2 EXPEEIMENT STATION KECORD. 



permanent delegate of the United States to the institute from its 

 inception, and resident at Rome. 



At the opening meeting, Count Francisco Guicciardini, delegate 

 of Italy, was elected president of the assembly, and Baron Bernhard 

 Yon Ehrenfels, of Austria, and Mr. Paul de Vuyst, of Belgium, vice 

 presidents. The assembly was then divided into four large com- 

 mittees (called commissions), corresponding in a general way to 

 the four bureaus of the institute, on each of which each country 

 was represented by one or more delegates. The various reports, 

 already prepared and printed setting forth the matters on which 

 the assembly was to pass, were distributed to these commissions. 



Commission I, on administration and finance, considered reports 

 on the work of the institute for the past two years, submitted by 

 Marquis Cappelli of Italy, president of the institute, and on the 

 finances of the institute by M. Fialho, of Brazil. To Commission 

 II, on statistics, was entrusted the reports on the crop reporting and 

 statistical service, by Dr. Miiller of Germany, on commercial statistics 

 by M. Zabiello of Russia, and on statistics of live stock by Chevalier 

 de Pozzi of Austria. Commission III, on agricultural intelligence 

 and plant diseases, dealt with the reports on the statistics of fer- 

 tilizers, by M. Pioda of Switzerland ; the organization of an inter- 

 national service of agricultural meteorology, by M. Louis-Dop of 

 France; the steps to be taken toward an international agreement for 

 the control of plant diseases, by Professor Cuboni, representing 

 Ethiopia ; seed adulteration by M. de Jaczewski, of Russia ; and the 

 protection of birds and on dry farming, by M. de Miklos of Hungary. 

 Agricultural cooperation was the subject of Commission IV, includ- 

 ing the reports on statistics of agricultural cooperation, by Chevalier 

 de Pozzi, and on insurance against damage to crops by hail, by M. 

 Bolle of Belgium. 



The recommendations contained in the reports had already been 

 passed upon by the Permanent Committee of the institute. In some 

 cases there was much discussion of certain recommendations in the 

 respective commissions and important changes were made in them. 

 Afterwards two general meetings of the assembly were held, at 

 which the final reports of the commissions were received, debated, 

 and adopted. 



The administrative report, presented by Marquis Cappelli, briefly 

 epitomized the progress of the institute since the preceding meeting 

 in 1911. During this interval five additional countries, namely 

 Paraguay, Guatemala, the Dutch East Indies, the Union of South 

 Africa, and Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, have given their support to 

 the institute, rai^ng the total number contributing to fifty-three. 

 Of these, sixteen have elected membership in what is known as group 



