310 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station and the acceptance 

 of the same by the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. This legislation became operative by the approval 

 of the governor, Feb. 15, 1895. 



On April 15, 1895, the Massachusetts Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, at a meeting legally called for that pur- 

 pose, authorized the consolidation, and on the following 

 day, April 16, the trustees of the college accepted the 

 transfer of the property of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, and the consolidation was complete. 



The trustees proceeded at once to adopt a plan of organ- 

 ization for the new station, under the name of the Hatch 

 Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. The plan adopted provided that the experiment 

 station should form the experiment department of the 

 college, and be under the direction of a committee of the 

 trustees, and that the director should be elected annually. 

 It was also provided that eight divisions of the experiment 

 department should be established, — agriculture, horticult- 

 ure, botany, chemistry, entomology, stock feeding, veteri- 

 nary and meteorology, each under a responsible head, who 

 should be amenable to the director for the faithful perform- 

 ance of the work of his division. 



It was provided that the treasurer of the college shall 

 " receive and have the custody of the money appropriated 

 from time to time by the Congress of the' United States or 

 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and any and all money 

 appropriated or donated at any time for the purposes of the 

 experiment station ; and he shall keep all such money in 

 separate fund account, and shall pay out the same upon 

 warrants signed by the director of the station and approved 

 by the president of the college." 



The committee of the trustees under whose direction the 

 experiment department was placed was composed of the 

 following-named gentlemen: Wm. R. Sessions, Charles 

 A. Gleason, Elijah W. Wood, Wm. Wheeler and James 

 Draper. Dr. II. II. Goodell was elected director of the sta- 

 tion ; Dr. Chas. A. Goessmann was elected honorary director ; 

 Prof. Wm. P. Brooks was appointed head of the division 



