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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



son, S. M. McHenry, .Matthew Rodgers, Homy W. Northup, W. H. 

 Brosius, Sam'l McCreary, H. C. Snavely, P. S. Fenstermaker, J. H. 

 Snyder, A. J. Kahler, S. B. Colcord, \V. C. Black, M. M. Naginey, R. F. 

 Schwarz, \V. F. Beck, 1. A. Eschbach, A. T. Holman, W. H. Stout. 

 J. F. Boyer, Jacob S. Miller, J. K. Bird, E. E. Tower, J. Newton 

 Glover, August Morck, R. J. Weld, D. S. Taylor, Warren E. Perham, 

 M. N. Clark, D. A. Knuppenburg and G. F. Barnes. 



Of the Consulting Specialists, the following were present: 



Dr. J. H. Funk, pomologist; Dr. Leonard Pearson, veterinarian; 

 Prof. Franklin Menges, entomologist; Prof. H. A. Surface, orni- 

 thologist; Col. H. C. Demming and W. H. Stout, geologists; and 

 Prof. Geo. C. Butz, apiarist. 



The CHAIRMAN: The next thing in order will be the reading of 

 the minutes of the last meeting. 



Secretary Critchfield then read the minutes of the last meeting. 



The CHAIRMAN: You have heard the reading of the minutes. 

 Are there any corrections? 



A motion was made that the minutes be approved as read. 



SECRETARY CRITCHFIELD: Mr. Chairman and Members of 

 the Board of Agriculture: Before the approval of the minutes, per- 

 haps it will be well for me to state that the Executive Committee had 

 a meeting just before we went into session, and this meeting was 

 called for the reason, that after some correspondence of the Sec- 

 retary with Dr. Wadsworth, who was elected by the Executive 

 Committee or appointed as one of the geologists of the Board, it 

 was thought best to excuse Dr. Wadsworth and appoint in his place, 

 Col. H. C. Demming, who has been the geologist of the Board for years 

 past. Dr. Wadsworth had written to the Board and asked to be 

 excused, and gave as his reasons that his work had been increased 

 so much that it would be practically impossible for him to attend 

 the meeting of the Board and to make a regular report. I am not 

 able to say whether I mentioned that matter to the Executive Com- 

 mittee or not; it is quite possible that I did not. So I wrote to him 

 to ascertain whether it was his desire to continue or still his desire 

 to be relieved, and his answer confirmed what he had said in the 

 former letter, that he was very busy at State College. If, however, 

 the Board thought best, he was willing to do the best he could and 

 so he left it with the Committee and the Board, and the Executive 

 Committee has taken action and asked me to report as I have now 

 done. I think it might be well for this amendment to the Executive 

 Committee's report to be acted upon by the Board before the ap- 

 proval of the minutes. 



