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A resolution endorsing a national law providing for the government in- 

 spection of all imports was referred to their Legislative Committee. 



The members of your committee present were given an opportunity to dis- 

 cuss national legislation for the inspection of imported nursery stock as 

 well as nursery stock for interstate traffic in pursuance with the action taken 

 by this Association. Every effort was made to come to some definite arrange- 

 ment for future action. It was clearly seen at this meeting, however, that 

 the sentiments of the nurserymen as a whole were not in favor of legislation 

 of this character at this time, but that they still desired more uniformity in 

 the inspection laws of the several states. 



Respectfully submitted, 



T. B. Symons, 

 A. F. Burgess, 



Committee. 



On motion it Avas voted that the report be accepted and the o/nn- 

 mittee discharged. 



The report of a committee appointed to attend the Annual Meet- 

 ing of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science vas 

 presented by the Secretary, as follows: 



REPORT ON AFFILIATION WITH AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS 



Mr. President and Members of the Association: 



Last August I received a letter from Prof. Thomas F. Hunt, director of 

 the Pennsylvania Experiment Station and who was president of the Society 

 for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, asking that a committee of this 

 Association be appointed to attend a conference in Washington, D. C, in No- 

 vember, to consider the advisability of affiliating the different societies inter- 

 ested in agricultural science. The letter was transmitted to Dr. S. A. Forbes, 

 the President of this Association, who appointed Dr. J. B. Smith, Prof. Frank- 

 lin Sherman, Jr., and myself as members of that committee. Professor Sher- 

 man was unable to attend the meeting, but Doctor Smith and myself were 

 present. Nothing definite was accomplished, as the Society for the Promotion 

 of Agricultural Science had no definite plan to discuss. Some of those pres- 

 ent were in favor of forming a national society for the advancement of agri- 

 cultural science by using the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science as a basis. After the other societies interested in the matter had 

 joined this association, it was planned to form sections. 



Another idea was to have some simple form of affiliation so that mestings 

 could be carried on during the general sessions without serious confliets in 

 the pi'ograin. 



Several days after this meeting I had the following correspondence with 

 Dr. H. J. Wheeler: 



Mr. a. p. Bxjbgess, Kingston, R. I., November 25, 1908. 



Bureau of Entomology, 



U. S. Dept. of Agr., Washington, D. C. 

 Dear Sir: As a member of committees representing two organizations which 

 have under consideration the desirability of affiliating various scientific so- 

 cieties dealing with applied science in its relation to agriculture, I write to 



