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far indexed are Annates de la Science Agronoralqne, 1SS4-1903, Landwirth- 
Bchaftliche Jabrbilcher, L872-1902, and Die Landwirthschaftllcben Versuehssta- 
tionen, L859 1902. 
Any number of copies of each card can be purchased as desired. Arrange- 
ments have been made with the Library <>f Congress for the printing and sale <»f 
these cards, but the indexing and proof reading are done in the Library of the 
Department Circulars of Information concern lug this work were widely dis- 
tributed last March to libraries, institutions, and to individuals interested in 
agriculture and related sciences. The result is a list of subscribers which war- 
rants beginning the work, and it is hoped that the list will be greatly increased 
after the cards which are ready for distribution have been examined. 
The publication of the card index for Department publications has been con- 
tinued during the past year, as usual, and now numbers 7,483 cards in each set. 
Libraries and institutions throughout the country continue to apply for the 
cards, and frequent letters of appreciation of their usefulness are received. 
The general index to the first 12 volumes of the Experiment Station Record 
and Experiment Station Bulletin No. 2 is a subject index which makes a volume 
of 671 pages. 
"The index contains about 125,000 entries, arranged under nearly 5-"3,000 
divisions and subheads. It covers all of the experiment station and Department 
imbrications received for abstracting up to the beginning of January, 1901, and 
nearly all of the foreign literature up to that time It therefore brings the 
index of this literature practically down to the close of the year 1000; and, as 
it dates from the beginning of the experiment stations under the Hatch Act, it 
covers a period of the greatest activity in the development of agricultural 
science." The preparation of this index involved a vast amount of painstaking 
and tedious labor on the part of the editor of the Experiment Station Record 
and his associates, and its successful completion is a very considerable achieve- 
ment. 
The importance of this great work to students, teachers, and investigators is 
very great. The demand for it has already exhausted the first edition of 1,000 
copies, and a second edition is being printed. 
The card index of experiment station literature issued by the Office of Experi- 
ment Stations has now reached 25,600. 
A list of publications of the Agriculture Department 1S62-1902 with analytical 
index (pages G2.3) has been published by the Superintendent of Documents, 
Government Printing Olfice. 
A. C. True. 
J. A. Clark. 
E. Davenport. 
W. M. Hays. 
Mr. Hays. It is my private opinion, not a part of the committee's report, that 
this association ought to take some active steps through its executive committee 
to push matters both as to preparation of the cards and as to their publication 
by the Library of Congress. 
The report of the committee was accepted. 
The convention adjourned to meet at 8 o'clock p. in. 
Evening Session, Tuesday. November 1, 1004. 
The convention was called to order by J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi, the second 
vice-president. 
President W. O. Thompson was introduced, and delivered the annual presi- 
dential address, as follows: 
Annual Address of the President of the Association —Some Problems in 
the Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 
1. I propose for our consideration this evening a very plain and I trust a 
very practical theme, upon which I desire to offer a few remarks suggested by 
my own experience and observation. No effort will be made to discuss in any 
theoretical way the many interesting questions that pertain to education, but 
