TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT m 



taken on my previous recommendations with regard to funds 

 for the investigation of animal diseases and insects injurious to 

 agricultural products, the purchase of books necessary to com- 

 plete sets now in the central scientific library, reissuing exhausted 

 editions of certain publications, or enlarging the scope of our 

 present work on the fish and fisheries of the Philippine Islands. 

 The wisdom of providing funds for this work is as evident as 

 heretofore, and I heartily recommend that appropriations for 

 these purposes be made when funds are available. 



Tables showing the routine work performed and supplies man- 

 ufactured and disposed of during the fiscal year 1912-13 by the 

 Bureau, and a financial statement showing the appropriation and 

 how it was expended, are attached hereto. 



Alvin J. Cox, 

 Acting Director, Bureau of Science. 



To the Honorable, 



The Secretary of the Interior. 



