TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT 99 



worth while to strive for greater similarity of type and head- 

 ings than has existed. 



The stock of the "Publications" folder issued in 1911 was 

 exhausted. As the old folder has been found to be convenient 

 and effective, the same make-up with the necessary additions 

 has been used for a new edition. 



The Bureau of Science Press Bulletins, which heretofore have 

 been used exclusively for material from the division of mines 

 of this Bureau, were made more general in character, and will 

 in the future include information of a suitable character from 

 any division of the Bureau. 



Two years ago the mailing list of the Journal comprised 

 722 names and last year 855. It was our desire to make it an 

 even thousand at the end of the present fiscal year, and we are 

 only three short of that number, an increase over last year of 

 142 names, of which 106 were paid subscriptions. Of the 997 

 names on the mailing list, 447 are "paid" subscriptions, 427 

 are exchanges, 74 are for review, and 49 are free copies. The 

 increase in paid subscriptions during the year has been 30 per 

 cent as against an increase of between 20 and 25 per cent for 

 last year. 



The matter of keeping the Journal and publications accounts 

 paid up is one of considerable difficulty, but each year seems 

 to show better results. In every instance our outstanding 

 accounts are less than they were at the end of the last fiscal 

 year, and at the same time more Journals and publications have 

 been sold. The total receipts from the Journal and other pub- 

 lications have been ?=6,021.09, or ?=1,272.57 more than for the 

 last fiscal year. The fact that our outstanding accounts are 

 at present less than those at the end of the last fiscal year will 

 reduce this gain somewhat. It is estimated that the cost of 

 printing the Journal and reprints therefrom for free distribu- 

 tion to contributors has been ^23,407.48 for the present year 

 as against ^17,918.15 for the previous year. However, the very 

 large number of plates and great number of pages in the plague 

 number of Section B, the memorial number, and other unusual 

 expenses have tended to add to the total cost of printing. 



The value of the general publications of the Bureau of Science 

 sold is ^=1,807.57, or ?=84.05 more than for the previous fiscal 

 year, but ^496.10 less than in 1911, owing largely to the fact 

 that The Bontoc Igorot by A. E. Jenks and No. 8 of Volume I 

 of the Journal which contained an article on the Non-Christian 

 Tribes of Northern Luzon by the Honorable Dean C. Worcester 



