Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents, October 1908
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Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents No. 166 October, 1908 ISSUED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE l 908 Abbreviations Appendix........................................ app. No title-page................................ n. t. p. Congress.........................................Cong. Number, numbers............. .......no.,nos. Consular.......................................... cons. Octavo..................................................8® Cover title only.............................c. t. o. Page, pages.......................................... p. Department................ Dept. Part, parts....................................pt., pts. Diagram, diagrams........................ diagr. Plate, plates........................................ pl. Document.........................................doc. Portrait, portraits.............................. por. Executive.......................................... ex. Quarto................................................. 4® Facsimile, facsimiles....................facsim. Report................................................rp. Figure, figures.................................... fig. Saint...................................................St. Folio.....................................................f° Section, sections................................sec. House..................................................H. Senate...................................................S. House concurrent resolution........H. C. R. Senate concurrent resolution........ S. C. R. House document.......................... H.doc. Senate document........................... S.doc. House executive document....H. ex. doc. Senate executive document... .S. ex. doc. House j oint resolution.................. H.J.R. Senate joint resolution...................S. J. R. House report...................................H.rp. Senate report...................................S. rp. House resolution (simple)............... H.R. Senate resolution (simple)....................S. R. Illustration, illustrations..................... il. Session............................................. sess. Inch, inches........................................ in. Sixteenmo.......................................... 16® Including........................................ inch Statutes at large............................... Stat.L. Latitude............................................. lat. Table, tables..................................... tab. Leaf, leaves........................................... 1. Thirty two-mo..................................... 32® Longitude....................................... long. Treasury........................................ Treas. Mile, miles..........................................m. Twelvemo........................................... 12® Miscellaneous................................. misc. Twentyfour-mo.................................. 24® Nautical ..........................................naut. Versus............................................ vs., v. No date. ........................................... n. d. Volume, volumes ........................v., vol. No place............................................n.p, Year...................................................yr. Common abbreviations for names of States and months are also used. H. or S. followed by a number stands for House bill or Senate bill, respectively. * Document for sale by Superintendent of Documents. f Distribution by office issuing document j Document not obtainable. Explanation Words and figures inclosed in brackets [] are given for informa- tion, but do not appear on the title-pages of the publications cata- logued. When size is not given, octavo is to be understood. Size of maps is measured from outer edge of border, excluding margin. The dates, including day, month, and year, given with Senate and House documents and reports, are the dates on which they were ordered to be printed. Usually the printing promptly follows the ordering, but various causes sometimes make delays. When Congress and session are not given with the numbers of Senate and House docu- ments and reports, 60th Congress, 1st session, is to be understood. 136 Notes of Gene ral Interest In the October list of public documents a very notable example comes from the Law Division of the Library of Congress as volume 1 of the Index analysis of Federal statutes. It is a very minute and extended index to the Revised statutes of 1873, and to the Statutes at large since published, namely, volumes 18-34. It is the first gen- eral index to the laws of the United States that has been compiled since Little and Brown’s index to volumes 1-8, Statutes at large, published more than 40 years ago. The magnitude and completeness of the new work may be partly estimated from the fact that volume 1 alone fills nearly 1,400 quarto pages, and the whole work will comprise certainly three and perhaps four volumes. Volume 2, which is to index the private, local, and temporary laws, will be at least two years longer in compilation, and no date has been fixed for the publication of that volume or the succeeding volumes. Volume 1 is, however, the only one which the average legal practi- tioner will require, as it indexes all the general and permanent laws. The last thing in the book is one that will be a great convenience to many people. It is a list of the popular names of certain statutes which are much used and usually known by the names of their authors, with references to the volumes and chapters where they may be found. This volume is published by the Library of Congress and sold by the Superintendent of Documents. A new volume of the 1905 census of manufactures came from the Census Bureau during the month. It is part 4 and is made up of Special reports on selected industries. The 1909 List of stars for navigators has been issued by the Nautical Almanac Office. From the General Land Office came a list of Unappropriated public lands. That monumental work, the Index-catalogue of library of Surgeon- General’s Office, United States Army, has reached the 13th volume of its 2d series, the 1st series having been completed in 16 volumes. There are new prints of Laws and regulations relating to Hot Springs Reservation and Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks. Annual reports of Government bureaus for the fiscal year 1907 aie beginning to drift in. By next month they should be numerous. Sailors can now be supplied with the 2d edition of the American nautical almanac for 1909. 137 138 Octo ber , 1908 In Silvical leaflet 19 the Forest Service has made a distinct con- tribution to the popular nomenclature of American trees by coining the word “ bigtree ” for the popular name of Sequoia toashingtoniana, the biggest of all big trees, the tree that made California famous. The Congressional record for the 60th Congress, 1st session, has been issued in its permanent bound form as volume 42 in 8 parts or books and an index volume. Each part is in fact a great quarto volume of about a thousand pages, and the index volume is still larger. The 8 parts sell for $2.25 each and the index for $2.50, making $20.50 for the set of 9 volumes. Volume 36, Land decisions, is in the October list and now ready for delivery. For the first time a volume in this series is bound in buckram instead of sheep. The price is $1.25. The Decisions of the Geographic Board on the proper form of place names, made during the two years, July, 1906, to July, 1908, have been published in a 38-page pamphlet. Bulletin 369 of the United States Geological Survey, Prevention of mine explosions, is the work of three European experts who were invited to this country to make an inspection of the causes which have led to a destruction of human life in American mines far greater than in the mines of any other country. The Agriculture Department, always a prolific publisher, has a long list of booklets this month. Among them we note especially Primer of conservation, a preliminary manual in the study of what may perhaps be rated the greatest of all our national questions, the conservation of natural resources. It is the first official publi- cation sketching the work of the famous conference of governors held at the White House last May. WORKS OF JOHN ADAMS The works of John Adams, in 10 volumes, edited by his grand- son, Charles Francis Adams, were published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1856. By act approved September 30, 1850, Congress appro- priated $22,500 to buy 1,000 sets. By resolution approved February 27, 1851, the distribution of between 500 and 600 sets was provided for, and it was directed that the remainder be sold. These volumes are not in the numbered series of Congressional documents. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The American Historical Association was formed at Saratoga September 9, 1884. The “ Papers ” of the Association, consisting of reports of the proceedings of the annual meetings and some of the historical monographs that had been read before the Association, were published by the Putnams, 1885-91, and have been collected in five substantial volumes, the copyright being held by the Association. These volumes, giving the proceedings and papers of the first seven annual meetings, are not public documents. By act of Congress approved January 4, 1889, the Association was incorporated, the act providing that “ said Association shall report annually to the Secre- Octo ber , 1908 139 tary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study