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ill charge of Dr. W. IT. Evans, of the ofliec of 

 experiment stations. 



Gold medals were awarded to the sections 

 of animal husbandry (2), in charge of Dr. 

 H. P. Armsby, of Pennsylvania, and Pro- 

 fessor Thomas F. Hunt, of New York; of 

 fertilizers, in charge of Dr. E. B. Voorhees, 

 of New Jersey; of plant pathology, in charge 

 of Mr. P. C. Stewart, of New York; of rural 

 engineering, in charge of Dr. Elwood Mead, 

 of the office of experiment stations; and of 

 veterinary medicine, in charge of Dr. D. S. 

 White, of Ohio; and to the soils laboratory, in 

 charge of Professor M. P. Miller, of Ohio. 



Awards of silver medals were made to the 

 section of biological sciences, in charge of Dr. 

 G. E. Stone, of Massachusetts, and that illus- 

 trating the inspection work of the stations, in 

 charge of Director M. A. Scovell, of Ken- 

 tucky; and bronze medals to the sections of 

 home economics, in charge of Miss Maude 

 Gilchrist, of Michigan, and of rural economy, 

 in charge of Professor P. W. Card, of Rhode 

 Island. 



Awards were also made to institutions rep- 

 resented in the exhibit as follows: Grand 

 prizes to the Alabama, Connecticut State, 

 Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri (2) 

 New York State, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin 

 experiment stations ; to the agricultural col- 

 leges of Missouri and Wisconsin universities ; 

 to the College of Mining, University of Cali- 

 fornia; to the bureau of education, and to the 

 office of experiment stations, Department of 

 Agriculture. Gold medals to the Arizona, Cali- 

 fornia, Connecticut State, Connecticut Storrs, 

 Maine, New Jersey, New York State (3), Ten- 

 nessee, Washington and Wyoming (2) Experi- 

 ment Stations; to the Colleges of Agriculture 

 at Cornell University, the universities of Illi- 

 nois, of Minnesota, of Missouri and of Ohio, 

 and Purdue University; the agricultural col- 

 leges of Michigan, North Dakota, Texas, Utah 

 and Virginia; to the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology and the engineering depart- 

 ments of the Mississippi, New Mexico and 

 South Carolina Agricultural Colleges, and the 

 Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. 

 Silver medals were awarded to the Arkansas, 



Connecticut vState, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, 

 New Jersey, New Mexico, New York Cornell, 

 North Carolina, Utah, Vermont (2) and Wis- 

 consin (2) Experiment Stations; to Hampton 

 Normal and Agricultural Institute; the Kan- 

 sas (2), Michigan, Rhode Island and Utah 

 agricultural colleges ; and the agricultural col- 

 leges at the Universities of Maine, Minnesota, 

 Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin; the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, mining de- 

 partment of Nevada State University, depart- 

 ment of architecture of Cornell University, 

 Sibley College of Cornell University and Penn- 

 sylvania State College. And awards of bronze 

 medals were made to the Connecticut state, 

 Connecticut Storrs, Florida, Hawaii, Ken- 

 tucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New York state 

 (2) and Pennsylvania experiment stations, 

 and the office of experiment stations ; to the 

 agricultural colleges of South Carolina (2), 

 Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan and 

 Oregon; the agricultural colleges connected 

 with Cornell University, and the universities 

 of Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne- 

 braska, Ohio (2), Purdue (2), Wisconsin and 

 Wyoming; to the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, and the engineering department 

 of the University of Tennessee. 



The exhibit was made with a special appro- 

 priation from congress of $100,000, which was 

 expended under the general supervision of the 

 government board. Its preparation was in 

 charge of a committee appointed by the Asso- 

 ciation of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations, to whose labors, 

 supported by the generous collaboration of the 

 colleges and stations, its success was due. It 

 was by far the most comprehensive and typical 

 exposition of the work of instruction and 

 research at these institutions which has ever 

 been brought together, and its location in the 

 Palace of Education secured for the agricul- 

 tural departments of the colleges and the 

 experiment s'tations a recognition of their 

 place among the great educational eiiorts of 

 the nation. It impressed itself upon intel- 

 ligent observers as a worthy and consistent ex- 

 liosition of certain features of education and 



