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for food products as required b}^ law. The report of the committee 

 was accepted and the committee continued. 



H. ^y. AVilcA' as chairman of the conmiittee on fertilizer legislation 

 reported that the members of the committee were individually in favor 

 of National legislation on the subject of fertilizers, but that there had 

 been no expression on the part of the committee as to the form which 

 this legislation should assume. The committee upon motion of the 

 chairman was therefore instructed to confer with interested parties 

 with a view to presenting at the next meeting a definite report upon 

 this subject. 



A committee of the American Chemical Society, appointed for the 

 l)urpose of investigating the purity of chemicals, held a meeting in 

 Washington, November 20 and 21, and by request presented to the 

 Association an outline of the work being done. 



A resolution was adopted inviting the Bureau of Standards to coop- 

 erate with the referees as far as possible in establishing the accuracy 

 of methods of analysis. 



Provision was made for the appointment of an additional referee 

 next year on the subject of medicinal plants and the drugs made 

 therefrom. 



B}' a resolution introduced by L, L. Van Sh^ke the secretar}- was 

 requested to print the recommendations of the referees as approved 

 l)y the association for distribution at as early a date as possible. 



A resolution in favor of holding the next convention of the Associa- 

 tion at St. Louis was adopted. 



OFFICERS AND REFEREES. 



The following officers were elected: 



President, M. E. Jaffa, Berkeley, Cal. : Yice-President^ C. L. Penny, 

 Newark, Del.; Secretary, H. W. Wiley, W^ashington, D. C. ; Addi- 

 tional members of executive committee^ W. P. Headden, Port Collins, 

 Colo., and W. R. Perkins, Agricultural College, Miss. The referees 

 and associate referees have not as yet been appointed. Thej" will be 

 announced later. 



