CONVENTION OF ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1909. 



The twenty-third annual convention of the association, held at 

 Portland, Greg., August 18-20, 1909, was the second in the history 

 of the association to be held west of the Eocky Mountains, the first 

 being at San Francisco in July, 1899. The convention was well 

 attended, about 150 delegates and visitors being present, and an 

 interesting i)rogramme was presented. 



Meetings of the Association of Farmers' Institute Workers and of 

 the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science Avere held just 

 before that of the association, and the date of the convention was so 

 timed as to permit delegates to attend also the Irrigation Congress 

 at Spokane, Wash., and the meetings of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science at Winnipeg and of the Association of 

 Official Agricultural Chemists at Denver. The sessions of the con- 

 vention were held in the parlors of the Portland Hotel and in the 

 assembly hall of the Commercial Club of Portland, the courtesies of 

 which were freely extended to the members of the association. Owing 

 to the absence of President M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky, on account 

 of illness, the general sessions were presided over by Vice-President 

 W. J. Kerr, of Oregon. 



The report of the executive committee, submitted by W. E. Stone, 

 of Indiana, in the absence of Chairman W. O. Thompson, of Ohio, 

 reviewed briefly the activities of the committee during the past year. 

 Particular attention was called to the importance of more general 

 support of the Graduate School of Agriculture. In reply to an 

 inquiry as to whether the pension of a professor partly engaged in 

 research work would be based on his whole salary or only on the 

 part which he receives for teaching. President Pritchett, of the Car- 

 negie Foundation, stated to the committee that in his judgment " the 

 trustees of the Foundation would never make any discrimination in 

 such cases so long as the professor concerned did a certain amount 

 of teaching." 



The committee's report also raised the question of the advisability 

 of the association publishing its own proceedings, and a committee, 

 consisting of E. Davenport, A. B. Storms, and E, A. Brj^an, w^as ap- 

 pointed to consider this matter as well as the representation of the 

 association before the Carnegie Foundation. This committee recom- 

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