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Resolved. That these resolutions be entered on the records of this meeting and 

 a copy be traiismittetl immediately to Mr. Mondell. 



Resolution Regarding Maj. Henry E. Alvord. 



For the committee on resolutions concerning the late Henry E. Alvord, J. K. 

 Patterson, the chairman, presented the following : 



This association has heard with profound regret of the death of Maj. Henry 

 E. Alvord. He had not reached the average limit of human life, and many 

 years of usefulness seemed yet to lie before him when the end suddenly came. 

 But within the limits of the life allotted to him he had accomplished more than 

 many of his contemporaries. 



Sprung from a hardy New England stock, endowed with a vigorous physical 

 constitution and an active mind, his education was liberal as well as practical, 

 and his opportunities were well improved. Leaving the employment of a civil 

 engineer, in which he doubtless would have earned distinction, he offered his 

 services ere he had attained his majority to the Government at the beginning of 

 the civil war. entering as a private at its commencement, and advancing to the 

 rank of major before its close. Promoted into the Regular Army because of the 

 effective service which he had rendered as an officer of volunteers, he served in 

 that branch of the service until 1872, resigning with the i-ank of captain. 



As special Indian commissioner, as manager of the Houghton farm, as secre- 

 tary of the American Jersey Cattle Club, as professor of agriculture in the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College and in New Hampshire College of Agricul- 

 ture and Mechanic Arts, as president of the Agricultural College of Maryland, 

 as president of the Oklahoma Agricultiiral and Mechanical College, as president 

 of this association, and as chief of the Dairy Division in the Department of 

 Agriculture, he identified himself with the progress of scientific agriculture in 

 America to a degree above and beyond most men of his time. 



But it is as one of the founders and one of the members of this association 

 that we knew him so intimately and so long. To his remarkable power of ini- 

 tiative, his happy appreciation of opportunities, and his singular forecast of the 

 possibilities of an organization such as this, its origin and success are largely 

 due. His intimate relations with members of Congress and his acquaintance 

 with legislative procedure in connuittee and on the floors of the Senate and 

 House were of incalculable value in its Inception and in its growth. The 

 impress of his masterly hand remains upon this association to this day. Dur- 

 ing the progress of the Hatch Act through Congress in 1887 and of the Morrill 

 bill in 1890. his activity was indefatigable. 



This association therefore desires to place on record its high estimate of his 

 ability, his integrity, his knowledge of men. his great powers of organization, 

 his singular fidelity to his cherished ideals, his intelligent directive powers, his 

 great common sense, and his uniform courage and courtesy in maintaining his 

 views of public policy. 



A sincere friend, a patriot, a soldier without sectional bitterness or prejudice, 

 an efficient administrative, and a wise counselor, with a lofty ideal of duty and 

 of honor, this association discharges a duty to itself by bearing hearty testi- 

 mony to his conspicuous worth as a citizen arid as a man. 



Rrsohnl. That a copy of this paper be incorporated in the record of this asso- 

 ciation, and a copy be sent by the secretary with assurance of sympathy and 

 condolence to the family of the deceased. ' 



James K. Patterson, 

 H. P. Armsby, 

 W. A. Henry, 



Committee. 



On motion of President W. E. Stone, of Indiana, seconded by President J. C. 

 Hardy, of Mississippi, the resolutions were unanimously adopted by rising vote. 



Election of Officers. 



M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky, reported that the section on experiment station 

 work nominated to the convention for chairman of that section H. J. Patterson, 

 of Maryland, and for secretary M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky. 



