344 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMI-^NT OF AGRICULTURE. 



in " riiytopatholog}^" After many unavoidable delays the " Check 

 List of the Publications of the Department of Agriculture on Plant 

 Pathology" has been issued in mimeographed form as No. 1 of the 

 new series, entitled " Bibliographical Contributions of the Library of 

 the Department." The list was prepared in the library of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. Over 500 requests for the list have been received. 

 A similai" list of reports and bulletins on the subject of plant pathol- 

 ogy published by other institutions is in preparation. The Library 

 has continued its Avork in connection with verification and editing of 

 bibliographies contained in publications of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry and in the Journal of Agricultural Research. Bibli- 

 ographies in 94 manuscripts were verified and edited during the 

 year. In the fall of 1918 the librarian of the bureau, in cooperation 

 with Miss Atwood, bibliographical assistant of the Office of Economic 

 and Systematic Botany, assisted Dr. H. L. Shantz in organizing his 

 survey of the literature of Africa for the purpose of abstracting 

 material on the natural vegetation and agricultural resources to be 

 used in making maps for " Tlic Inquiry." 



The bibliographical w^ork of the Office of Farm Management has 

 been along the same lines as mentioned in previous reports; that is, 

 the preparation of selected, lists on the cost of crop production. The 

 lists on cost of wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, cotton, sugar beets, 

 silage, and milk have been brouglit up to date, and a limited number 

 are to be mimeographed. The indexing of farm management sub- 

 ject matter is being continued. 



Lists of the publications of their respective bureaus or divisions 

 were prepared during the year by the librarians of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, Bureau of Markets, the Dairy Division, and the Office 

 of Farm Management. 



Mention has been made in previous reports of the Avork of Miss 

 Marjorie F. Warner and Miss Alice C. Atwood, bibliographical 

 assistants of the Office of Economic and Systematic Botany of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. The project under which they work is 

 called " Bibliographical Investigations in the Interest of Botanical 

 ^'cience." While not connected Avith the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 library or the main Library, the liberal spirit in which the project 

 Avas established several years ago under Mr. F. V. Coville, the chief 

 of the office, and has been carried on from year to year, tends to 

 bring it into closer relations with the Avork of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry library and the main Library. It therefore seems fitting 

 to give here some extracts from Miss Warner's report on the year's 

 Avork. The flexibility of the project is a factor of great strength as 

 it not only lends itself readily to n.Tany definite cooperative enter- 

 prises Avithin the Department but also has large privileges and re- 

 sponsibilities in relations outside the Department. 



FolloAving are some extracts from Miss Warner's report : 



Our activities of tlie past year seem to class theniseiyes cliiefly under the 

 head of cooperation. First and foremost in importance is progress on the 

 Botanical Catalogue. Practically all periodicals received by the Department, 

 together with a number from the Library of Congress, possibly 500 or 600 

 journals and reports in all, are examined for botanical articles and informa- 

 tion, and possibly 75 per cent of such material included in the catalogue. About 

 the middle of the year the circulation of periodicals formerly maintained by 

 the bureau Library was found to be no longer tenable, and a method was 

 sought to bring the contents of the journals to the notice of the scientists with 



