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meetings effective. He urged a strict interpretation of the 

 Morrill and Hatch acts, and a careful use of the privileges 

 conferred by them. He pointed out the dangers to the col- 

 lege and station funds of legislation which reduced the in- 

 come from the sale of public lands : and his committee was 

 instrumental in securing the passage in 1900 of a clause pro- 

 viding that, if at any time the proceeds from the sale of pub- 

 lic lands should be insufficient to meet the annual appropri- 

 ations for the colleges and experiment stations, the same 

 should be paid from any funds in the Treasury, thus plac- 

 ing these funds on a sure foundation. 



"President Goodell was President of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations 

 in 1891, being the third to hold that office. His address be- 

 fore the convention of that year dealt with some of the 

 achievements of the agricultural experimentation and the 

 guiding principles underlying it. It led up to an apprecia- 

 tion of the work of the Rothamsted Experiment Station, 

 concluding with the presentation of Dr. R. Warington, 

 who came as the first representative of the English station 

 to deliver a course of lectures under the provisions of the 

 Lawes trust. Two years later, when Sir Henry Gilbert 

 came to this country on a similar mission, President 

 Goodell arranged to have these classic lectures delivered 

 under the auspices of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, the pressure of other business making it impractica- 

 ble for more than an introduction to them to be delivered 

 at the meeting of the association." 



In an address delivered at the request of the association, 

 President W. E. Stone of Purdue University, Indiana, gives 

 the following account of his work : — 



