PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRI- 
CULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
MINUTES OF THE GENERAL SESSION. 
Morning Session, Tuesday, November 1, 1904. 
The convention was called to order at 10 o'clock a. m., in the banquet room of 
the Hotel Chamberlain, at Des Moines, Iowa, President W. O. Thompson, of Ohio, 
in the chair. 
Prayer was offered by J. Chalmers, of South Dakota. 
On motion the following persons were voted the privileges of the convention 
under the clause of the constitution which provides that " delegates from other 
institutions engaged in educational or experimental work in the interest of agri- 
culture or mechanic arts may, by a majority vote, be admitted to conventions of 
the association, with all privileges except the right to vote :" N. S. Mayo. Central 
Experiment Station, Cuba ; H. Hayward, Mount Hermon Institute, Massachu- 
setts ; G. G. Hedgcock, Missouri Botanical Garden; L. W. Watkins, Michigan 
Board of Agriculture ; W. V. Cox, secretary Government Board Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition. 
Resolution Relating to Association of State Universities. 
II. C. White, of Georgia, on behalf of the executive committee, offered the fol- 
lowing resolution, and asked immediate action : 
Resolved, That the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 
ment Stations extend to the National Association of State Universities, now in 
session in this city, a most cordial greeting in recognition of common and mutual 
endeavors in the cause of learning, and in assurance of fraternal admiration and 
esteem. 
Resolved, second, That members of the Association of State Universities be 
invited to seats on the floor during this convention. 
The resolution was adopted, and the secretary was directed to transmit it at 
once. 
Report of the Executive Committee. 
The report of the executive committee was presented by H. C. "White, of 
Georgia, chairman, as follows : 
Your executive committee, appointed at the seventeenth annual convention 
of the association, held in Washington, D. C, November 17-19, 1903, met imme- 
diately upon adjournment of the convention, and organized by the selection of 
President H. C. White, of Georgia, as chairman. Acting under instructions of 
the committee, the chairman issued and posted to each member of the associa- 
tion, under date of December 15, 1903, an abstract memorandum of the proceed- 
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