branch of the American Library Association; (4) cards for certain books in the Library of Congress which are of occasional interest to workers in the Department, and from their accessibility in the Library of Congress are not purchased by this library; and (5) cards for current botanical literature prepared by the New York Botanical Garden.

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The library is thus in a position to render more efficient aid than ever before to

the agricultural colleges and experiment stations by furnishing them information regarding agricultural and related literature, loaning books to the officers of these institutions with certain restrictions, and assisting in maintaining the agricultural libraries of these institutions on a more efficient basis.

The Office of Experiment Stations has now in press a general index to the first 12 volumes of the Experiment Station Record and Experiment Station Bulletin No. 2 It thus begins with the work of the experiment stations under the Hatch Act and covers the period down to the close of 1900. This index contains about 125,000 entries, and is undoubtedly the most extensive index to the literature of agricultural experimentation which has ever been prepared.

The Card Index of Experiment Station Literature issued by this Office has now reached No. 24600, and is quite closely up-to-date.

There is still need that this association should continue active efforts along this line. Many of the institutions represented in the association should give greater attention to the better organization of their library work. The indexes on cards and in books already available should be so cared for and kept as to make them more thoroughly useful to the students and faculties. Continued efforts will also be necessary to secure from Congress additional funds as they may be needed to increase and keep up-to-date the indexing of agricultural literature on the plans now being worked out by the Department library.

A. C. TRUE,

T. F. HUNT,
W. M. HAYS,
E. DAVENPORT,
JOSEPHINE A. CLARK,

Committee.

The report was accepted, and on motion of E. B. Andrews, of Nebraska, the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations was requested to furnish this report in printed form to the librarians of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations at as early a date as possible.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON UNIFORM FERTILIZER AND FEEDING-STUFFS Laws.

H. J. Wheeler, of Rhode Island, submitted the following report of the committee on uniform fertilizer and feeding-stuffs laws:

In the course of the past year your committee, as heretofore, has been in correspondence with parties in the several States who were interested in the passage of new fertilizer laws or in the amendment of existing ones.

Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah have not yet felt the necessity of legislation in this line. In Colorado and Arkansas recent attempts to pass such laws have been failures. The following reports have been received from some of the other States:

Ex-Director H. A. Huston, of Indiana, reports that the existence of the recommendations of this association was of much assistance in connection with the steps taken to amend the old fertilizer law in that State. The law as enacted was made to correspond to the recommendations in certain particulars; and the other points were practically all left to the discretion of the executive officers, thus rendering it possible to make rules in accordance with the recommendations.

Prof. E. F. Ladd, of North Dakota, reports that at the last session of the legislature in that State a fertilizer law was enacted and that the bill was drawn in accordance with the recommendations of this association, which, he says, were very helpful in the preparation of the bill and in securing the necessary legislation thereon.

R. E. Rose, State chemist, Tallahassee, Fla., writes that the law in that State has recently been amended to conform in so far as possible with the recommendations concerning uniformity. He adds that the recommendations were of material service. Prof. F. B. Mumford, of Missouri, reports that the law in that State has been amended recently, and that the recommendations were of much assistance.

President J. M. McBryde, of Virginia, reported, July 4, 1903, that changes in the law in that State were then being considered, and that amendments in the line of the recommendations were being urged. In conclusion, he says, it "follows, therefore, that your recommendations will be helpful in securing the legislation needed."

Director H. P. Armsby reports that the recently amended law of Pennsylvania conforms very largely in substance to the recommendations.

Director A. M. Soule, of Tennessee, states that a new law was passed in that State in April, 1903. The law was drawn with the object of making it conform with the