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The division does not make assays of ores nor analyses of minerals, 

 except when related to general agricultural interests; nor analyses of 

 water. The successive chiefs have been 0. M. Wetherill, Henry Erni, 

 Thomas Antisell, 11. T. Brown, William McMurtrie, and Peter Collier. 

 The present chief is H. W. Wiley, who was apjiointed April 9, 1883. 



DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Division of Entomology, organized in 1803, conducts investiga- 

 tions concerning injurious and beneficial insects ; disseminaties informa- 

 tion regarding the results of these investigations and the best remedies 

 to be used against injurious insects, by means of correspondence, cir- 

 culars, bulletins and reports; prepares specimens for illustrative and 

 museum purposes; and in general acts as a bureau of information on 

 all matters relating to economic entomology. The chiefs have been 

 Townend Glover, 0. Y. Riley, J. H. Comstock, and G. Y. Kiley. L. O. 

 Howard is the present chief, appointed June 1, 1894. 



DIVISION OF STATISTICS. 



The Division of Statistics, established in 18G3, collects information 

 as to the condition, prospects, and harvests of the principal crops, and 

 of the numbers and status of farm animals through a corps of county 

 correspondents, and with the aid of a supplementary organization under 

 the direction of State agents. It obtains similar information from Euro- 

 pean countries monthly through the deputy consul-general at London, 

 assisted by consular, agricultural, and commercial authorities. It 

 records and tabulates and coordinates statistics of agricultural pro- 

 duction, distribution, and consumption, the authorized data of govern- 

 ments, institutes, societies, boards of trade, and individual experts; 

 and writes, edits, and i^ublishes a monthly bulletin for the use of editors 

 and writers, and for the information of producers and consumers, and 

 for their protection against combination and extortion in the handling 

 of the products of agriculture. Former chiefs have been Lewis Bollman, 

 J. E. Dodge, Charles Worthington, J. E. Dodge (reappointed), and 

 Henry A. Eobinson; John Hyde, the present chief, was appointed 

 August 1, 1897. 



DIVISION OF BOTANY. 



.The Division of Botany was established in March, 1869. It main- 

 tained the United States National Herbarium until July 1, 189G, when 

 that work was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution. The chief 

 of the division, however, continues to have charge and the specimens 

 are used by his assistants. The division now i^ublishes information of 

 the treatment of weeds, experiments with poisonous and medicinal 

 plants, tests seeds with a view to their increased purity and commercial 

 value, and investigates other questions of economic botany. The chiefs 

 have been C. C. Parry, and George Yasey. The present chief is Fred- 

 erick Y. Coville, appointed March 9, 1893. 



