218 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



In submitting estimates for the liscal year 1904 the following recom- 

 mendations are respeetfiillj' made: (1) An increase in the salarj^ roll 

 of $3,400 to provide for the employment of two additional assistants 

 (one to be a stenographer), at 11,000 each, and the transfer of one 

 field naturalist at $1,400, now paid from the fund for l)iological 

 investigations. (2) An increase in the appropriation for biological 

 investigations of $10,000 — $3,000 to extend field work in California 

 and Texas, $5,000 to assist in carrj^ingout the provisions of the Lacey 

 Act, 11,000 for the preparation and elaboration of material for publi- 

 cation, and $1,000 for the collation of data and mapping the distribu- 

 tion of mammals and birds. 



