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6. Technical chemistry — Dr. W. H. Walker, professor of industrial chemistry in 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
7. Architecture — Prof. W. II. Lawrence, associate professor of architecture in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
8. Shop practice, drawing, etc.— Prof. F. Paul Anderson, professor of mechanical 
engineering, State College of Kentucky. 
9. Domestic science — Miss Maude Gilchrist, dean of women's department of the 
Michigan Agricultural College. 
10. Ceramics — Prof. Edward Orton, jr., professor and director of department of 
clay working and ceramics; dean of College Qf Engineering, Ohio State University. 
Upon these experts, who have generously consented to devote so much time to 
the preparation of this exhibit, devolves the duty of arranging the minor details of 
the subjects placed under their charge and of securing the necessary objects and 
materials. They are now in correspondence with various institutions, and any 
information relative to the details and material of preparation should be sought of 
the experts having in charge the subjects under consideration. These experts will 
be efficiently and indispensably aided by the Office of Experiment Stations in the 
way of collaborating and assembling parts of the exhibit and in the preparation of 
labels. 
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 
Your committee desires to impress most emphatically upon trie members of this 
association that this is a cooperative exhibit, the responsibility for the success of 
which rests upon the institutions here represented. It is to be a display of your 
work, the materials for which you must to some extent contribute and aid in pre- 
paring. It has at no time been expected that the funds appropriated by Congress 
would be adequate to the payment for all servicesand all materials necessary properly 
to show our methods and progress in education and research. All the money has 
been set aside for the purchase of materials that the situation appears to warrant 
and our deficiencies must be supplemented by the aid of individual colleges and 
stations. 
The loyal and generous way in which so many institutions have so far responded 
to requests for assistance is an encouraging indication that your committee will be 
abundantly supported in carrying this great and laborious undertaking to a triumphant 
conclusion. In all cases full credit will be given to collaborators and preparators and 
to institutions furnishing objects, materials, or data. 
This is most certainly a splendid opportunity for impressing upon educators — both 
at home and abroad — as well as the general public, that the work of the land-grant 
colleges and experiment stations represents one of the great educational efforts of 
modern times— if indeed it is not made evident that it is the chiefest effort of them 
all in its relations to human needs and to the strength and progress of human society. 
We must labor together to make this exhibition of what we are doing attractive, 
dignified, and impressive, and therefore your committee bespeaks your most earnest, 
prompt, and generous cooperation. 
It would not be proper to close this report without recognizing the helpful and 
sympathetic attitude of Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, toward this 
effort of the association, especially in allowing the Office of Experiment Stations to 
supplement in such a large measure the work of your committee. Hon. J. H. Brig- 
bam, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, acting as chairman of the Government Board, 
has also given to the organization of this exhibit every needed attention and aid. 
Respectfully submitted. 
By authority of the committee, W. II. Jordan, Chairman. 
YY. II. Jobdan. Mr. President, it is generally supposed that the chairman of a 
committee does a large part of the work, but I wish to emphasize the fact that in 
this case he has probably done less than anybody else; that the members of the 
committee which I represent have individually and in cooperation done a large 
amount of work in getting this matter into its present condition. It is perhaps unnec- 
essary forme to say that we have found Doctor True, as a member of the committee, 
indispensable as an adviser and as a helper in the relation he sustains. 
The report was accepted and the committee continued. 
