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Research was represented on the program by Dr. W. P. Thompson 

 of the University of Saskatchewan, who discussed Scientific Research 

 in Relation to Agricultural Problems, and Dr. A. B. Macallum, chair- 

 man of the Dominion Research Council, who took up the aims of the 

 council in this direction. Study Courses at our Agricultural Col- 

 leges were considered by Dr. F. C. Harrison of Macdonald College, 

 and Post Graduate Courses in Agriculture, by Dr. Cumming. Agri- 

 cultural Extension "Work was the subject of an address bj' Mr. George 

 A. Putnam of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Among other 

 papers presented were those on Federal and Provincial Agricultural 

 Policies by President Klinck; The Agricultural College in Relation 

 to the Farmers' Movement, by Professor J. W. Crow of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College ; and The Basic Industry as Seen Through 

 Urban E^^es, by Mr. Thomas Moore, president of the Trades and 

 Labor Congress. The program was concluded by an inspiring ad- 

 dress by President Reynolds, entitled A Vision for Canadian Agri- 

 culture. 



A special feature of the meeting was a banquet at which the guest 

 of honor was the Duke of Devonshire, Governor General of the 

 Dominion. In an address of congratulation. His Excellency drew at- 

 tention to the long career of usefulness of the Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety of England, and prophesied far-reaching results from the 

 " keenness and wholehearted desire which 'there is throughout the 

 whole Dominion of Canada to make the very best use we can of the 

 practical application of science to the needs and requirements of the 

 country." 



The Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists thus appears to 

 have been launched under very auspicious circumstances, and its sub- 

 sequent development and progress will be followed with widespread 

 interest. Notably in our own country, where representatives of the 

 Canadian agricultural colleges and similar institutions have long 

 been familiar and most welcome participants in scientific and educa- 

 tional gatherings, will the many expressions of good wishes already 

 evoked by the formation of the society be cordially indorsed. The 

 fact that it will occupy a field not preciseh'' paralleled by any single 

 organization in the United States, corresponding as it does in some 

 functions to our Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, 

 in others to the Association of Land Grant Colleges, and with many 

 points of unique individuality, will further intensify interest in its 

 practical workings. 



Inquiries are occasionally received from users of the Record with 

 reference to the feasibility of a revision of the system of classifica- 

 tion of abstracts. Many of these inquiries advocate the reassign- 

 ment of specific classes of abstracts from one to another of the 



