344 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMP:NT OF AGRICULTURE. 



in " Phytopathology." After many iinavoidcible dehiys the " Clieck 

 List of the l*nblications of the Department of Agriculture on Plant 

 Pathology " has been issued in mimeographed form as Xo. 1 of the 

 new series, entitled '' Bibliographical Contributions of the Library of 

 the Department." The list was prepared in the library of the Bureau 

 of Plarit Industry. Over 500 requests for the list have been received. 

 A similar list of reports and bulletins on the subject of plant pathol- 

 ogy published by other institutions is in preparation. The Library 

 has continued its work in connection with verification and editing of 

 bibliographies contained in publications of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry and in the Journal of Agricultural Research. Bibli- 

 ographies in 94 manuscripts were verified and edited during the 

 year. In the fall of 1918 the librarian of the bureau, in cooperation, 

 with Miss Atwood, bibliographical assistant of the Office of Economic 

 and Systematic Botany, assisted Dr. H. L. Shantz in organizing his 

 survey of the literature of Africa for the purpose of abstracting 

 material on the natural vegetation and ajiricultural resources to be 



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used in making maps for '' The Inquiry' 



The l)ibliogi'aphical work of the Office of Farm ^Management has 

 been along the same lines as mentioned in previous reports; that is, 

 the preparation of selected lists on the cost of crop production. The 

 lists on cost of Avheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, cotton, sugar beets, 

 silage, and milk have been brought up to date, and a limited number 

 are to be mimeographed. The indexing of farm management sub- 

 ject matter is being continued. 



Lists of the publications of their respective bureaus or divisions 

 were prepared during the year by the librarians of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, Bureau of Markets, the Dairy Division, and the Office 

 of Farm Management. 



IMention has been made in previous reports of the work of ]Sliss 

 Marjorie F. Warner and j\Iiss Alice C. Atwood, bibliographical 

 assistants of the Office of Economic and Systematic Botany of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. The project under Avhich they Avork is 

 called "■ Bibliographical Investigations in the Interest of Botanical 

 Science." While not connected with the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 library or the main Library, the liberal spirit in which the project 

 was established several years ago under Mr. F. V. Coville, the chief 

 of the office, and has been carried on from year to year, tends to 

 bring it into closer relations with the work of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry library and the main Library. It therefore seems fitting 

 to give liere soine extracts from Miss Warner's report on the year's 

 work. The flcxi])ility of the project is a factor of great strength as 

 it not only lends itself readily to man^^ definite cooperative enter- 

 prises wntiiin the Department but also has large privileges and re- 

 sponsibilities in relations outside the Department. 



Following are some extracts from Miss Warner's report : 



Our activities of the past year seem to class tlieniselves duetly under llie 

 head of coopenition. First and foremost in importance is i)ro.iiTes.s on the 

 Botanical Catalojiue. I'ractically all periodicals received by the Department, 

 toj,'ether with a nuniher from the Library of (.'on.i:rcss, possibly 500 or GOO 

 .iournals and reports in all, are examined for Ixdaniciil articles and informa- 

 tion, and possibly To per cent of such matei-ial included in tlu' catalogue. About 

 llie mi<l(lle of ll'ie year the circulation of periodicals formerly maintained by 

 llie bureau Librai-y was found to be no lon.tz:er tenable, and a method was 

 sought to brills; the contents of the journals to the notice of the scientists with 



