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EDITORIAL. 



Classes and titles. 



Fish culture 



Technology 



Dingler's polytechnisches journal. 321 v. 



Engineering _" 



Roads and pavements 



Mineral industries 



American institute of mining engineers, New York. Transac 

 tions. 35 v. 



The Mineral industry. 17 v. 

 Chemical technology 



Jahresbericht fiber die leistungen derchemischen technologie 

 55 v. in 60. 



Manufactures 



Foods 



Bibliography i 



Bound 

 volumes. 



Unbound 

 volumes. 



366 



48 



10 



138 



250 



40 



47 



137 



2 



1 



35 



11 



3 



187 



Parts. 



53 

 177 



24 



Besides the sections noted above, there is still a large amount of 

 unclassified material in geology, mining and mineral industries, technol- 

 ogy, geography and anthropology, travel, history, photography, fish and 

 fisheries, political and social science and bibliography. If we add to the 

 above, reprints, dissertations and monographs, Government publications 

 not bearing directly upon the work of the Bureau, incomplete series of 

 publications not considered of sufficient value to complete and bind, and 

 duplicate material, it will easily be seen ' that we have probably already 

 gone beyond the outside figures suggested in planning for the future 

 growth of the library in its present quarters. 



During the first five years almost the whole time of the small library 

 staff was given to securing publications, and completing and building sets 

 of periodicals, with only such temporary records as would enable works 

 to be found on the shelves. Prom the beginning, the books were ar- 

 ranged roughly according to one of the standard classification schemes 

 and arbitrary symbols assigned for locating them. The transition to 

 the present arrangement on the shelves was, therefore, not sudden, so 

 far as the main classes were concerned, but in a library growing as, 

 rapidly as this one from 1903 to 1908, it frequently happened that the 

 actual location of a given book might change a great many times during 

 a year, although the relative position remained the same. If we add to 

 this fact the one that books bore no key to their relative locations, the 

 problem of keeping them on their proper shelves can easily be seen. 

 The accession book was first brought up to date, and the cost of the 

 library was segregated from that of apparatus and supplies of the Bureau. 

 Because of clerical errors in volume numbers, dates, etc., and of the fact 

 that well-meaning people along the way had frequently attempted to 

 assist us by translating several titles of foreign journals by the same 



