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THE third annual report (1931-1932) of the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux (London: H.M. Stationery Office. 1s. net) shows that important developments have taken place during the year under review. The outstanding feature of the report is that it marks for the first time the regular issue of journals from practically all the eight bureaux. These journals embody information abstracted from scientific periodicals in almost every language and from almost every country. Horticultural Abstracts is issued by the Bureau of Fruit Production at East Malling, the Veterinary Bulletin monthly from Weybridge, List of Publications Relating to Soils and Fertilisers monthly from Rothamsted, Plant Breeding Abstracts quarterly from Cambridge, Herbage Abstracts quarterly from Aberystwyth, Bulletin on Animal Genetics quarterly from Edinburgh. Abstracts on agricultural parasitology, which are prepared by the Bureau at St. Albans, appear in the Quarterly Journal of Helminthology, whilst the journal from Aberdeen? Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews?reveals co-operation between the Medical Research Council, the trustees of the Reid Library and the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux. The analysis of the year's expenditure bears testimony to the large part played by these journals in the work of the Bureaux. More than ninety per cent of the gross expenditure has been incurred in the examination, abstraction and distribution of scientific information, in the purchase of necessary scientific books and periodicals and in the publication of a number of special bibliographies on subjects of particular interest.
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Agricultural Publications. Nature 132, 346 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132346d0
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