20 



EXPENDITURES. 



Expenses of the executive committee $1, 123. 85 



I.:xi)eiises of the secretary and treasurer (postage, printins?, telegrams, 



etc.) .^ 19. 49 



Services of tlie joint agent of the passenger associations at Des Moines 17. 00 



Total 1, IGO. 31 



Balance on hand October 31, 1904 *. G33. 02 



E. B. VooRHEES. Sccrctanj-Trcasiirer. 



On motion, the report was referred to an auditing connnittee consisting of 

 J. L. Hills, of Vermont, and E. A. Bryan, of Washington, which subsequently 

 reported, as follows: 



Your committee on auditing the accounts of the treasurer resjiectfully reports 

 that it ha.s surveyed the books of that ollice. finds them well kept, finds reet'ipts, 

 expenditures, and lia.lance as stated in his report, and finds proper vouchers 

 supi>orting all expenditures. 



JosEiMi L. Hills. 

 E. A. Bryan, 



Comiitittcc. 

 On motion, the report was adopted. 



Report of Bibliographer. 



The report of the bibliographer. A. C. True, was ])resented. as follows: 

 During the past year the Department of Agriculture has continued the publi- 

 catinn of the index catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology and has also 

 issued special bibliographies of agricultural text-books, school gardens, insects, 

 etc. The usual annual reports concerning the literature and general progress in 

 chemistry, botany, zoology, jilant diseases, veterinary medicine, and other gen- 

 eral subjects have appeared. Among the list of bibliographies noted below 

 there are many important ones which deal pretty thoroughly with special fields 

 on which good bibliographies did not hitherto exi.st. Among these subjects we 

 may mention the following: Molds j)athogenic for animals: The function of 

 salt in the animal organism; Sericulture; Effect of gases upon cultivated 

 plants ; Economic value of birds ; Insect eneihies of books ; Hemorrhagic septi- 

 cemia ; Plant breeding; Blood innnunity and blood relationship as determined 

 by precipitin tests for blood; Partheiiogenesis ; The constituents of milk; 

 Texas fever; Tiie feeding value of sugar-beet piUp and molasses; India rubber 

 and gutta-percha ; Roup of fowls ; Avian tuberculosis ; and Drinking water. 



On account of the unusual interest aroused in the subject of tuberculosis as a 

 result of Koch's theories, a great number of bildiographies relating to the differ- 

 ent phases of this disease have been prepared and published in connection with 

 articles containing the results of the investigations. All of the l)il)liographies 

 which have just been referred to are noted more fully in the list of OS titles 

 which follows : 



AxDKEASCH, It., and Spiko, K. Jahresbericht fiber die Fortschritte der Tier- 

 Chemie (Annual report on the progress in animal chemistryj. Jahresbericht 

 fiber die Tortschritte der rier-Chemie, 32 (1902), iip. 1141, An extended 

 review of the literature of animal cliemistry for the year 1902, 



Bailey, L. H. Dexelopment of the text-book of agriculture in North America. 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, OMice of Experiment Stations Reiioit 

 1903, pp. (JS9-712. A chronological bil)liography of North American text- 

 books of agriculture is appended to a discussion of this sulj.fect. 



Banks, N. A revision of the Nearctic Chrysoi)i(he. Transactions of the Ameri- 

 can Entomological Society, 29 (1903), No. 2. \)\). 137-102. A list of IS refer- 

 ences to the literature of the subject is api)ended to the article. 



