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consideration at this meeting. As it has been a short period of time (only a few 

 weeks) in which to investigate, this report must necessarily be incomplete; yet it is 

 hoped that it may be sufficient ly comprehensive to enable you to act intelligentlj^ in 

 this important matter. 



Statistics of the Bibliography 



The Bibliography of American Economic Entomology was published in eight 

 parts, altogether containing 1,318 pages, 12,655 citations, and is complete up to Jan- 

 uary 1, 1905. Since then no indexing has been done. 



The Bibliography was printed in 10-point type, the type bed of the page measuring 

 4f X 7^ inches in size. Part VIII contained 111 pages, 1,882 citations (or an average 

 of 16.4 per page) and there are 41 lines per page. It has an index of 20 pages set in 

 6-point type. 



Plan for Continuing the Bibliography 



In view of the fact that the Bibliography of American Economic Entomology is 

 extremely useful to every applied entomologist; that its special field has not been 

 covered by any subsequent work, and as a consequence almost every economic ento- 

 mologist is forced to maintain a more or less complete special catalogue (which can 

 be covered more satisfactorily in a general bibliography) and as a result there is 

 throughout the country much undesirable duplication of easily avoided clerical 

 work;^this affects not onh^ entomologists throughout the country, but also the 

 workers in the Bureau of Entomology, and owing to the larger force employed there, 

 this compilation will be more useful in the Federal Bureau of Entomology than to 

 any other similar group of entomologists; — the members of this committee are most 

 strongly of the opinion that the work should be published by the general government, 

 or, if that be impossible, the citations should at least be assembled and indexed in 

 the Bureau of Entomology. 



The committee recommends that if other means fail, the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists continue this Bibliography; that a carefully selected index- 

 ing committee or board be appointed to serve without compensation, to consist of 

 five members, who shall be charged with the preparation of the manuscript. 



This committee also recommends that the first issue (Part IX) cover the ten-year 

 period from January 1, 1905, to January 1, 1915; that it be printed in a form similar 

 to earlier numbers and under the direction of the editorial board of the Journal of 

 Economic Entomology. Such a publication, including text and index, will prob- 

 ably contain not more than 350 pages, and should be sold at such a price that the 

 early sales will about cover the cost of publishing. 



Probable Cost of Publishing Part IX 



The cost of printing Part IX depends primarily upon the number of citations. 

 Part VIII contains 1,882 citations, or an average of 374 per year, for the five-year 

 period ending January 1, 1905. There has probably been a substantial increase since 

 then, which cannot be accurately estimated, but allowing for 600 per year or a total 

 of 6,000 citations for the ten-year period, the text would contain not more than 300 

 pages, if set in 10-point type, with two lines for each reference. The index would 

 not make over 40 pages in 6-point type. . If there are more than 6,000 references, 

 the book would be larger. If there are only 5,000 references the text will make about 

 250 pages. 



The approximate cost of publishing has been variously estimated at from $475 to 

 $550 depending upon the type used. These figures include paper and press work 

 and are based on an edition of 1,000 copies. 



