live Committee shall determine." There shall be permanent 

 Committees on agriculture, on botany, on chemistry, on ento- 

 mology, and on horticulture; and the Executive Committee, 

 upon request of any five institutions represented in the Association 

 shall provide for the organization of a new Committee at any 

 Convention. " 



In the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention, held at 

 the University of Illinois, November 11-13, 1890, the Constitution 

 appears with the paragraph on permanent Committees amended 

 with the title " permanent Committees" changed to " Sections" 

 with appropriate changes in the phraseology and a section on 

 " College work" is added. 



In the Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Convention, held at 

 New Orleans, November 15-19, 1892, the Constitution appears 

 with amendments as follows: 



1. The Association shall be organized into sections upon (1) 

 College work; (2) Agriculture and Chemistry; (3) Horticulture 

 and Botany; (4) Entomology; (5) Mechanic Arts. The Executive 

 Committee shall, upon the request of any ten institutions rep- 

 resented in the Association, provide for the organization of 

 provisional sections at any convention. 



2. Each section shall conduct its own proceedings and shall 

 keep record of the same, and present a synopsis thereof to the 

 Association at the close of every Convention; and no action of a 

 section, by resolution or otherwise, shall be valid until the same 

 shall have been ratified by the Association in general session. 



It would interest members of the Convention to read the 

 debate on the amendment introduced by the President, J. K. 

 Patterson, of Kentucky, providing for a section on Mechanic 

 Arts, inasmuch as a separate Association was then under dis- 

 cussion. See Proceedings of the Sixth Convention, page 74. 



In accordance with the above amendment to the Constitution, 

 the first annual meeting of the section on Mechanic Arts was 

 held with the Association at Chicago, in October, 1893. In the 

 Proceedings of the Association for the meeting at Denver, Colo- 

 rado, July 16-18, 1895, page 18, there appears the following report 

 from the section on Mechanic Arts : 



11 During the past year an effort has been made to develop, 

 practically, but one side of the Section on Mechanic Arts, viz., 

 the correlation of mechanic arts and agriculture. 



