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 FIFTYSEOOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 147. 1892. 77 other economic and medicinal plants, including cost of reports and illustrations thereof, and for traveling and other necessary expenses connected therewith and for employing local botanists in the field for exploration and collection of plants in little-known districts, twenty-seven thousand ive hundred dollars. INVESTIGATING THE HISTORY AND HABITS OF INSECTS, DIVISION Rivisiouofentcmol- OF ENTOMGLOGY: Promotion of economic entomology, investigating °"’ ` the history and habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, arboriculture, and horticulture; experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them; publishing reports thereon, and for illustrations, chemicals, and other expenses in the practical work of the division of entomology, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars: Pro- Prvviwoided, That two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for an investigation into the natural history of and remedies for the cotton-boll worm; for the compen- com-m.1mu worm. sation of additional temporary agents of the division of entomology; for traveling expenses, chemicals, insecticide apparatus, and other necessary expenses in this investigation. INVESTIGATION IN ORNITHOLOGY AND MAMMALOGY, DIVISION OF Division ofomiumi- OBNITHOLOGY AND MAMMALOGY: For investigating the geographic °g°`“““ “‘*‘““““‘°€·'*'· distribution of animals and plants, and for the promotion of economic oruithology and mammalogy and investigation of the food habit of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for publishing reports thereon, and for illustrations, field work, traveling, and other expenses in the practical work of the division, fifteen thousand dollars. POMOLOGIGAL Inronmriou, DIvIsIoN or POMOLOGY: Traveling Division of ptmon. and other necessary expenses in investigating, collecting and dissemi- °g"‘ nating pomological information, and the collection and distribution of trees, seeds, shrubs, and specimens, five thousand dollars. INVESTIGATION or FOOD ADULTERATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS Division of micro- AND EXPERDIENTS RELATING TO TEXTILE FABRICS, DIV1sION OF '°°"· MIGROSCOPY: Microscopical apparatus, chemicals, photographic illustrations and drawings, and other supplies; traveling expenses; the purchase of food samples and condiments in the investigation of the adulteration of food; the purchase of textile fabrics, and ascertaining their relative strength and forms, two thousand dollars. VEGETABLE PATHOLOG-IGAL INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS, Division of vegeta- DIVISION or YVEGETABLE PATHOLOGY: Investigating the nature of *"° P*“**°*°€¥· diseases injurious to fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, and other useful _ plants; experiments in the treatment of the same; chemicals and upparams required in the field and laboratory; necessary traveling expenses; the preparation of drawings and illustrations; and for other expenses connected with the practical work of the investigation twenty thousand dollars; of which so much thereof as may be directed by the Secretary may be applied to the investigation of peach yellows, California grape disease, root rot and blight of cotton, pear blight, the disease of the orange, and remedies therefor. LABORATORY, Division or Cnmnsrnrz Chemical apparatus, chemi- Division of ummmcals, laboratory fixtures and supplies, purchase of samples and necessary "" expenses in conducting special investigations, including necessary travelling expenses, labor and expert work in such investigations. six thousand dollars; for rent of laboratory building, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to extend and continue the Adulterationoffood, investigation of the adulteration of food, drugs, and liquors, including ‘l’“g”· “”° hq“°"‘ the purchase of samples, transportation, travelling expenses. stationery. return postage, printing and illustrations, analyzing, investigating, and examining samples purchased in the open markets, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars; and for these purposes the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to employ such assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary: Provided, That the Secretary is mm.