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that specific authorit}^ be granted by the association to this standing 

 committee on extension work to make a study of this sul3Ject, and to 

 report on it at a future meeting of the association." The recom- 

 mendation that the association organize a section to be knoAvn as the 

 section on extension work was indefinitely postponed, but C. F. Curtiss 

 gave notice of a proposed amendment to the constitution, to lie over 

 and be discussed and acted upon at the next convention, permitting 

 the organization of such a section. The recommendations of the com- 

 mittee " that the association place itself on record in favor of a mod- 

 erate Federal appropriation to be made to the land-grant colleges for 

 the purpose of carrying on extension work in agriculture, under a 

 plan which requires the States also to make appropriations for the 

 work,-' and " that the association request Congress to extend the 

 franking privilege to bona fide extension publications issued by the 

 land-grant colleges," were referred to the section on college work and 

 administration for approval as required by the constitution, but no 

 action was reported by that section at this meeting. 



The report of the standing committee on station organization and 

 policy made important suggestions and recommendations regarding 

 (1) the relation between the work of research and that of administra- 

 tion in experiment station policy, (2) permanence and continuity as 

 prime essentials in station w'ork, (3) inspection work in relation 

 to other lines of station activity, and (4) relation of the working staff 

 of the station to instruction in the college. The essential features of 

 these recommendations have already been discussed editorially in the 

 Record (E. S. R., 20, p. 303) and will not be further considered here. 



Assistant Secretary Hays explained a system of project records 

 which has been used with success in this Department and in several 

 of the experiment stations. He thought that some such system as 

 this might be made a useful means of adjusting administrative rela- 

 tions between different institutions and of securing better and more 

 uniform methods, and might ultimateh' become, if generally adopted, 

 something of a clearing house for administrative work. 



A feature of the proceedings of great interest and importance was 

 the report of the Commission on Agricultural Research appointed at 

 the 190G convention of the association '' to inquire into and report to 

 the association the organization and policy that in the opinion of the 

 commission should prevail in the expenditure of public moneys pro- 

 vided for scientific experimentation and research in the interests of 

 agriculture, to the end that such funds shall be applied in the most 

 economical, efficient, and worthy manner to the production of results 

 of permanent value." David Starr Jordan, Stanford ITniversity, 

 California, as chairman, submitted a carefully prepared report em- 

 bodying (1) a statement of present conditions affecting the efficiency 

 of agricultural research, taking this term to mean " the scientific 



