Railway and tramway ambulance corps in New South Wales..... 540 The Orient and San Francisco..... 539 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: Austrian floating exhibition........................ 572 Electric lights on railway trains in Germany and Austria..... 485 571 Electric lights on railway trains in Germany and Austria... 485 Movement of trade in the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in 1902.. 586 GERMANY-Continued. New customs tariff of......... New paper and wall coating.. Recovery of gold in combination with tellurium and selenium... South American trade with...... GREAT BRITAIN: Bricklaying in winter in England... Consular service of.......... Engine cars on English railways... English vs. American coal....... Extension of British colonial preferential tariff.. Mr. Moseley's industrial inquiry........... Railway accidents in United Kingdom........ Stone from sand.......... The cotton crisis in Lancashire.... HAITI: Increased export duties on wood in... New revenue-stamp law in...................... HONDURAS: New revenue stamps in... Page. 558 565 516 513 441 510 547 551 548 563 458 451 573 587 566 578 575 575 554 552 INDIA: Tea cultivation and curing in.. Tea industry of.......... ITALY: Industrial education in....... 472 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. VIII |