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In the section on entomology the following papers were presented : 

 Certain Notes and Observations of the Season at the Iowa Experiment 

 Station, by-C. P. Gillette, M. S., of the Iowa Station ; The Life History 

 of Baris confinis, aud Life History of certain Aphididce^ by C M. Weed, 

 D. Sc, of the Ohio Station ; A New Eoot-Rot Disease of Cotton, by Gr. 

 F. Atkinson, Ph. B., of the Alabama College and Station; New Notes 

 on the Life History of the Hessian Fly, by J. Marten of Illinois; The 

 Laboratory Method of Experimentation, by C. W. Woodworth, M. S., 

 of the Arkansas Station ; Practical Notes on the Use of Insecticides, by 

 M. H. Beckwith of the Delaware College and Station ; The Host Rela- 

 tions of Parasitic Kymenoptera, by L. O. Howard of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture ; Experiments for the Destruction of Chinch- 

 Bugs in the Field by the Artificial Introduction of Contagious Diseases, 

 by F. H. Snow of Kansas. 



In the section on college work. President J. H. Smart of Purdue Uni- 

 versity, made an address on Waste in College Work. A large share of 

 the session of this section was devoted to a discussion of the duties and 

 obligations of the colleges growing out of the recent act of Congress in 

 their behalf. As the result of this discussion the following resolutions 

 were adopted : 



1. That every college should keep a separate and distinct account with the income 

 to be derived under the act of Congress approved August 30, 1890. 



2. That in the expenditure of the new college income the institutions here repre- 

 sented should conform to a strict interpretation of the language of the law as to the 

 application of these funds. 



3. That in view of the history of the new Morrill act and the decisions of the first 

 comptroller of the Treasury that under it the two annual payments are now due and 

 payable to the States, and the fact that instruction during the academic year of 

 1889-90 is a thing of the past, the annual payment of $15,000 for the year ending 

 June 30, 1890, should be regarded as far as practicable as an equipment fund, and 

 that the annual payment now past due for the year ending June 30, 1891, should be 

 a,pplied to the expenses of the current academic year. 



4. That the officers of this association be requested to respectfully urge upon the 

 Secretary of the Interior the early payment to every State and Territory having one 

 or more institutions organized under the act of July 2, 1862, of both payments now 

 due under the supplementary acf of 1890, in accordance with the evident intention 

 of Congress to apply these benefits equally to all the States and Territories, and in 

 order to avoid impeding the progress and development of industrial education, which 

 would result from withholding payments and reporting the same to Congress. 



5. That the first reports to the Secretary of the Interior by college presidents and 

 treasurers should be made in the year 1891 before the first day of September and should 

 ■cover the operations of the year ending June 30, 1891, and the disbursements of the 

 income for that year, together with the use made of the first payment of $15,000. 



6. That this association desires to acknowledge its appreciation of the courtesy and 

 liberal spirit shown by the Secretary of the Interior in his action regarding the new 

 Morrill act, and is gratified by the assignment of the business arising under this act 

 to the Bureau of Education, with which the institutions concerned have official rela- 

 tions already existing, and it is respectfully suggested that the future transactions 

 between the Department of the Interior aud the colleges may be simplified and all 

 interests conserved by making the Bureau of Education the depository of all the 

 records and reports and the medium for direct intercourse with the colleges on all 

 matters requiring final action by the Secretary of the Interior. 



