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it had an undoubted insecticide effect upon the Colorado Potato-beetle. Mr. Riley 

 stated that recently in France he had seen the Bordeaux mixture used upon a large 

 scale, and that its effect could be distinguished at a distance, as it gave the vines a 

 bluish or glaucous appearance. He stated also that it had been found in France that 

 many insects are destroyed by this mixture. He stated that the discovery of the use 

 of the Bordeaux mixture was an excellent illustration of accidental discovery, since, 

 long before the appearance in France of the Peronospora viticola, vine-growers in the 

 neighborhood of Bordeaux had used the mixture on the outer rows to deter thieves, 

 and when the disease appeared it was found that the vines thus treated were not 

 affected. He stated tehat were he a vine-grower he should certainly mix some other 

 insecticide with the mixture, in order to more surely accomplish two results at once. 

 The meeting then adjourned until 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. 



November 13, 1889. 



The association met at 11 a. m., President Riley in the chair. The minutes of the 

 previous day were read and approved. 



By a special motion it was resolved to omit all personal titles in the minutes. 



Under the head of "new business" it was moved and carried, in obedience to a 

 suggestion that such action was desired, that the association co-operate with the 

 Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations in so far as to meet 

 with them at 4 o'clock and to report progress. 



S. A. Forbes then read a paper entitled "Office and Laboratory Organization." 

 Premising that every laboratory should start with a well-considered and elastic 

 scheme, he described at some length the circumstances of his own work, and his own 

 plan of organization.* In discussing this paper Mr. Riley dwelt upon the subject of 

 simplicity in methods and described the system which he had introduced into the 

 Division of Entomology and the Department of Insects of the National Museum. He 

 believed that, in the case of rapidly accumulating material sent in from all parts of 

 the country, to keep such a record of all accessions and a system of cross-references as 

 described by Mr. Forbes would involve an amount of clerical work hardly justified by 

 the results, and described his methods, particularly in regard to the recording of 

 biologic material. 



Parallel with Mr. Forbes' paper, he discussed methods of keeping and cataloguing 

 letters, newspaper clippings, and books. 



The topic was then announced for discussion, "Where shall we publish descrip- 

 tions of new species and results of non-economic observations? " Mr. Lugger stated 

 that at his station he found it impossible to publish anything in the bulletins which 

 was not of self-evident practical importance, and that he was accumulating a great 

 deal of valuable information which thus could not see light. 



Mr. Bruner stated that a different condition existed at his station, and that he was 

 obliged to publish such observations and even descriptions of new species, but to in- 

 sert them as foot-notes. 



Mr. Riley read a letter from Mr. C. H. Fernald, of Amherst, objecting strongly to 

 the publication of descriptions of new species in bulletins. Mr. Gillette stated that 

 he was obliged to publish descriptions of new species in the bulletins of his station, 

 his director insisting that the results of all the original work done at the station 

 should first see light in its bulletins. Mr. Cook expressed agreement with Mr. Fer- 

 nald's letter and offered the following resolution : 



" Resolved, That it is the opinion of this association that the bulletins of the Exper- 

 iment Stations and Agricultural Colleges should not contain descriptions of new spe- 

 cies." 



The resolution was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Forbes moved that the secretary represent the association at the 2 o'clock meet- 



* This paper appears in full in this number, p. 185. 



