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adoption, such scheme to contain details as to time allotted, as to the classes taking 
the work, and as to the methods of instruction; it hein«z understood that the recom- 
mendation is to be in no wise mandatory on any given college. 
Plans for New Buildings, Department of Agriculture. 
B. T. Galloway, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the V. S. Department of 
Agriculture, briefly explained the tentative plans and specifications of the proposed 
new buildings of the Department of Agriculture. 
Organization of Section on College "Work and Administration. 
W. E. Stone, of Indiana. Mr. President, the newly organized section on college 
work and administration held a preliminary meeting yesterday afternoon and 
appointed its permanent officers and also selected three members of the executive 
committee of the association, as provided for in the newly revised constitution. The 
officers of the section for the ensuing year are as follows: 
Chairman, W. E. Stone, of Indiana; secretary, G. E. Fellows, of Maine. 
The section also appointed as a committee to have charge of the programme for the 
next year, the chairman, the secretary, and one member of the section — Professor 
Tyler, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The three appointments for 
members of the executive committee of the association are President H. C. White, of 
Georgia; President G. W. Atherton, of Pennsylvania; and President J. L. Snyder, 
of Michigan. 
Organization of Section on Experiment Station Work. 
H. P. Armsby, of Pennsylvania, reported the organization of the section on experi- 
ment station work, with officers as follows: 
Chairman, E. H. Jenkins, of Connecticut; secretary, M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky. 
Members of the executive committee: W. H. Jordan, of New York; C. F. Curtiss, 
of Iowa. Committee on programme: J. H. Shepperd, of Xorth Dakota; B. W. Kilgore, 
of Xorth Carolina; M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky (see also p. 192). 
The reports of the organization of the two sections were received and ordered to be 
placed on file. 
Election of Officers. 
On nomination of W. D. Gibbs, of Xew Hampshire, seconded by C. F. Curtiss, of 
Iowa, W. O. Thompson, of Ohio, was unanimously elected president of the associa- 
tion for the ensuing year. 
By vote of the association the rules were suspended and the secretary was instructed 
to cast the ballot of the convention for other officers, who were declared elected, as 
follows: 
First vice-president, D. F. Houston, of Texas, nominated by W. A. Henry, of 
Wisconsin; second vice-president, J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi, nominated by W. M. 
Liggett: third vice-president, J. H. Worst, of Xorth Dakota, nominated by T. E. 
Miller, of South Carolina; fourth vice-president, H. J. Wheeler, of Rhode Island, 
nominated by H. P. Armsby. of Pennsylvania; fifth vice-president, B. C. Buffum, of 
Wyoming, nominated by B. W. Kilgore, of Xorth Carolina; secretary and treasurer, 
E. B. Voorhees, of Xew Jersey, nominated by J. L. Snyder, of Michigan; bibliog- 
rapher, A. C. True, of the Office of Experiment Stations, nominated by H. P. Armsby. 
Place of Xext Meeting of Convention. 
An invitation to hold the next convention at Portland, Oreg., was received and 
referred to the executive committee. 
