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as to cover the various lines of station activit3\ A standing commit- 

 tee on progrannne was provided for l)y each of the new sections to 

 which subjects for discussion ma}' be suggested. 



The executive committee in its report, read b}- H. C. White, noted 

 the efforts of the committee to secure the consideration of the mining 

 school bill, and the steps which have been taken toward making a 

 campaign for an increase in the Federal appropriation for experiment 

 stations. The success in securing an appropriation for a college and 

 station exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition was referred to. The com- 

 mittee has ascertained that the agrfcultural colleges will not be dis- 

 criminated against in distributing the benefits of the Cecil Rhodes 

 bequest. The committee was directed by resolution to continue its 

 effort to secure the passage of the mining school bill and an increase 

 in the appropriation for the experiment stations. On reconnnenda- 

 tion of the committee it was voted that hereafter vacancies in stand- 

 ing committees caused by resignation or death may be filled by the 

 respective committees. 



The report of the treasurer, E. B. Voorhees, showed the total 

 receipts during the year to be 11,688.55 and the total expenditures 

 $1,425.29, leaving a l)alance in the treasury' of $263.23. It was voted 

 to continue the annual assessment at $15. 



The report of the bibliographer, A. C. True, called attention to the 

 more important bibliographies which have appeared during the year, 

 a list of 110 bibliographies with explanatory notes constituting the 

 main part of the report. Special mention was made of the Inter- 

 national Catalogue of Scientific Litei-ature, several parts of which have 

 been noted in this journal. The incompleteness of this catalogue in 

 regard to certain lines of work in agricultural science, notably the 

 work of the experiment stations, was a matter of nuich regret. 



The standing committee on indexing agricultural literature called 

 attention in its report to the index cards for the publications of the 

 Department of Agriculture which are being prepared by the Library, 

 and also to the cards for the accessions to the Department Library. 

 The latter are now being printed by the Library of Congress, and can 

 be obtained at small cost, as may also the catalogue cards of the Library 

 of Congress relating to agriculture. The card catalogue of the Depart- 

 ment Library now contains over 110,000 cards, and the Library is 

 thus in position to render more efficient aid than ever before to the 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations by furnishing them 

 information in regard to the literature on particular topics, loaning 

 books, etc. Attention was called in this report to the combined index, 

 now in press, of the first twelve volumes of Experiment Station 

 Record, and to the card index of agricultural literature issued by this 

 Office. It was requested that this report be published at an early date 

 for the assistance of librarians of the colleges and stations. 



