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tributed. The lectures of Dr. Dyer have been approved 

 and will shortly be issued, but in regard to the ad- 

 dresses of President Atherton and Director Jordan it was 

 thought wiser to publish separates from the account of the 

 proceedings of the convention than to ask for a separate 

 edition. 



The question of constituting all land-grant colleges 

 designated depositories of government publications has 

 continued through the past year to claim the attention 

 of your committee. Taking advantage of the fact that a bill 

 to amend the act regulating the public printing and distri- 

 bution of public documents was then being considered, it 

 succeeded in having an additional section incorporated, 

 including all the colleges among the number of designated 

 depositories. The bill, however, failed of being called up, 

 and the section shared the fate of the bill, dying with the 

 last Congress. It seems unwise to introduce this into 

 Congress as a special bill, and it is recommended that the 

 new executive committee keep in touch with the printing 

 committee and see that a section providing for our inter- 

 ests is inserted in the amended bill. 



The executive committee has considered the summer 

 school of graduate instruction in agriculture, suggested by 

 the Ohio State University, and the offer of the university 

 to assume responsibility for the expense of the first session. 

 The committee recommends that the convention approve 

 the holding of a session during the summer of 1902, to be 

 under the control of the president of the said university, 

 with the expectation of adopting the school as a cooperative 

 enterprise, under the control of the convention, should the 

 success of the first session seem to justify the continuance 



