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executive committee is hereby instructed to take such measures as will in its judg- 

 ment best promote tlio speedy and efficient carrying out of this plan — 



"That a committee of five, including the Librarian of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, he appointed to act as an advisory committee in tin- selection of the books 

 to he indexed and in the working out of other details of the index." 



H. E. Armstrong, of London, England, chairman of the committee 

 of the Koyal Society on an international index of scientific literature, 

 commended the suggestions of this report, and referred briefly to the 

 contemplated work of the Koyal Society. 



The plan outlined in the report was indorsed by the Association and 

 the chairman appointed the following committee: W. M. Hays, T. P. 

 Hunt, E. Davenport, A. C. True, and W. P. Cutter (Librarian of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture). 



The report of the bibliographer, A. C. True, briefly noted the progress 

 which had been made in the collection, cataloguing, and indexing of 

 agricultural publications in the Department since the last convention. 

 "Excluding Government publications and publications of societies, there 

 have been received at the Library of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture since the issue of Circular No. 31 of the Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations, entitled ' Some Books on Agriculture and Agricultural 

 Science,' something over TOO books and pamphlets relating to agricul- 

 ture/' In addition to the special bibliographical work of the Library of 

 the Department and of the Experiment Station Record, and the card 

 index of experiment station literature, it is proposed in the future "to 

 publish from time to time notices of books on agricultural subjects by 

 combining the lists given in the Department Library accession bulletins 

 with such statements regarding the character and contents of these 

 books as can be prepared in the Library and the Office of Experiment 

 Stations." 



The report of the special committee on codification was read by the 

 chairman of the executive committee. This report is a compilation of 

 all important resolutions, etc., adopted by the convention since its 

 organization, topically classified. The report was accepted and ordered 

 to be printed, together with the constitution, in one pamphlet. 



The report of the committee on uniformity in station nomenclature 

 was submitted by H. P. Armsby. This report lays down certain general 

 rules regarding the naming of the parts of plants, the use of common 

 names, the nomenclature of fungi, and the stating of the ingredients of 

 Bordeaux mixture, and defines the terms nodule (cubercle), pollination, 

 fecundation, fertilization, sterile, sterilized, and pasteurized. 



The report, after amendment, was accepted. 



The following resolution, referred to the executive committee at the 

 last convention, was adopted on recommendation of this committee: 



Besoh'td, That this Association recommends that the puhlications of each station 

 for the year he paged consecutively, and that there he appended to the annual report 

 or the final publication for the year a title page and an alphahetical index of sub- 

 jects similar to that in the Experiment Station liecord. 



