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 730 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. HI. C11. 169. 1895. mvumer Botany., BOTANIGAL INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS, Division OF BOTANY: Investigations relating to medicinal and other economic plants, including the employment of botanists in the field for exp1ora—‘ tion and the collection of plants in little-known districts; traveling expenses and express charges; the purchase of specimens, paper, and all other necessary supplies, materials, and apparatus for the herbarium, and labor necessary in preparing the same; subscriptions to, and purchase of, botanical publications for use in the division; and the preparation, illustration, and publication of reports, twenty-five thousand dollars. mmm of new INVESTIGATING THE Hrsronx AND Hnnrrs or Ixismcrs, DIVISION "‘°‘°¤'· or Eivromonoex: Promotion of economic entomology; investigating ‘ the history and habits of insects injurious and beneicial to agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture, by inspection and experiments in nurseries, orchards, and· vineyards when necessary; experiments in destroying those found to be injurious; chemicals, insecticide apparatus, and other materials, supplies, and instruments required in conducting such experiments and investigations; ireight and express charges, and necessary traveling expenses; compensation of additional temporary assi tants, investigators, and agents, and preparing, illustrating, and publishing the results of the work of the division, twenty thousand dollars. thllgrkiggldgg Om}; Ixvnsriaxrrons nv Oimrruonoax AND Mnnuxnoev, Division ogy. gy OF ORNITHOLOGY Ann MAm1u1.oGx: For biological investigations, including the geographic distribution and migrations of animals, birds, and plants, and for the promotion of economic ornithology and mammalogy, an investigation of the food habits of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for printing and publishing reports thereon, and for illustrations, fieldwork, and traveling, and other expenses in the practical work of the division, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. 1>ivi¤i<>¤ •f 1’•¤¤·>¤- Pomonoarckn Imronmnrroiv, Division or Poivronoorz Traveling °”` and other necessary expenses in investigating, collecting, and disseminating pomological information, and the collection and distribution of seeds, shrubs, trees, and specimens, six thousand dollars. 1>M¤¤>¤ of MMM Mrcnoscorrc Invnsrrcxrious, Division or Mrcnosoorr: Investi- °°"’ gation of food adulterations and investigations and experiments relating to textile iibers and fabrics; microscopical apparatus, chemicals, photographic illustrations, and drawings, and other supplies; traveling expenses, the purchase of food samples'and condiments in the investigations of the adulteration of food, and the purchase of textile fibers, and ascertaining their- relative strength and forms, two thousand o lars. u:>;;i·t;:g°·éV·s¤~ Vnanrxnnn Pnmorooioan lnvnsrranrrons AND Exrnnmnnrs, ' Division or Vnannnnn. Pnrsionoex Am: Pnrnonoexz Investigating the nature of diseases injurious to fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, vegetables, and other useful plants; experiments in the treatment of the same; chemicals and apparatus 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 of Agriculture may be applied to the investigation of peach yellows, California grape disease, root rot and blight of cotton, pear blight, and the diseases of citrus fruits, and remedies therefor. ,_1>M•r»¤ or chem- LABORATOBY,DIVISION(|F Omnmisrizx: Chemical apparatus, chem- W` icals, laboratory nxtures and supplies, repairs to engine and apparatus, gas and electric current, purchase of samples and necessary expenses in conducting special investigations, including necessary traveling expenses, labor, and expert work in such investigations, four thousand dollars; for rent of laboratory building, nine hundred dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred dollars;