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of Kentucky, reported in the general session 

 that much progress is being made in the 

 specialization of the work of the station 

 entomologists, in instruction in entomology 

 in colleges, and in the improvement of 

 facilities for research and instruction in this 

 branch. There is a marked increase in 

 recent years in the amount of inspection 

 work required of station entomologists, 

 and problems relating to the organization 

 and management of this work require very 

 careful thought and attention. Uniformity 

 of inspection laws was advocated. It was 

 shown that inspection had already caused 

 much greater carefulness among nursery- 

 men, thus removing one of the main causes 

 of the dissemination of injurious pests. 



In the section on college work. President 

 J. K. Patterson, of the Kentucky Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College, made a strong 

 appeal for more instruction in mechanic 

 arts in the land-grant colleges. 



The Committee on the Collective Experi- 

 ment Station Exhibit at the Paris Exposi- 

 tion made its final report through its chair- 

 man. Dr. H. P. Armsby, of Pennsylvania. 

 This showed that the exhibit had been very 

 successful in attracting the attention of in- 

 vestigators and government officials of dif- 

 ferent countries. The Association was 

 awarded a grand prize for the exhibit as a 

 whole, and collaborators were recognized 

 by the award of a grand prize to Dr. A. C. 

 True, Director of the OfRce of Experiment 

 Stations ; gold medals to Professors E. "W. 

 Hilgard, W. O. Atwater, C. F. Vanderford, 

 T. B. Osborne, W. H. Jordan, W. H. 

 Evans, L. G. Carpenter and W. A. Henry ; 

 and silver medals to Professors Elwood 

 Mead, Milton Whitney, C. P. Curtiss, P. 

 H. Mell and Paul Schweitzer. Dr. S. M. 

 Babcock was also given a grand prize in 

 recognition of his successful scientific work 

 on behalf of dairy husbandry. 



The Committee on Graduate Study at 

 Washington made the following recommen- 



dations which were adopted by the Asso- 

 ciation : 



' ' In view of the improbability that the 

 Smithsonian Institution will adopt the sug- 

 gestions of this Association regarding the 

 organization of a Bureau of Graduate Study, 

 your committee recommends that the As- 

 sociation take no further action in this di- 

 rection. 



" The Committee also believes that for the 

 present further advantage should be taken 

 of the foundation already successfully laid 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture, and it 

 therefore recommends that the Association 

 express its appreciation of the practical 

 efforts which he has made on behalf of this 

 movement, and ask him to consider the 

 practicability of enlarging the present plan 

 for graduate study in that department, and, 

 if he deems it wise, to invite the cooperation 

 of other departments of the Government, 

 in order that wider opportunities may be 

 open to the graduates of the institutions 

 represented in this Association, as well as 

 of other institutions, to engage in graduate 

 study and research in connection with the 

 work of the national Government." 



One of the most important subjects on 

 which the Association took action at this 

 meeting was the report of the Committee 

 on Cooperative AVork between the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and the Experiment 

 Stations. This was carefully prepared by 

 a thoroughly representative committee after 

 consultation with the directors of the sta- 

 tions and was unanimously adopted by the 

 Association. It commended the attitude of 

 the present Secretary of Agriculture toward 

 closer cooperation between the Department 

 and the stations and pointed out the differ- 

 ent ways in which the two institutions 

 might aid each other. It also attempted to 

 define the principles on which the joint 

 work should be arranged and conducted and 

 stated these in the following language : 



" Your Committee would deem it desir- 



