688 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3913. 1906. and express charges, and other necessary expenses, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. gfotal for Bureau of Soils, two hundred and twenty-one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Og*;“'°°‘¥ °‘E“°°”*°" BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. saxmos Saunms, BUREAU or Euromorooxz One Entomologist, who shall be chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars, and for additional compensation while the office is held by the present incumbent, two hun red and fifty dollars, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief clerk, one·thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks, class two, four thousand two hundred dollars; one artist, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks class one, two thousand four hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand six hundred and ten dollars. §’,f,!‘,,,°{,$‘,§,°?,,}’,F,T‘”‘ Euromorooroan isvmsrreyrronsz General expenses, Bureau of Entomology: Promotion of economic entomology; investigating the history - and habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticu - ture, and arboriculture; ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious, including an investigation into the ravages of insects adecting field crops; investigations of the insects affecting small fruit, shade trees, and truck crops, forests and forest products and stored products; investigation of insects in relation to diseases of men and domestic animals and as animal parasites; miscellaneous insect investigations, including the introduction of beneficial insects, quarantine work, and the study of fungous and other diseases of insects; for the expenses of insect laboratory, collections, and experimental garden; investigations in apiculture and in silk culture; investigations of insecticides and insecticide machinery; purchase of chemicals, insecticide a paratus, and other materials, supp ies, and instruments required in conducting such experiments and investigations; for the employ- ment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and ' elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the Rem. results of such experiments; freight and express charges and necessary traveling, expenses; rent of buil ings; for office fixtures and supplies, telegrap and telephone services; gas and electric current; pre aring, wma ay. illustrating, and publishing the results of the work of the lgureau, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture in investigating the insect affecting orange groves and known as the "white ii .’ Total for Bureau of Entomology, ninety-four thousand six hundred and ten dollars. ,,.F,·:;;é°°"‘°‘°*'°“ BUREAU or BIOLOGICAL suavsr. S**'·"°°· Sanxnms, Bmznav or Bxoroorcar Suavmrz One biologist, who shall be chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; one clerk class one, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messen er or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. }"j$$§,',§;§,§},’§;,’{“€°· Bioroexcar rxvnsrrcnroxs: General ex enses, biological investigations: For biological investigations, including the geographic distriution and migrations of animals, birds, and plants, and for the promotion of economic oruithology aiid mammalogy; for an investigation of
