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THE yearly increasing output of scientific workers, like the fleas that have “lesser fleas to bite them,” has called into being another class of workers who have to abstract the papers into Jahresberichte, Centralblatter, records, and the like, the next step in the ad infinitum process being represented by the indexes which appear every decade or so to the abstracts themselves. By no other means would the investigator be able to “read up the literature” before attacking a new problem, and though there may be two opinions as to the wisdom of so doing, there can be none as to the desirability of having the power if need be. The present volume consists of a subject index to the first twelve volumes of the Experiment Station Record, the well known series of abstracts of both American and European papers in agricultural science which is issued monthly by the United States Department of Agriculture, and distributed so liberally to all foreign workers. The Experiment Station Record is, indeed, something more than a journal of abstracts; it contains from time to time special articles resuming the current state of knowledge about particular subjects, and written by some acknowledged expert; for example, in this index we find mentioned special articles by K¨hn, Stohmann, Kellner, Zuntz, and Hagemann on nutrition investigations alone.
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A Bibliography of Agricultural Science . Nature 71, 188 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071188a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/071188a0