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peditionary Forces over-seas, the various forms which the work took, 

 the interest and success attending it, and some of its outgrowths. 

 The association expressed by resolution its appreciation of the 

 services in this work of President Butterfield and his associates. 



In an interesting and significant paper Dr. W. H. Jordan dis- 

 cussed institutional ethics, setting forth the moral responsibilities of 

 the institutions to the supporting public, to one another, and to their 

 staffs. Under the first head he pointed out that the obligation in 

 respect to teaching is that the scientific and technical instruction be 

 sound. This requires that teachers have abundant time for study. 

 In popular teaching a constructive attitude is called for in order to 

 avoid error. In station work the need of conservatism in publishing 

 results was pointed out, together with the danger of selecting prob- 

 lems having a popular slant. The obligations under the Hatch and 

 Adams Acts will only be met, he said, by severe study of fundamental 

 character. 



As between institutions, the drawing of men from one to another 

 was declared to be both inconsiderate and unethical. The station 

 work is subject to more serious damage from this cause than that of 

 any other branch of the college. Such change often means disaster 

 to the work and loss of funds. Conference and mutual agreement be- 

 tween the institutions concerned was advocated, to determine the time 

 when a change may reasonably and conveniently be made. Between 

 institutions and members of their staffs it was held that there should 

 be an understanding at the time of employment which will protect 

 the work. This would guard against a teacher going elsewhere be- 

 fore his work with classes is completed or an investigator abandon- 

 ing his projects. 



The bibliographer's report, presented by Dr. A. C. True, dealt with 

 the effect of the war on the course of agricultural and scientific peri- 

 odical literature in the more important European countries. It was 

 shown that not only were many important serial publications inter- 

 rupted or discontinued, or failed of their usual distribution, but that 

 to considerable extent track was lost of what was actually published 

 in that period. There is still lack of authoritative information con- 

 cerning the present status of many of these serial publications, and 

 hence the impressions presented were of unusual interest. 



As no provision was made under the new constitution for continu- 

 ing the office of bibliographer, this will be the final report of a series 

 which in the past quarter century has covered a quite wide field. 



Throughout the various meetings of the convention research may 

 be said to have been the key note. It seemed to have assumed un- 

 usual importance in the minds of speakers and of members generally. 

 Interest in it was not confined to the station section, but was evident 



