PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRI- 

 CULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



MINUTES OF THE GENERAL SESSION. 



MoRNiXG Session, Tuesday, November 1, 1004. 



The convention was called to order at 10 o'clock a. ui.. in the banquet room of 

 the Hotel Chamberlain, at Des Moines, Iowa. President ^Y. O. Thompson, of Ohio, 

 in the chair. 



Prayer was offered bj J. Chalmers, of South Dakota. 



On motion the following persons were voted the privileges of the convention 

 under the clause of the constitution which provides that " delegates from other 

 Institutions engaged in educational or experimental work in the interest of agri- 

 culture or mechanic arts may, by a majority vote, be admitted to conventions of 

 the association, with all privileges except the right to vote :" N. S. Mayo, Central 

 Experiment Station. Cuba : H. Hayward. Mount Hermon Institute. Massachu- 

 setts ; G. G. Iledgcock, Missouri Botanical Garden; I.. W. Watkins, Michigan 

 Board of Agriculture; W. V. Cox, secretary Government Board Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition. 



Resolution Rexating to Association of State Universities. 



H. C. White, of Georgia, on behalf of the executive committee, offered the fol- 

 lowing resolution, and asked immediate action : 



Resolved, That the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations extend to the National Association of State Universities, now in 

 session in this city, a most cordial greeting in recognition of common and mutual 

 endeavors in the cause of learning, and in assurance of fraternal admiration and 

 €steem. 



Resolved, second. That members of the Association of State Universities be 

 invited to seats on the floor during this convention. 



The resolTntioD was axJopted, and the secretary was directed to transmit it at 



once. 



Report of the Executive Committee. 



The report of the executive connnittee was presented by H. C. White, of 

 Georgia, chairman, as follows : 



Your executive committee, appointed at the seventeenth annual convention 

 of the association, lield in Washington, D. C, November 17-10. 190.3, met imme- 

 diately upon adjournment of the convention, and organized by the selection of 

 President H. C. White, of Georgia, as chairman. Acting under instructions of 

 the committee, the chairman issued and posted to each member of the associa- 

 tion, under date of December 15, 1903, an abstract memorandum of the proceed- 



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