DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 769 



The chief of the Division of Publications is authorized to honor requests of this 

 character to the extent set forth above. Any unused credit in one month may be 

 curied over and used in the succeeding month. In order to simplify the records, the 

 '"authorization slips" will no longer be required. The miscellaneous orders on the 

 Division of Publications for the sending of publications shall be made out in duplicate 

 and both copies sent direct to the chief of that division. The Division of Publications 

 shall keep a record of the original order of the number of publications sent, the date 

 forwarded, and the postage required, and shall return the duplicate (carbon) copy 

 with the same information to the bureau or office which ordered the publications. 

 In case the publications are furnished by the bureaus, etc., the method of procedure 

 shall be the same, except that the order shall state that the publications accompanied 

 it. Fiu-ther information as to the details will be furnished by the librarian of the 

 department, who will also provide the necessary blanks. 



(c) REVISION OF MAILING LISTS. 



A.11 mailing lists maintained at present by the biireaus and divisions should be 

 re^^sed in accordance with the above regulations and revised copies furnished to the 

 librarian of the department at the earliest practicable date. Lists shall hereafter be 

 revised at least once in two years. 



(d) exchanges. 



All exchanges received in return for department publications shall be sent to the 

 library, ^\^len arranging exchanges with institutions, societies, and journals, the 

 bureaus and divisions shall request that the exchanges be addressed to the library 

 of the department, imless the library is already receiving a sufficient number of 

 copies. 



This order supersedes General Orders, Nos. 64, 66, and 96. and supplements in detail 

 the recommendations in regard to publications in the Report of the Department 

 Committee on Efficiency and Economy. 



James "Wilson, Secretary. 



The conditions governing the distribution of publications con- 

 tained in this order were carefully observed. 



EDITING. 



The most noteworthy chasge in the personnel during the year was 

 the retirement of Mr. tleorge Wm. Hill, who resigned the middle of 

 September, 1911. The numerical strength of the section was main- 

 tained by the transfer of Mr. R. S. Moore from the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. 



The general order of June 21, 1911, that all proofreading and 

 revising, except such as is done by the author, be done in the Division 

 of Publications, has not required any increase in the number of 

 editors. Its more general observance by the various bureaus would 

 expedite the work and reduce the cost. 



The editing of all the bulletins issued by various bureaus of the 

 department and conferences with the different chiefs and authors 

 entailed in the performance of this duty consume much time, but 

 are necessarv to enable the chief to properly advise the Secretary as 

 to what is being pubhshed, and to judiciously expend the general 

 printing fund. 



The editors relieve both the Secretary and the bureau chiefs of 

 much attention to details, and, because of the centralization of the 

 work, necessarily secure better and more economical results tliau 

 would be otherwise accomplished. 



There could be no bettor statement of the efTicioncy of this ofTio 

 than that afforded bv the following table, which shows that with an 



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