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EXPENDITURES. 
Expenses of the executive committee $1, 123. 85 
Expenses of the secretary and treasurer (postage, printing, telegrams, 
etc. ) 19. 49 
Services of the joinl agent of the passenger associations al Des .Moines it. <><> 
Total 1. 160. 34 
Balance on hand October 31, 1904 633. 92 
E. B. Voobhees, Secretary-Treasurer. 
on motion, the report was referred to an auditing committee consisting of 
J, L. Hills, of Vermont, and E. A. Bryan, of Washington, which subsequently 
reported, as follows : 
5Tour committee on auditing the accounts of the treasurer respect fully reports 
that it has surveyed the hooks of that office, finds them we'd kept, finds receipts, 
expenditures, and balance as stated in his report, and finds proper vouchers 
supporting all expenditures. 
Joseph L. IIiejs. 
E. A. Buy an. 
Committee. 
On motion, the report was adopted. 
Report oe Bibliographer. 
The report of the bibliographer. A. C. True, was presented, as follows: 
During the past year the Department of Agriculture has continued the publi- 
cation of the Judex catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology and has also 
issued special bibliographies of agricultural text-books, school gardens, insects. 
etc. The usual annual reports concerning the literature and general progress in 
chemistry, botany, zoology, plant diseases, veterinary medicine, and other gen- 
eral subjects have appeared. Among the list of bibliographies noted below 
there are many important ones which deal pretty thoroughly with special fields 
on which good bibliographies did not hitherto exist. Among these subjects we 
may mention the following: Molds pathogenic for animals : The function of 
salt in the animal organism; Sericulture; Effect of gases upon cultivated 
plants; Economic value of birds; Insect enemies of books; Hemorrhagic septi- 
cemia; Plant breeding; Blood immunity and blood relationship as determined 
by precipitin tests for blood; Parthenogenesis : The constituents of milk; 
Texas fever; The feeding value of sugar-beet pulp and molasses; India rubber 
and gutta-percha; Roup of fowls; Avian tuberculosis; and Drinking water. 
On account of the unusual interest aroused in the subject of tuberculosis ;i^ a 
result of Koch's theories, a great number of bibliographies relating to the differ- 
ent phases of this disease have been prepared and published in connection with 
articles containing the results of the investigations. All of the bibliographies 
which have just been referred to are noted more fully in the list of 08 titles 
which follows : 
Andreasch, R., and Spiro. K. Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der Tier- 
Chemie (Annual report on the progress in animal chemistry). Jahresbericht 
fiber die Fortschritte der rier-Chemie. 32 (1902), pp. 1141. An extended 
review of the literature of animal chemistry for the year 1902. 
Bailey, L. II. Development of the text-book of agriculture in North America. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Office of Experiment Stations Report 
1903, pp. 080-712. A chronological bibliography of North American text- 
books of agriculture is appended to a discussion of this subject. 
Banks, X. A revision of the Nearctic Chrysopidse. Transactions of the Ameri- 
can Entomological Society, 29 (1903), No. 2, pp. 137-162. A list of IS refer- 
ences to the literature of the subject is appended to the article. 
