February 10, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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tions for collecting scale insects was pub- 

 lished as Part L. of Bulletin 39, and a cir- 

 cular was issued relating to the collection 

 and preservation of the bones and teeth of 

 the Mastodon and Mammoth. 



Bureau of Ethnology reports. — The seven- 

 teenth report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 for the year ending June 30, 1896, was 

 sent to the Public Printer on July C, 1897, 

 and proof reading was completed before 

 June 30, 1898, but actual presswork has 

 not begun. The eighteenth report is also 

 in the printers' hands, but no progress has 

 been made beyond the revision of some first 

 proofs. 



Adrophysical Observatory publications. — 

 There has been prepared and is now ready 

 for publication a full report on the results 

 of the researches carried on in the Astro- 

 physical Observatory since its establish- 

 ment and this work will probably be printed 

 in quarto form during the next fiscal year, 

 the cost of the publication being charged to 

 the appropriation for the Observatory under 

 authority of Congress. 



The number of accessions to the library 

 has been greater than at any time hereto- 

 fore, the total entries of volumes, parts of 

 volumes, pamphlets and charts reaching 

 40,715, an increase of nearly 5,000 over the 

 previous year. The greater part of this 

 has been sent to the Library of Congress to 

 be placed with the Smithsonian deposit. 



The Museum library shows a greatly in- 

 creased use over last year. The limited 

 quarters assigned for library purposes in 

 the Museum are so greatly crowded that it 

 has become necessary to provide additional 

 book room, for which purpose a gallery 

 directly adjoining the library has been 

 erected and fitted with shelves, where space 

 is provided for 18,000 volumes. This is 

 rendered necessary by the purchase for 

 the Museum, by Congressional appro- 



priation, of the scientific library of the 

 late Dr. G. Brown Goode. The In- 

 stitution is especially fortunate in being 

 able to obtain this library and the Museum 

 now has the benefit of possessing the collec- 

 tions of books both of Professor Baird and 

 Dr. Goode. 



TSE AGEICULTURAL EXPERIMENT 

 STATIONS.'^ 



This is the fourth annual report on the 

 work and expenditures of the agricultural 

 experiment stations in the United States, 

 made by the Director of the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations, under instructions from 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. As hereto- 

 fore, the report is based on three sources of 

 information, viz, the annual financial state- 

 ments of the stations, rendered on the 

 schedules prescribed by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, in accordance with the Act of 

 Congress ; the printed reports and bulletins 

 of the stations, and the reports of personal 

 examinations of the work and expenditures 

 of the stations made during the past year 

 by the Director, Assistant Director and 

 one other expert officer of the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations. The stations in all the 

 States and Territories were visited since 

 the previous report was transmitted to 

 Congress. 



During the past year the stations have, 

 as a rule, steadily pursued their investiga- 

 tions. There have been a smaller number 

 of changes in the workers ; the general man- 

 agement has been less subject to radical 

 and unwise changes ; much useful work has 

 been accomplished, and the facilities for in- 

 vestigations have been increased. 



RELATIONS OF COLLEGES AND STATIONS. 



There has been much activity during the 

 past year in the developing and strength- 

 ening of courses of instruction in agricul- 



* From Report to Congress on Work and Expendi- 

 tures of Agricultural Experiment Stations for 1898. 



