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experiment station at Mockern, Germany, on the occasion of the cele- 

 bration of its fiftieth anniversary. 



A resolution offered by W. A. Henry expressing appreciation of the 

 manual on "Ag-ricultural Experiment Stations in the United States," 

 prepared for the Paris Exposition, and requesting- a second and enlarged 

 edition, was adopted by the Association. 



A committee, consisting of W. M. Hays,T. F. Hunt, A. A. Brighani, 

 L. H. Baile}", and H. P. Armsby, was appointed to confer with the 

 Secretary of Agriculture with reference to holding a conference of 

 persons interested in plant and animal breeding. 



The Association endorsed the policy advocated by the Secretarj^ of 

 Agriculture of paying larger salaries to experts in the Department in 

 order to enable the Department to retain their services. 



It was voted to reproduce at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo 

 the cooperative experiment-station exhibit prepared for the Paris 

 Exposition, "with such withdrawals or additions as may be deemed 

 wise by the Office of Experiment Stations." The executive committee 

 was instructed to take under consideration the appointment of a rep- 

 resentative from the Association to act in c®nnection with the dairy 

 exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, 



Resolutions on the death of J. H. Smart and G. E. Morrow, both of 

 whom have until recently taken a prominent part in the Association, 

 were unanimously adopted. 



Invitations were received for the Association to meet in Michigan, 

 Mississippi, Maine, and Geneva or Ithaca, N. Y. 



The following officers were elected for the ensumg year: 



President, A. W. Harris of Maine; vice-presidents, J. K. Patterson 

 of Kentucky, W. H. Jordan of New York, R. H. Jesse of Missouri, 

 L. G. Carpenter of Colorado, and E. A. Bryan of Washington; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, E. B. Vooi'hees of New Jerse}^; bibliographer, 

 A. C. True of Washington, D. C. ; executive committee, H. H. Goodell 

 of Massachusetts, Alexis Cope of Ohio, G. W. Atherton of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and H. C. White of Georgia. 



Section on agriculture and chemistTi/. — Chairman, C. D. Woods, of 

 Maine; secretary, H. J. Waters, of Missouri. 



Section on horticulture and hotany. — Chairman, L. R. Jones, of Ver- 

 mont; secretary, W. J. Green, of Ohio. 



Section on college viork. — Chairman, J. H. Raymond, of West Vir- 

 ginia; secretary, B. O. Aylesworth, of Colorado. 



Section on entomology. — Chairman, M. V. Slingerland, of New York; 

 secretary, H. A. Morgan, of Louisiana. 



Section on nieclianic o/rts. — Chairman, H. W. Tyler, of Massachusetts; 

 secretary, F. P. Anderson, of Kentucky. 

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