LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. On July 1, 1903, the Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the Department of State, which has had charge of the publication and distribution of the CONSULAR REPORTS, was transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor, in pursuance of provisions in the act of Congress approved February 14, 1903, creating that Department, and consolidated with the Bureau of Statistics, transferred from the Treasury to the new Department. Reports from consular officers on commercial and industrial subjects will hereafter be transmitted through the Department of State to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the latter will publish and distribute them. Requests for consular reports should hereafter be made to the Department of Commerce and Labor. The publications formerly issued by the Bureau of Foreign Commerce will be issued in similar form by the Department of Commerce and Labor. They are as follows: I.-COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, being the annual reports of consular officers on the commerce, industries, navigation, etc., of their districts. II. REVIEW OF WORLD'S COMMERCE, being a summary of the annual reports contained in Commercial Relations. III.—CONSULAR Reports, issued monthly, and containing miscellaneous reports from diplomatic and consular officers. IV. DAILY CONSULAR REPORTS, issued daily, except Sundays and legal holidays, for the convenience of the newspaper press, commercial and manufacturing organizations, etc. V.-EXPORTS Declared for the United StatES, issued annually, containing the declared values of exports from the various consular districts to the United States. VI. SPECIAL Consular Reports, containing series of reports from consular officers on particular subjects, made in pursuance to instructions from the Department. Following are the special publications issued prior to 1890: Labor in Europe, 1878, one volume; Labor in Foreign Countries, 1884, three volumes; Commerce of the World and the Share of the United States Therein, 1879; Commerce of the World and the Share of the United States Therein, 1880-81; Declared Exports for the United States, First and Second Quarters, 1883; Declared Exports for the United States, Third and Fourth Quarters, 1883; Cholera in Europe in 1884, 1885; Trade Guilds of Europe, 1885; The Licorice Plant, 1885; Forestry in Europe, 1887; Emigration and Immigration, 1885-86 (a portion of this work was published as CONSULAR REPORTS No. 76, for the month of April, 1887); Rice Pounding in Europe, 1887; Sugar of Milk, 1887; Wool Scouring in Belgium, 1887; Cattle and Dairy Farming in Foreign Countries, 1888 (issued first in one volume, afterwards in two volumes); Technical Education in Europe, 1888; Tariffs of Central America and the British West Indies, 1890. |