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Secretary of Agriculture, stating the wish of the Association, 

 and asking whether such installation and care were feasible. 

 The following reply was received: "The exhibit is now at 

 Buffalo, and very likely will be used at Charleston next 

 winter. The question of its permanent installation here 

 will be carefully considered when we are through with its use 

 at these expositions." 



In the closing hours of the last convention a communica- 

 tion was received from the management of the Pan Ameri- 

 can Exposition, asking that a delegate be appointed to the 

 dairy test to be held in Buffalo. The executive committee 

 was directed to appoint a delegate. At a meeting held later, 

 Director W. H. Jordan was so appointed. 



Conformably to resolution offered by Dr. Dabney, a me- 

 morial was sent to the honorable Secretary of Agriculture 

 indorsing his action in opening the Department of Agri- 

 culture to the graduates of the colleges established for the 

 benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and pledging 

 the earnest support of the Association in carrying out that 

 policy. 



The executive committee was further directed to urge 

 upon the honorable Secretary of Agriculture the desirability 

 of publishing : — 



(a) A second edition of the history and description of ex- 

 periment stations as originally prepared for the Paris 

 Exposition; 



(b) A separate edition of the addresses of President 

 Atherton and Director Jordan; 



(c) The lectures of Dr. Bernard Dyer. 



The second edition of the history of the experiment sta- 

 tions in this country has already been published and dis- 



