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farm laborers." The carrying out of this work has been delegated to 

 a bureau under the direction of Prof. Giovanni Lorenzoni, and begin- 

 ning with September 30, 1910, a monthly Bulletin of the Bureau of 

 Economic and Social Intelligence has been issued dealing with these 

 subjects. The initial numbers have dealt especially with the present 

 status of agricultural cooperation and the wages of farm laborers, 

 this presentation being preliminary to more detailed studies. The 

 publication is printed in French, and for the present in English 

 editions as well, and each number contains about 400 pages of mate- 

 rial, arranged on a geographical basis and summarizing available 

 data, as well as monogi'aphs on certain phases of the subject, news 

 notes as to the progress of agricultural cooperation, and other items 

 of related interest. It is announced that subsequently it is hoped 

 through direct collaboration with the various countries to arrange for 

 the publication of original material as well. 



A tliird serial publication is the Bulletin Bihliographique Heh- 

 clormulaire^ which is now in its second volume. This consists of two 

 portions, the first a classified list of the accessions received by the 

 library of the Institute during the week under review, thus corre- 

 sponding in a general way to the ^Monthly Bulletin of the Library 

 issued by this Department, and the second a similarly classified list 

 of articles of general agricultural interest which have appeared in 

 the serial publications received. Brief notes as to the scope of these 

 articles accompany the reference to them in some cases. 



The remaining serial publication of the Institute, Bulletin of the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and of Plant Diseases^ has the 

 announced purpose to " review without delay the scientific and tech- 

 nical, and in part the legislative, literature of agriculture and the 

 allied industries,'' and to furnish " a periodical summary of the agri- 

 cultural literature of the world." It is published monthly, each 

 number reviewing material received for the month preceding, and 

 thus far each number has contained about 200 pages. At present 

 both English and French editions are issued. 



The supervision of this publication is intrusted to two directors, 

 Prof. Italo Giglioli and Dr. Jules M. Saulnier. They are assisted 

 by a corps of 11 abstractors and several translators. 



Inasmuch as the statistical and economic phases of agriculture are 

 provided for in the Institute publications already described, it is the 

 announced intention to restrict this Bulletin to "the domain of the 

 physical, chemical, biological, and technical conditions which gov- 

 ern farm and forest." In the numbers which have thus far appeared, 

 however, while the more scientific phases have been by no means dis- 

 regarded, there is still an evident preference in the selection of ma- 

 terial for review for articles of a popular nature and of immediate 

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