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best laid so as to give promise of making the Department an acceptable 

 and efficient agency for the promotion of the general interests of the 

 institutes throughout the country. 



EXHIBITS AT EXPOSITIONS. 



The collective experiment station exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 

 1900, made under the general supervision of a committee of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations 

 working in cooperation with this Office, was described in my report 

 for 1900. At the close of the exposition this exhibit was packed for 

 shipment under the supervision of Mr. J. I. Schulte of this Office and 

 it arrived in this country in good condition. It was then transferred 

 to Buffalo and with some additions was installed at the Pan-American 

 Exposition. 



Owing to the limited amount of space in the Government building 

 available for the exhibits of this Department, only that portion of the 

 experiment station exhibit which illustrated functions of this Office 

 was installed in the Government building. By the courtesy of the 

 general officers of the Pan-American Exposition, the remainder of the 

 station exhibit was placed in the agricultural building, where it was 

 located in immediate conjunction with the exhibits made by the New 

 York State and Tennessee experiment stations. In this way the dif- 

 ferent functions of our experiment stations were more fully illus- 

 trated. A portion of the exhibit has since been transferred to Charles- 

 ton, S. C, and installed at the South Carolina Interstate and West 

 Indian Exposition now in progress in that city. Dr. C. F. Langwor- 

 thy has represented this Office at the Buffalo and Charleston exposi- 

 tions. 



At the recent meeting of the Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations it was decided to undertake the 

 preparation of a collective exhibit of the agricultural colleges and ex- 

 periment stations at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held in 

 St. Louis in 1903. The committee appointed to take charge of this 

 exhibit is as follows: W. H. Jordan, director of the New York State 

 Experiment Station; W. M. Hays, professor of agriculture, Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota; H. J. Waters, director of the Missouri Experiment 

 Station; C. F. Curtiss, director of the Iowa Experiment Station, and 

 the Director of this Office. 



THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND STATIONS. 



The Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations held its fifteenth annual convention at Washington, D. C, 

 November 12-14, 1901. The attendance was unusually large, and a 

 considerable number of important matters relating to the general 



