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tlierefore luovo that a similar vote of c-ontiaenco and thanks be accorded to 

 Uepresentative .Moiidell. and that the secretary l)e directed to transmit tlu' reso- 

 hition to him. 



The executive conunittee recommended immcdialc consideration, and tlie mo- 

 tion was unanimously agreed to. 



ANNr.\L Dues. 



The secretary moved that the annual dues for each college and station be fixed 

 at the usual sum. ."{SI"), for the ensuing year, and the motion was agreed to. 



Federal Aid in Control and Extermination oe the Gypsy Motii. 



H. J. Wheeler, of Rhode Island, offered the followini,' resolution: 



Whereas the jiypsy moth has .Mlready gained a footliold in tlu-ee States in the 

 Union ; and 



Whereas it has as yet no eft'ective parasite enemies in the United States and is 

 in consequence a menace to the agriculture and forestry of the entire country : 

 Therefore be it * 



Resohcd, That this association is of the oi»iniou tli.il tlic tiiiu' has come when 

 the Federal Government should lend its aid in tlie control and extermination of 

 this pest. 



The executive committee recommended inuiiediate considtn-ation. and the 

 resolution was adopted. 



Memorial to I'resident H. II. Goodei.l. 



President W. E. Stone, of Indiana, delivered the foUowini,' memorial address 

 upon the life and services of I'resident Henry Hill (ioodell : 



Since the organization of this association few of its gatherings have Iteen 

 without the conspicuous and efficient participation of one whose absence from 

 the last annual meeting was so notable and the occasion of so much connnent. 

 At that time the thought would scarcely have occurred, even to his intimate 

 friends, that the long and honorable service of President Goodell to the Ameri- 

 can agricultural colleges and experiment stations had been completed. 



In the interval since that meeting his name has been written on the long roll 

 of the dead, and the association meets to-day in special session to express its 

 respect for his memory and appreciation of his work. 



To some of my hearers no word of mine can convey a better knowledge of 

 the worth and work of our late associate than they already possess from their 

 personal acquaintance and collaboration with him. But there are many other 

 members of this association who from the nature of things must have au 

 imperfect knowledge of the services of President Goodell and his contemporaries 

 in the early stages of its history. 



A review of his life and work may therefore have a twofold result : It will 

 enable us all to rightly value his high worth, and it should impress upon us the 

 significance of the work of this association in the iiast. the importance of the 

 policies that have been pursued, and the inestimable value of the services of 

 those men who have been leaders in the inception and early work of the 

 association. 



During all of his active life President Goodell toiled unceasingly in that work 

 of the establishment and advancement of agricultural education which has 

 been the principal educational event in America in the last half century ; yet. 

 strange to siay, he was not by birth, tradition, or training connected with agri- 

 culture in any way. Born of missionary parents in a foreign land, and educated 

 in a typical New England college of liberal arts, one could scarcely have pre- 

 dicted for him such a career as he followed. But a coincidence of events 

 brought him. yoiithful, ardent, and resolute, face to face with the beginnings of 

 two historic epochs worthy of his entire devotion — the civil war and the estab- 

 lishment of the great Federal system of industrial and technological education. 

 His character possessed traits which made it impossible for him not to engage 

 in these great movements. It was not prevision, for his nature never asked 

 hostages of the future : but it was a call of immediate duty, a sense of important 

 work to be performed which led him first to the service of his country, and, 



