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available literature on this subject was made, at our request, by Prof. 

 Herman Babson, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. In this 

 way a more complete survey of the development of our institutions 

 for agricultural education was made than had previously been possi- 

 ble. In connection with the exhibit of educational institutions in the 

 United States made at the Paris Exposition, a series of monographs 

 on different branches of our educational system was prepared under 

 the editorship of Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity. Agricultural education was welL represented by a monograph 

 by Dr. C. W. Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee and 

 formerlj^ Assistant Secretary of this Department. 



ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERI- 

 MENT STATIONS. 



The thirteenth annual convention of this association was held at 

 San Francisco, Cal., July 5-7, 1899. The Director of this Office was a 

 delegate and was also reelected bibliographer of the association. The 

 Oflfiee was further represented by the assistant director. Dr. E. W. 

 Allen, and by the expert in charge of irrigation investigations. Prof. 

 Elwood Mead. The stenographic report of the proceedings was pre- 

 pared under the supervision of the Director, and has since been edited 

 by him and Mr. W. H. Beal, of this Office, and the chairman of the 

 executive committee of the association, and issued as Bulletin No. 76. 



The committee on methods of teaching agriculture presented as its 

 fourth report of progress a syllabus for a college course in zootechny 

 (animal production). The work of this committee was discussed by 

 the convention and the committee was continued. 



Progress reports were also made by the committees on indexing 

 agricultural literature, the collective experiment station exhibit at 

 the Paris Exposition, and graduate study at Washington, D. C. The 

 Director of this Office has performed a considerable amount of work 

 during the past year as a member of the four committees above 

 mentioned. 



The annual address of the president of the association, Prof. H. P. 

 Armsby, director of the Pennsylvania experiment station, presented 

 the work of the experiment station considered as a department of 

 higher or university education in agriculture. There were also papers 

 on "Agricultural education — practical and scientific," by W. M. Lig- 

 gett, of Minnesota; "The principles underlying the formation of an 

 agricultural course in the South," by C. E. Coates, jr., of Louisiana, 

 and "The principles underlying the formation of an agricultural 

 course in the East," by I. P. Roberts, of New York. 



The irrigation investigations of this Office were explained to the 

 association by the Director and Professor Mead, and subjects relating 

 to irrigation were much discussed in the convention through papers 

 and informal remarks. 



The cooperation of the stations with this Department was discussed 

 and a committee was appointed to further consider this matter and 

 report to the next convention. 



RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCA- 

 TION AND RESEARCH. 



During the past year the Office lias received a considerable number 

 of documents giving information regarding the organization, equip- 

 ment, and work of foreign institutions for agricultural investigation 

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