842 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



an experiment .station, and then suddenly changed to the botanical 

 department of the technical museum in the same town, making it 

 uncertain whether both series of publications should be retained on 

 the list, or one substituted for the other. 



Part of this difficulty is due to carelessness in adhering to a uniform 

 serial title for the publications of an institution or a department of it, 

 and part to lack of continuity of the work and lack of organization. 

 No one who has not had to deal with these matters, as a librarian or a 

 reviewing editor has to, can fully appreciate the difficulties it gives rise 

 to, or the real disadvantage to the institutions or investigators them- 

 selves, in burying their publications from the public. But, remember- 

 ing the great difficulty in securing regularity in the bulletins of our 

 own experiment stations, it is easier to account for a lack of consist- 

 ency where publication is less frequent and the continuity less certain. 



