EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XXXIII. September, 1915. No. 4. 



For the third time in its history the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations this year held its conven- 

 tion on the Pacific coast. The first meeting there was at San Francisco 

 in the summer of 1899 and the last previous one at Portland, Oregon, 

 in 1909. This year members from the East and the Central West 

 again journeyed across the plains and the momitains to meet with 

 their colleagues of the West on their own field of action. The sessions 

 were held at Berkeley in the spacious agricultural building of the 

 University of California, August 11-13, 1915. 



The meeting was generally considered a successful and satisfactory 

 one from all points of view. The registration was unusually large — 

 considerably over two hundred, the representation was very general 

 from all parts of the country, and the attendance on the various 

 sessions was good. Despite the attractions of the exposition the con- 

 vention held the attention of the delegates, most of whom stopped 

 at Berkeley, to a degree which showed the serious purpose of the 

 meeting and the interest maintained in it. The number of special 

 conferences was unusually large. 



The convention was preceded by the summer meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science and the annual 

 gathering of various distinctly agricultural associations, and it was 

 followed by the meeting of the National Education Association. 

 Rarely has so large a body of persons interested in education and 

 research been brought together in a series of consecutive meetings. 



TMiile the convention took no action of outstanding importance, 

 there were fully the usual number of matters of special interest to 

 the land-grant colleges and the various departments of their work. 

 The animated discussion of some of these matters showed the vital 

 interest which surrounds them at this time, and in some instances a 

 desire for greater opportunity for discussion than the limits of the 

 sessions afforded. ^^^ 



