CONVENTION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 707 



On motion of A. W. Harris, a committee of seven, consisting- of G. W. 

 Atherton (chairman), A. W. Harris, C. TV. Dabney, A. Cope, H. H. 

 Goodell, R. H. Jesse, and H. C.White, was appointed "to consider the 

 organization and extent of military work which can be properly under- 

 taken by the land-grant colleges and the proper relation of this work 

 to the military service of the several States and of the United States; 

 that this committee, in conjunction with the executive committee of the 

 Association, be empowered to propose and secure if practicable such 

 legislation as may be necessary to carry out the conclusions Avhich the 

 committee may reach." 



One of the important reports submitted was that of the committee 

 on the collective station exhibit at the Paris Exposition. This report 

 gave the general features of a plan which the committee has formulated 

 for this exhibit, which is to be similar to that at the World's Fair at 

 Chicago. The recommendation of the committee that the exhibit when 

 prepared should be a permanent one and that the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture be requested to provide a proper place for it after its return 

 from Paris, was adopted by the Association. The committee was con- 

 tinued and instructed to prepare the exhibit. This committee is made 

 up as follows : H. P. Armsby (chairman), W. H. Jordan, A. W. Harris, 

 M. A. Scovell, and A. C. True. 



As was expected, the question of amendment to the constitution, 

 brought over from the previous convention, 1 received very full considera- 

 tion and discussion. The discussion developed a very strong opposition 

 to confining the work of the Association to purely administrative mat- 

 ters. The majority report recommending the abolition of all sections 

 was rejected, while the minority report providing for 3 sections, (1) 

 administrative, (2) agriculture, and (3) horticulture, was laid on the 

 table. 



The committee on engineering experiment stations submitted a brief 

 report of progress, and recommended that the bill which has been drawn 

 up to be laid before Congress be so amended as to permit investigation 

 in marine engineering, naval architecture, and the theory and use of 

 projectiles on laud and sea. The committee, consisting of C. S. Murk- 

 land (chairman), F. P. Anderson, M. H. Buckhara, A. W. Harris, and 

 J. E. Stubbs, was continued, and directed to cooperate with the execu- 

 tive committee in urging this legislation upon Congress. 



The report of the bibliographer, A. C. True, outlined the bibliograph- 

 ical work of the Department of Agriculture during the year, and gave a 

 list of 10 or more bibliographies of interest to agriculture which have 

 recently appeared. 



The committee on indexing agricultural literature submitted through 

 the chairman, A. C. True, a report embodying a scheme of classifica- 

 tion of agricultural literature prepared by W. P. Cutter, Librarian of 

 the Department of Agriculture. "This classification is designed to cover 

 agriculture only, and not such subjects as farm architecture, systematic 



1 V. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Bui. 49, p. 28, 



