696 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Ten delegates were appointed by Secretary Root, seven being university pro- 

 fessors, and the reruainder government otficers. The delegation was composed 

 as follows : Prof. L. S. Rowe, University of Pennsylvania, chairman ; Prof. 

 Paul S. Reinsch, University of Wisconsin, vice-chairman ; Prof. Hiram Bingham, 

 Yale University ; Prof. A. C. Coolidge, Harvard University ; Col. W. C. Gorgas, 

 U. S. Army ; Prof. W. H. Holmes, Smithsonian Institution ; Prof. Bernard . 

 Moses, University of California; Mr. Geo. M. Rommel, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture ; Prof. W. R. Shepherd, Columbia University ; and Prof. W. B. 

 Smith, Tulane University. The university men on the government delegation 

 also represented their respective universities, and the following educational 

 institutions sent deleii;ates direct or were represented by alumni residents in 

 South America : Chicago, Cornell, Harvard. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and 

 Northwestern universities. The National Education Association and the Asso- 

 ciation of American Universities were likewise represented. 



The congress attracted a great deal of interest throughout South America, and 

 wherever the delegates went they were received with marked attention. In 

 Chile itself the government and the public vied with each other in providing 

 entertainment, while the press paid an unusual amount of attention to the pro- 

 ceedings, publishing entire the official reports of each section. 



The congress was divided into the following sections: I, Pure and applied 

 mathematics; II, physics and chemistry; III, natural sciences, anthropology, 

 and ethnology; IV, engineering; V, medicine and hygiene; VI, jurisprudence; 

 VII, social science; VIII, pedagogy; and IX, agronomy and zootechnics. The 

 attendance was largest in the sections on medicine and hygiene, social science, 

 and pedagogy. In the section on agronomy and zootechnics, the attendance was 

 small but representative. The greater part of the time of this section was taken 

 up with discussions of agricultural education, and the fadt is of the highest 

 importance as showing the interest which our southern neighbors have in the 

 training of young men to become expert farmers and stockmen or to engage in 

 research work in agricultural science. 



The trend of discussion in this section can be best shown by quoting verbatim 

 the resolutions on agricultural education presented by the section to the con- 

 gress. They were as follows : 



Agricultural education for its development should be divided into three 

 grades; superior, secondary, and practical-elementary. 



A. Superior agricultural education. — The section of agronomy and zootech- 

 nics declares that it regards as indispensable that the American countries which 

 have not already done so give to superior education in agriculture the character 

 of university instruction. 



To this end a faculty of agronomy should be established with due provision 

 that the institutions which give this instruction are supplied with the necessary 

 laboratories and are located on property of their own, in which said instruction 

 can be amply applied and demonstrated. 



6. Secondary education. — The instruction of a secondary character should be 

 theoretical and practical, and should be distinguished by its local character, 

 confining especially the work done to the branches of agriculture peculiar to 

 the region in which they are situated, and developing the teaching of them un- 

 der a local management. The institutions which give this instruction should 

 be established on farm properties of sufficient extent, conveniently located, and 

 adapted to an economical development so as to train agriculturists and special- 

 ists capable of directing work on a rural establishment. 



C. Practical-elementary education. — The practical-elementary education should 

 be local and made specific in certain branches of agronomic science best suited 

 to local application, developing the work in detail and supplying the proper ex- 



