318 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



W. H. Jordan introduced a resolution urging- upon the trustees of 

 Carnegie Institution the' importance of agricultural science to the 

 national welfare, and expressing the hope that the magniticent gift 

 of Hon. Andrew Carnegie may be used in some measure to promote 

 investigation touching the relations of the sciences to agriculture. The 

 resolution was adopted, and on motion of H. H. Goodella special com- 

 mittee, consisting of W. H. Jordan, H. C. White, and T. F. Hunt, 

 was appointed to present the matter to the trustees of Carnegie Insti- 

 tution. 



A committee consisting of H. E. Alvord. J. L. Sn3aler. W. A. 

 Henry. C. F. Curtiss, and W. M. Hays, reported brief resolutions on the 

 death of President AMlliam Le Roy liroun^ of the Ala])ama Polytech- 

 nic Institute, and President W. M. Beardshear, of the Iowa State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and recommended that 

 the committee be continued, with authority to invite suitable persons 

 to deliver brief addresses at the next convention of the association, 

 commemorative of the deceased presidents. 



A resolution, introduced by E. Davenport and adopted 1)}' the asso- 

 ciation, provided that the executive committee urge upon Congress 

 that it increase the appropriation for each agricultural experiment 

 station by the sum of $15,000 annually if in the opinion of the com- 

 mittee such action would be expedient. 



In accordance with a resolution introduced l)y A. R. Whitson and 

 adopted l)y the association, the following coiumittee on agricultural 

 engineering in land-grant colleges was appointed: W. E. Stone, A. R. 

 Whitson, C. S. Murkland, S. Fortier. and Elwood Mead. 



On motion of the secretary of the association the assessment for 

 each institution represented in the association was fixed at $15 for the 

 ensuing year. 



Amendments to the constitution, introduced by W. A. Henry, 

 provide for doing away with the present sections of the association 

 and dividing it into two sections — one on college work and adminis- 

 tration, the other on experiment station work. The amendments 

 further provide that no action on public and administrative questions 

 shall be final without the assent of the section on college work and 

 administration. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 



President, J. K. Patterson, of Kentucky: vice-presidents, R. H. 

 Jesse of Missouri, W. E. Stone of Indiana, T. H. Taliaferro of Florida, 

 C. C. Thach of Alabama, and J. W. Heston of South Dakota; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, E. R. Voorhees, of New Jersey; bibliographer, A. C. 

 True, of ^^'ashington, D. C; executive committee, H. C. White of 

 Georgia, W. O. Thompson of Ohio, W. H. Jordan of Ncav York, and 

 C. F. Curtiss of Iowa. 



Sicfioii (III (Kjrtcxlfuri' and c/ir//u'st/'>/. — Chairman, C. C Hopkins,- of 

 Illinois; secretary, J. F. Duggar, of Alabama. 



