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UIJITED STATES DEFAKTIEITT OF :\a?JCULTJ?.a. 

 LI^RAPY 

 WaSHII'IOTO.:^, D. C. 



Number 3. Bibliographic-ii Contributions. January l'^21. 



A CHECK LIS? 07 TriE PUBLICATIONS OF THE 3UPEAU OF PI.AJT 

 I^TDUSTPy, it'Ol-iyiTD, rND OF TEF DI''a?IOrS AND 

 0FFIC2S TTrtlCH C»:3I!:ET^ to FOPCi THIS 

 BUREAU, 1862-1&01. 



Pr3(pared by Je-jsie M. Alien, Bui'sau of Plant Industry Library. 



This lict has been prejared m an effort to assist librarians and 

 others who may be interested in checking their files of the DepartLient's . 

 publications on plant industry. It is hoped that it will eliminate some 

 of the confusion in reg-yrd to the sarias of bulletins and reports on 

 plant industry subjects, due to the many changes in the organization of 

 the offices dsaiiiig with these subjects. Although none of the seprrate 

 offices .vhick .vere cocrdixaat«d m 1900 to form the Pui'eau of Plant In- 

 dustry have since that oinij icsued sepai'ats sorios of publications, with 

 the 3>cc3ptiGn of occasional office circulars, this fact is not clear in 

 the aiinds of .Tiany '.vho are attsmptin-^ to proc-^u-e fulx files of the publi- 

 cations. This lir-t is not expected to tare :;he place of an index or cat- 

 alog of the publication-3. but merely to serve as a check list, and to 

 furnish tOi historical survey of iha seri'ij in which the various publica- 

 tions have been issued. 



Lisginning with the earlier t days of the Republic, Goveriiiaent of- 

 ^ ficials including officers cf the Am.y and Na-'/y and consuls, as well as 



I private citizens, interested theiiSelves m inserting to the United States 

 in; plants and animals for the general benefit. Con./ress ir.ade the first 

 6^ appropriation to aid this enterprise, in i639, ko.be expended by the 



I Coiiinissioner of Patents. 



In 1852 the worK along these lines vvai grouped into a Department 

 under a Conojissioner,. while in 1886 t^e Eepartment becniiie one of the 

 executive departments, and its Secretary '/as given a place on the Cabinet 



In the early days of the Departii-.ent, all the results cf its .vork 

 were published in the arinual or special reports of the Department. As 

 Vv the investigational .vork ox the Department gre^, its organisation nec- 



^ essarily became more corapiex, ana separate divisions or sections were 

 ^ created to study the different, lines of work. As each special di-i- 

 sion was organized, this division issued its own series of bulletins 

 and circulai's, setting forth its results. 



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The Bureau of Plant Industry vas one of four bureaus organizea 

 during the fiscal year 1900/0i in .ccorcance with an act of Congress. 

 This act authorized the bringijvg to;-,eiher of the plant pl-ysiological 

 and pathological mvestigatiors, the bctarical investigations, the 

 grass and forage plant investigations, the .vcrk on poniolcgy, and the 

 experimental gardens and ground?; ai.d during the year the Arlington 



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