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rowed from other publications. I would like to do some work in 

 cooperation with other men. 



Mr. Symons: I wish to express my appreciation of the president's 

 address, and I wonder if it would be out of the way to suggest the 

 appointment of a standing committee to carry out this idea, mentioned 

 by Dr. Headlee, to start a system of uniform methods, which we could 

 all agree to, as treatment against various pests. We have a standing 

 committee which has done most excellent work in the suggestion of 

 common names, and I wonder if we could not make a start on a 

 uniform method in the treatment of some of our insect pests. For 

 instance, it would not be out of the way for this Association to indorse 

 the lime-sulphur treatment for San Jose scale. Anything that will 

 tend to strengthen our position, it seems to me, will be advantageous. 

 As was pointed out by President Sanderson in regard to the chemists, 

 their methods are accepted by practically all official chemists, and it 

 may be that we could make a start. 



Mr. Hunter: I think that the president's address was one that 

 looked far into the future. It deals with the problem that is before 

 us, not only in our own line, but practically all lines. The question is 

 whether the greatest advance in science is to be through cooperation 

 or competition. It seems to me the important thing is the advance- 

 ment of science rather than of any personal matter. Now, I think 

 that one speaker spoke very well when he said there was a great diffi- 

 culty in formulating plans. I think we all agree that plans, however 

 thoroughly recognized, are of little avail unless the true spirit is evi- 

 dent. We have taken up the matter of cooperation in our own insti- 

 tution, in the past few years in larger degree than ever before, and, 

 speaking personally, I must say that it has not seemed a curb to indi- 

 viduality or originality, but rather to stimulate it. For instance, in 

 one problem our department had under way, about completed now, 

 the problem was turned over to our department and the department 

 of bacteriology; another one was turned over to our department and 

 that of biology, dealing with the external and internal features, and 

 there are a number of problems in our state being worked out by ouc 

 institution, and all through the departments working together. It 

 has been to me a personal stimulus to better and more thorough work, 

 and I am going away from this meeting with a deepened impression 

 of the unanimity of spirit manifest here. 



Mr. Headlee : It has surely seemed to me that one of the greatest 

 results that can come from the work of such a committee is the inspira- 

 tion that such a committee may give as the result of broad-gauged 

 discussion of the projects. It should get out a report which should 

 stand, in respect to this work, much as the Carnegie reports stand in 



