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the branch stations established in several 

 States, the total number of stations in the 

 United States is 56. Of these, 52 received 

 the appropriation provided for in the act of 

 Congress above mentioned. 



The total income of the stations during 

 1899 was $1,143,334.93, of which $720,000 

 was received from the National Govern- 

 ment, the remainder, $428,334.93, coming 

 from the following sources : State govern- 

 ments, $240,300.20 ; individuals and com- 

 munities, $12,100 ; fees for analj'ses of 

 fertilizers, $75,294.42; sales of farm pi-od- 

 ucts, $69,312.60; miscellaneous, $26,327.71. 

 In addition to this the Office of Experiment 

 Stations had an appropriation of $40,000 

 for the past fiscal year, including $10,000 

 for the Alaskan investigation. The value 

 of additions to equipment of the stations 

 in 1899 is estimated as follows : Buildings, 

 $27,218.64; libraries, $10,796.15; appa- 

 ratus, $16,917.07 ; farm implements, $10,- 

 784.88; livestock, $16,265.95 ; miscellane- 

 ous, $22,521.93 ; total, $104,504.62. 



The stations employ 678 persons in the 

 work of administration and inquirJ^ The 

 number of officers engaged in the different 

 lines of work is as follows: Directors, 71 ; 

 chemists, 148 ; agriculturists, 68 ; experts 

 animal husbandrj', 9 ; horticulturists, 77 ; 

 farm foi'emen, 21 : dairymen, 23 ; botanists, 

 52 ; entomologists, 48 ; veterinarians, 36 ; 

 meteorologists, 17 ; biologists, 7 ; physicists, 

 7 ; geologists, 5 ; m3'cologists and bacteriol- 

 ogists, 20 ; irrigation engineers, 5 ; in charge 

 of substations, 16 ; secretaries and treasur- 

 ers, 24 ; librarians, 9 ; and clerks, 43. There 

 are also 48 persons classified under the head 

 of ' miscellaneous,' including superintend- 

 ents of gardens, grounds, and buildings, 

 apiarists, herdsmen, etc. Three hundred 

 and eight station officers do more or less 

 teaching in the colleges with which the sta- 

 tions are connected. 



During 1899 the stations published 445 

 annual reports and bulletins. Besides reg- 



ular reports and bulletins, a number of sta- 

 tions issued press bulletins, which were 

 wideljr reproduced in the agricultural and 

 county papers. The mailing lists of the 

 stations now aggregate 500,000 names. 

 Correspondence with farmers steadily in- 

 creases and calls upon station officers for 

 public addresses at institutes and other 

 meetings of fai'mers are more numerous 

 each year. The station officers continue to 

 contribute many articles on special topics 

 to agricultural and scientific journals. A 

 number of books on agricultural subjects, 

 written by station officers, have been pub- 

 lished during the past j^ear. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 The Diulurnal Theory of the Earth. Published 



by Myea Andrews and Ernest G. Stevens. 



New York. 1899. 



This work belongs to a class usually not 

 worth reviewing, but concerning which it is 

 perhaps unwise to be absolutely silent. In this 

 instance the earnest, well-meaning seriousness 

 of the author, the abounding faith of the pub- 

 lishers, growing probably out of close family re- 

 lationship, together with the absence of abso- 

 lute impossibility or absurdity in the general 

 doctrine advocated, fully justify a brief notice 

 of the book. It is a well-printed octave volume 

 of about 550 pages, and includes a portrait and 

 a biogi'aphical sketch of the author. 



Mr. William Andrews, the discoverer of the 

 ' diuturnal motion of the earth,' was born in Phil- 

 adelphia in 1798, and died at Cumberland, Md., 

 where he had lived for half a century, on August 

 G, 1887. The preface to his book is dated 1876 

 —and it was issued late in the year 1899. His 

 business was that of a stationer and book binder, 

 but his chief delight was in making geological 

 and natural history collections, accumulating 

 a ' museum' containing many thousand speci- 

 mens. In this work he appears to have been 

 successful and a portion of his ' museum' was 

 purchased by the State of New York. The 

 preparation of this work occupied much of his 

 time during the later years of his life, but he 

 also left, manuscript essays on psychology and 



