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methods in farming, etc." The committee also pointed out that any 

 scheme for publishing will require some supervision, and suggested 

 the desirability for providing in connection with the director's office 

 some machinery for assuring systematic attention to manuscript and 

 matter in course of publication. 



A report on publications from a committee of the Agricultural 

 Libraries section of the American Library Association was also re- 

 ceived, and is to be included in the proceedings of the association. 

 This report dealt more specifically with the details of distribution of 

 the publications among libraries, and their most effective utilization. 



Still another phase of the subject was touched upon in the report 

 of the association's cominittee on the publication of research, which 

 again indicated very clearly some of the advantages accruing from 

 the use of the Joum/il of Agricultural Research as a medium of pub- 

 lication. It was stated that of the one hundred and eleven papers 

 appearing in the journal during the past year, fifty-seven were from 

 station workers, representing twenty-four institutions. 



The proposed initiation of Federal aid to research in engineering 

 was again considered by the engineering section, and a compromise 

 measure submitted by a committee of that section was subsequently 

 approved by the association itself. This measure would provide 

 $15,000 per annum of Federal funds to each State and Territory for 

 engineering experimentation at the land-grant college, but would 

 involve an equal appropriation by the States for similar work to be 

 conducted either at the same institution or elsewhere as determined 

 by the legislature. The executive committee was instructed to urge 

 the consideration of legislation along these lines as a war measure. 



The election of officers resulted in the selection of Dean Eugene 

 Davenport of Illinois as president; President C. A. Lory of Colo- 

 rado, President A. M. Soule of Georgia, Director J. G. Lipman of 

 New Jersey, President A. F. Woods of Maryland, and Dean R. W. 

 Thatcher of Minnesota, vice presidents; and the reelection of the pre- 

 vious secretary-treasurer and bibliographer. The membership of the 

 various committees underwent few changes. The vacancies caused 

 by the retirement from land-grant college work of Presidents Waters 

 of Kansas and Duniway of Wyoming were filled respectively by the 

 appointment of Prof. G. A. Works of Cornell University to the 

 committee on instruction in agriculture and President C A. Lory 

 of Colorado to the committee on college organization and policy. 

 President W. M. Riggs of South Carolina succeeded President 

 Waters on the executive committee, the personnel of which was other- 

 wise continued unchanged. An amendment to the constitution pro- 

 posing the enlargement of the executive committee to six members. 



