PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD AND BREED HOOK 7 



sections, and the various markings found in the plumage of the 

 different varieties. 



The Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Annual Meetings 

 merely ratified the action of the Thirty-seventh in expressing a 

 determination to publish Breed Standards after the publication 

 of the 1915 Revision of the Standard of Perfection, which was 

 not effected until the Fortieth Annual Meeting at San Francisco, 

 November, 1915. 



By the action of the Association at this meeting, the Breed 

 Standards were put into the hands of the Standing Standard 

 Committee, and by the terms of the same resolution, this com- 

 mittee was empowered to employ artists, clerks, editors, etc., to 

 proceed with the work, the expense of which was to be met by 

 an approprition of the Association of $2,000. 



A Breed Standard Committee was appointed at the San 

 Francisco meeting, consisting of 



Grant M. Curtis 

 E. E. Richards 

 Arthur C. Smith 

 W. S. Russell 

 W. R. Graham 



This Committee held a meeting at San Francisco immediately 

 after the adjournment of the Convention and another was held 

 later at Buffalo, New York. 



This meeting, in April, 1916, was attended by Messrs. Curtis 

 and Smith for the committee, the late Secretary Campbell repre- 

 senting President Richards, Artists Sewell and Schilling, and a 

 few members of the Association who were called for consulta- 

 tion. At this meeting the text and illustrations for the breed 

 Standards were outlined in detail and a complete table of con- 

 tents adopted, work upon which immediately began. Many of 

 these illustrations were exhibited at the Forty-first Annual Meet- 

 ing at Cleveland, Ohio. The meeting received the report of the 

 committee and an appropriation to complete this work and pub- 

 lish 3,000 copies was voted by the Association. 



Later, the personnel of this committee was somewhat changed 

 by the resignations of Messrs. Curtis and Graham and the 

 appointments of Messrs. H. A. Nourse and T. F. McGrew. 



