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tongues of almost six hundred million people, and in the opinion of 

 President Cappelli " there could be no better proof of the value of 

 our publications than the fact that the countries at the head of 

 agricultural progress are publishing editions of them in their own 

 languages at their own expense." 



The publications of the institute during the biennium were aug- 

 mented by the addition of two annuals and a considerable number of 

 monographs. One of these has the title of Annuaire de legislation 

 agricole, and is a collection in the French language of the laws of 

 the various nations which relate to agriculture. The text of the 

 more important enactments is given in full and others in abstract or 

 by title, all being indexed by subject and by countries. The issue 

 for 1912 appeared recently, thus affording a compilation of much 

 timeliness and applicability. 



The second new annual is the Iritemational Yearbook of Agri- 

 culturaZ Statistics, instituted in accordance with plans evolved at the 

 1911 session of the General Assembly. As its name implies, this is 

 a world review of statistics pertaining to the production of crops 

 and live stock, and presents each year a large amount of tabular data 

 on these items for the ten years preceding. Many difficulties were 

 encountered in the preparation of this and other statistical publica- 

 tions of the institute, but it is announced that one result of its 

 endeavors has been to aid greatly in stimulating interest in the col- 

 lection of such data along uniform lines. The work under way in 

 this direction received the commendation of the commission on sta- 

 tistics, and additional development was advocated, including con- 

 tinued cooperation by the Permanent Committee with the Inter- 

 national Institute of Statistics, which meets in Vienna this autumn, 

 and the collection of more detailed data as to live stock, meat pro- 

 duction and consumption, and commerce in wheat, oats, rye, barley, 

 corn, and cotton. 



Another indication of the increased activities of the institute is 

 afforded in the growth of the library, which has increased from 

 38,961 to 53,716 volumes. This is exclusive of the periodicals and 

 similar material which form the principal sources of supply of the 

 abstract journals, and now number over 2,200 and average about 250 

 pieces per day. It is of interest to note that these figures are sub- 

 stantially the same as those reported by the Library of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, the coincidence being the more 

 remarkable since the similarity is doubtless mainly in numbers alone. 



Some of the most important lines of work under way are those 

 under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and 

 Plant Diseases and referred to Commission III. Much improvement 

 has been achieved in the monthly Bulletin of the bureau, the com- 

 prehensive aim of which was stated by President Cappelli as follows : 



