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and (Ie(;laratioiis of previous meeting-s of the Association coucerning 

 uniformity in action on tlie part of colleges and stations in matters of 

 common interest." The report was referred to the executive committee 

 to be edited and printed and submitted to the uext annual convention. 



A committee of three was appointed to revise the constitution of the 

 Association and report at the uext meeting. This committee consists 

 of J. H. Smart, of Indiana; II. E. Alvord, of this Department; and 

 H. n. Goodell, of Massachusetts. 



The committee on nomenclature appointed at the last convention 

 submitted a report defining a number of terms used in connection with 

 field crops, breeds and breeding, feeding stuffs, animal chemistry and 

 physiology, dairying, horticulture, and entomology. Objections were 

 raised regarding a number of the terms included in the report, and 

 these were referred back to the committee for further consideration 

 and report at the next meeting. The committee is as follows: H. P. 

 Armsby, of Pennsylvania; E. H. Jenkins, of Connecticut; S. M. 

 Tracy, of Mississippi; C. P. Gillette, of Colorado; and A. C. True, of 

 this Office. 



On invitation of the Association, Senator Morrill, of Vermont, 

 attended one of the sessions of the convention, and received a most 

 cordial welcome. Subsequently the convention adopted resolutions 

 congratulating him upon his recent reelection to the Senate, and upon 

 his long and distinguished j)ublic services. 



Eesolutions of regret on the death of Edwin Willits, Ex-Assistant 

 Secretary of Agriculture, were also adopted, and a telegram of sympa- 

 thy was sent to Ex-Congressman W. H. Hatch, of Missouri. 



The convention in a body attended a session of the National Grange, 

 which was holding its convention in Washington at that time; and by 

 special appointment the members of the Association were received by 

 the President of the United States. 



The Association received invitations to hold its next annual conven- 

 tion at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Geneva and Ithaca, New York; and 

 Wooster, Ohio. 



The officers of the Association for the ensuing year are as follows: 



President, G. T. Fairchild, of Kansas; vice-presidents, M. H. Buck- 

 ham of Vermont, James Wilson of Iowa, J. M. McBryde of Virginia, 

 A. Kingsbury of New Hampshire, and J. E. Stubbs of Nevada; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, J. H. Washburn, of Ehode Island; executive com- 

 mittee, H. H. Goodell of Massachusetts (chairman), A. Cope of Ohio, 

 H. C. White of Georgia, and T. J. Burrill of Illinois; bibliographer, 

 A. C. True, of Washington, I). C. 



/Section on agriculture and chemistry. — Chairman, W. H. Jordan, of 

 New York; secretary, H. J. Waters, of Missouri. 



Section on botany and horticnJturc. — (,'hairman, P. II. Mell, of Ala- 

 bama; secretary, L. C. Corbett, of West Virginia. 

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