806 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



On account of the decrease in the funds available for the purchase 

 of books, little progress was made during the past year in completing 

 files of periodicals. The only important sets completed were the 

 following: 



Beihefte zum Botanischen centralblatt. 



Deutsche fleischbeschauer-zeitung. 



Entomologipke meddelelser. 



Germany-lleichsamt des innern. Berichte liber handel und industrio. 



Schweizerische botaniscbe gesellschaft. Berichte. 



At the beginning of the past year, the Library began to reap the 

 benefit of the recent copyright legislation (sec. 59, new copyright law), 

 which permits the Library of Congress to transfer to Government 

 libraries, if not needed in the Library of Congress, one of the two 

 copies of every volume copyrighted in the United States which are, 

 accordmg to the copyright law, sent to the Library of Congress. 

 The Library has accordingly during the past year been selecting from 

 the copyright material avaiJa])lo for transfer to Government libraries 

 such items as were of interest in tliis Library. The number of books 

 and pamphlets received durmg the year was 293. These are included 

 in the record of gifts to the Library noted above. It is interesting, 

 historically, to note in this connection that the Report of the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture for the year 1893, in the paragraph on the Depart- 

 ment library (p. 38), contams the following suggestion: 



Two copies of every volume copyrighted in the United States are, under existing 

 law, placed with the Librarian of Congress. Therefore he has duplicates of each 

 work upon agriculture thus far copyrighted in the United States. It is suggested that 

 Congress enact that its librarian transfer to the library of this department one copy 

 of each of the works bearing upon agriculture, horticulture, forestry, pomology, botany, 

 and kindred topics now in his possession or that may come into his hands hereafter 

 under copyright law. This would, without additional cost to the Govemmerrt, and 

 much to the depletion of the present inutility of duplicate books in the Congressional 

 Library, add a great many valuable volumes to the agricultural literature of this 

 Department. 



CATALOGUING. 



There were catalogued during the past year 2,459 volumes, 833 

 pamphlets, 5,800 contmuations, 10 photographs, and 20 maps, mak- 

 mg a total of 9,122, an increase of 306 over the previous year. There 

 were added to the mam (dictionary) catalogue 30,138 cards and 3,361 

 were withdraAvn, making the net addition 26,777, an iaerease of 7,525 

 as compared with the previous year. It is estimated that the main 

 dictionary catalogue now contains approximately 286,000 cards. 



The number of titles prepared during the fiscal year by the Library 

 for printing by the Library of Congress in what is known as the "Agr 

 series, compared with the previous year, was as follows: 



19n. 1912. 



Cards for accessions and recatalogued books 1, 557 1, 872 



Cards for department publications 355 449 



Cards for foreign agricultural periodicals 68 61 



Total 1, 980 2, 382 



The total number of titles prepared by this Library since 1902, in 

 which year the prmting of cards was begun, is 20,483. For the benefit 

 of other agricultural libraries, there is given as an appendix to this 

 report a complete list of the series for which this Library prepares 

 cards for printing by the Library of Congress. The number of new 

 titles added to the list in the past year was 23. 



