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practical interest, and a tendency to give considerable space to the 

 economic significance of the data presented. In this respect the point 

 of view of the Bulletin difl'ers from that of Experiment Station 

 Record, in which the aim has been rather to present the new scientific 

 truths which have been discovered, with reference to their bearing on 

 the fundamental principles of the agTicultural industry. Whereas 

 the Record is designed for the use of the agricultural investigator and 

 teacher rather than directly by the farmer, the treatment in the 

 Bulletin is such as to afford assistance to both classes of readers. 



With the large and constantly increasing body of agricultural 

 workers, scattered through so many lands and jDresenting their re- 

 sults in so many tongues and so diverse mediums, the establishment of 

 agencies for the assembling, preservation, and dissemination of the 

 results of the vast fund of agricultural knowledge which is accumulat- 

 ing becomes of increasing unportance with every year. The oblivion 

 in which the work of Mendel was buried for man^^ years may be 

 cited as a well-known instance of what has doubtless not infrequently 

 befallen important researches reported in obscure publications and 

 remaining unknown to the average investigator. By reason of its 

 international organization and other facilities at its disposal the 

 International Institute of Agriculture would seem to have before it 

 unusual opportunities to act as a clearing house of agricultural sta- 

 tistics and literature. Its activities along these lines will be most 

 heartily welcomed by the workers in agricultural science of the world, 

 to whom, if it is accorded the support necessary, it should be able to 

 render valuable service. 



To meet the recent increase in volume of the literature reviewed 

 in Exfeinment Station Record^ arrangements have been made for 

 an additional abstract number in each volume, beginning with the 

 current one. In this way each volume will hereafter contain nine 

 numbers and an index. It is hoped that the extension may make it 

 possible to keep the published reviews quite closely up to date. 



