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SOME RECENT GOVERNMENT 

 REPORTS 



The Avocado. G. N. Collins, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, Bull. 77. 



The Variability of Wheat Varieties in Resist- 

 ance to Toxic Salts. L- L. Harter, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, Bull. 79 



Agricultural Explorations in Algeria. 

 Thomas H. Means, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Bull. 80. 



Evolution of Cellular Structures. O. F, 

 Cook and Walter T. Swingle, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Bull. 81. 



Grass Lands of the South Alaska Coast. 

 C. V. Piper, Bureau of Plant Industry, Bull. 82. 



The Vitality of Buried Seeds. J. W. T. 

 Duvel, Bureau of Plant Industry, Bull. 83. 



The Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil. W. D. 

 Hunter and W. E. Hinds, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Bull. 51. 



Experiments in the Culture of Suger Cane 

 and its Manufacture into Table Syrup. H. W. 

 Wiley, Bureau of Chemistry, Bull. 93. 



Tobacco Investigations in Ohio. George T. 

 McNess and George B. Massey, Bureau of 

 Soils, Bull. 29. 



The Commercial Cotton Crop. James L. 

 Watkins, Bureau of Statistics, Bull. 34. 



Statistics of the Fisheries of the New Eng- 

 land States. A. B. Alexander, Bureau of 

 Fisheries, Bull. 575. 



A Revision of the Cave Fishes of North 

 America. Ulysses 0. Cox, Bureau of Fisheries, 

 Bull. 579. 



The Gas Disease in Fishes. M. C. Marsh 

 and F. P. Gorham, Bureau of Fisheries, Bull. 

 573. 



Critical Notes on Mylocheilus Lateralis and 

 Leuciscus Caurinus. John Otterbien Snyder, 

 Bureau of Fisheries, Bull. 574. 



Notes on the Fishes of the Streams Flowing 

 into San Francisco Bay, Cal. 



The Life History of the Blue Crab. W. P. 

 Hay, M. S , Bureau of Fisheries, Bull. 580. 



Geology of the Tonopah Mining District, 

 Nevada. J. E. Spurr. Geological Survey, 

 Prof. Paper 42. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



THE completed program of the pop- 

 ular and technical meetings of the 

 National Geographic Society for 1905- 

 1906. 



THE POPULAR COURSE 



The addresses in this Course will be 

 delivered in the National Rifles Armory, 

 920 G street, at 8 p. m. on Friday even- 

 ings of the following dates : 



November 10— "A Review of the 

 Russo-Japanese War — from the Sinking 

 of the Varia? to the Signing of the 

 Treaty of Portsmouth. " By Mr Robert 

 I,. Dunn, special correspondent of Col- 

 lier's Weekly in the Far East. 



The address is a pictorial summary of 

 the war, being illustrated by nearly 200 

 views. 



November 24—' ' The Panama Canal. ' ' 

 By Hon. James R. Mann, Member of 

 Congress from Illinois. 



December 8—" What Shall be Done 

 with the Yosemite Valley." By Mr 

 William E. Curtis. Illustrated. 



The Yosemite Valley has been receded 

 to the federal government by act of the 



California legislature, but has not yet 

 been formally accepted by Congress. 



December 9 (Saturday)—' 'A Military 

 Observer in Manchuria." By Major 

 Joseph Kuhn, U. S. A. Illustrated. 



December 22 — "An Attempt at an 

 Interpretation of Japanse Character." 

 By Hon. Eki Hioki, First Secretary of 

 the Japanese Legation. 



January 5 — "Russia and the Russian 

 People." Mr Melville E. Stone, Gen- 

 eral Manager of the Associated Press, 

 has accepted the t invitation of the So- 

 ciety to deliver the address on this sub- 

 ject, provided the demands of the public 

 service do not interfere. 



January 9 (Tuesday)— " The Ziegler 

 Polar Expedition of 1 903-1 905." By 

 Messrs W. S. Champ, Anthony Fiala, 

 and W. J. Peters. 



A novel feature of this meeting will 

 be the exhibition of moving pictures of 

 Arctic scenes. 



January 19 — " Railway Rates. ' ' By 

 Hon. Martin A. Knapp, President of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



