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title in a printed list, as many sets have numbers missing which 

 we hope it may be possible to secure by further correspondence. 



ORGANIZATION OF A CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY. 



On October 20, 1904, at the call of the honorable the Secretary 

 of the Interior, a meeting of the chiefs of the various Bureaus of 

 the Department of the Interior was held in the reading room of 

 the library and plans completed for establishing a central card 

 catalogue for all scientific publications belonging to the various 

 Bureaus of this Department. All books and periodicals at that 

 time in these different Bureaus were to be transferred to the 

 Bureau of Government Laboratories, where accurate date for pub- 

 lishing a printed catalogue and for inaugurating a comprehensive 

 card catalogue should be collected, after which all works needed 

 for constant reference in the various offices could be returned to 

 the individual Bureaus on memorandum receipt signed by the 

 chief of the Bureau and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. 



Eesulting from this arrangement 4,902 volumes have been trans- 

 ferred to the Bureau of Government Laboratories and information 

 cards made from them containing data for issuing a printed bul- 

 letin, for entering these titles in the library accession book, and for 

 establishing an author-title card index, each card referring to any 

 one of these publications showing in what Bureau or Office the 

 volume may be found if it has been taken from the library on 

 memorandum receipt. These works have all been included by 

 title in the present bulletin, except in the case of a considerable 

 amount of miscellaneous material similar to that discussed under 

 "Exchanges" and "Government publications" above, received from 

 the Bureau of Public Health, the Public Health and Marine- 

 Hospital Service, the Philippine Civil Hospital, the Bureau of 

 Public Lands, the Bureau of Agriculture, the Mining Bureau, the 

 Bureau of Forestry and the Ethnological Survey. 



In the collection and classification of the material for these 

 supplemental lists much valuable assistance has been given by Mr. 

 C. J. Arnell, stenographer of the biological laboratory. 



