(g) An advisory board is suggested consisting of members ap- 

 pointed by the Secretary of Agriculture and by the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations respectively, 

 which shall confer with the Secretary of Agriculture regarding the 

 mutual interests of the Department and the Stations and shall consider 

 the promotion of agricultural investigation in general. 



(lo) As supplementary to the foregoing recommendations, it may 

 not be out of place to add a suggestion upon the important subject of 

 the publication of the results of investigation. 



The contributions that the Department of Agriculture and the 

 Experiment Stations are now making to scientific knowledge are 

 widely scattered in special reports and bulletins of the Department 

 and Stations. In this way these contributions are not easily consulted 

 and are not as available to the scientific world as though they appeared 

 in some single recognized medium. It seems that there should be some 

 central publication in which the results of real investigation should 

 appear after passing through the hands of a competent board of 

 editors. This would be convenient not only to scientific men in the 

 United States but also to those in other countries. Our work would 

 receive a fuller and more intelligent appreciation under some such 

 scheme of publication. Your Commission is unable to make recom- 

 mendations as to details but suggests that a subsidized journal might 

 be issued or an arrangement made with some existing journal. The 

 board of publication, having full authority to criticise and reject or 

 accept contributions, should be one authorized by the Department and 

 Experiment Stations. Such a scheme of centralizing scientific pro- 

 ductions obviously should not interfere with, or limit, the present 

 method of distributing information through reports and bulletins. 



(Signed) David Starr Jordan, 



Carroll Davidson Wright, 

 November, 1908 Henry Prentiss Armsby, 



Whitman Howard Jordan, 



GiFFORD PiNCHOT. 



[Signed by Mr. Pinchot subject to exceptions noted on attached 

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