U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 29, Chap. 140, pp. 99-108. "An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven."

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U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 29, Chap. 140, pp. 99-108. "An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven."

U.S. Congress. 54th. 1st Session.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : District of Columbia : Washington Government Printing Office 1896 04 25

SUMMARY
This lengthy appropriations bill contains a paragraph entitled "Division of Biological Survey" (p. 100), which creates the Division by designating titles and salaries for a staff of seven.

NOTES
The creation of the Division, which was renamed the Bureau of Biological Survey in 1905, signals the Federal government's growing concern with the scientific study, management, and protection of the nation's biological resources. The Division replaced the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, established in 1886 (see 24 Stat. 100).

Published 1897.

SUBJECTS
Law--United States
Wildlife conservation

MEDIUM
0010

CALL NUMBER
KF 50 .U5

PART OF
United States Statutes at Large

DIGITAL ID
amrvl vl008

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