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The report was referred to an auditing committee consisting of J. L Snyder, 
L. (l. Carpenter, and ('. \Y. Dabney, who reported as follows: 
The committee appointed to audit the accounts of Edward B. Voorhees, treasurer 
Of this association, begs leave to reporl that the hook, checks, ami vouchers have 
been carefully compared and seem to be correct. 
Respectfully submitted. J. L Snyder 
L. ( i. ( Sabpbmtbr. 
C. W. Dabney. 
The report was accepted. 
Repobt of Bibliographer. 
A. C. Tine presented the report of the bibliographer, as follows: 
The publications of the Department of Agriculture issued during the year have 
contained a number of bibliographies which are included in the list forming a part of 
this report. Special mention, however, may he made of the list of references to 
publications relating to irrigation and land drainage, published as Library Bulletin 
No. 41, and to the publication of four additional parts of the index-catalogue of med- 
ical and veterinary zoology. 
Annual reports of progress in chemistry, zoology, veterinary medicine, plant dis- 
eases, and other subjects have appeared as usual. Very useful indexes to the last 
ten volumes of each of the following have been issued recently: Zoologischer Jahres- 
hericht, Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der Thier-Chemie, and Zeitschrift fur 
analytische Chemie. The following are among the subjects of the more important 
special bibliographies which have appeared during the year: Cotton, rusts of cereals, 
Mendel's law, grafting, nitrogen fixation, soil bacteria, pleasure gardens, eucalypts, 
silk culture, Coccidae, Hessian fly, milk bacteria, and theories of immunity. 
The first number of a bibliography of agriculture published in Italy, under the title 
Bibliographia Agronomica Universalis, has just appeared. This number contains 
references to 445 publications issued since January 1, 1903. These publications are 
for the most part in Italian, the intention being to include the foreign publications in 
subsequent numbers. The references are arranged alphabetically by authors under 
11 headings. The publication promises to be a useful work of reference. 
In the report last year special attention was called to the International Catalogue 
of Scientific Literature. At that time parts of the indexes for chemistry and botany 
for 1901 had been published. Since then our attention has been called to part 2 of 
the volume for chemistry and to the volumes for meteorology, physiology, bacteri- 
ology, and general biology. In some of these volumes there is a very evident omis- 
sion of references to works of American authors. For instance, in the volume for 
bacteriology no reference could be found to any of the many contributions to the 
literature of bacteriology made by the Department of Agriculture and the experi- 
ment stations during the year. Less than a dozen of the many feeding experiments 
reported in 1901 are referred to in the volume for physiology. In justice to the 
catalogue it should be noted that, in each of the volumes referred to, it is stated that 
those portions of the literature for 1901 not indexed will be included in the corre- 
sponding volumes of the second annual issue. Notwithstanding this clause, it is to be 
regretted that the index is so incomplete. 
All of the bibliographies to which reference has been made are noted more fully in 
the list of 110 titles which follows: 
A.iello, G., and Parascandolo, C. Delia psittaccosi (Psittacosis). Archives de 
Parasitologic, 5 (1902), No. 2, pp. 294-395. The literature of the subject is dis- 
cussed in connection with an extensive bibliography. 
Alwood, W. B. A study of cider making in France, Germany, and England, with 
comments and comparisons on American work. U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, Bureau of Chemistry Bulletin 71, pp. 114. A short bibliography of French, 
German, and English works on cider making is appended. 
American Museum of Natural History. List of papers published in the bulletin 
and memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, volumes 1-1 1>, 
1881-1902. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1902, pp. 32. 
The main part of the list, containing about 278 references, is classified as follows: 
(1) Geology; (2) mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes; (3) fossil vertebrates; 
(4) insects; (5) anthropology. 
Anderson, L. Some of the influences affecting milk production. Thesis, Cornell 
University, 1901, pp. 97. An extended bibliography of the literature of experi- 
mentation touching upon the production of milk is appended. 
