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Evening Session, Tuesday, Novembeb IT. L903. 
The convention was called to order at 8 o'clock p. m'., \\ . E. Stone, of Indiana, in 
the chair. 
V \< \ \< ii b on Standing ( <>\i mm bbs. 
The recomniendation of the executive committee thai "the vacancies which may 
arise in the membership of standing committees by death, resignation, or separation 
from the association, of members, shall be filled by the committees, respectively," 
was agreed to, and thus becomes a standing order. 
Report of the Committee on Graduate Sti d^ a t Washington. 
0. Northrop, of Minnesota (chairman), read the report, as follows: 
Owing to the com lit ions growing out of the refusal of the regents of the Smithson- 
ian Institution to accept the propositions made by this association regarding the 
organization of a bureau of graduate study, and the events which resulted in the 
endowment and organization of the Carnegie Institution, it has uot seemed best for 
this committee to take any active measures during the past year. It now appears, 
however, that the Carnegie Institution will for some time to come devote itself 
mainly to the endowment of researches on a comparatively large scale, which are to 
be carried on in different countries and in connection with a great variety of institu- 
tions. It does not seem to he the intention of the Carnegie Institution to make any 
special provision for students to pursue graduate studies at Washington in connec- 
tion with the different branches of the National ( rovernment. 
The way is therefore open fortius association to continue its effort to provide some 
agency which will enable the students graduating from the institutions included in 
the association to take advantage of the facilities which are now, or may hereafter 
be, placed at their disposal in the Government departments. Your committee 
believes that work along this line may be profitably pursued in connection with other 
enterprises which the association may have in hand for the promotion of graduate 
study, such as the graduate school of agriculture, and therefore cordially indorses the 
recommendation of the executive committee that a single standing committee of 
graduate study be appointed to take the place of this committee, and any other com- 
mittees of the association charged, with the promotion of graduate study. 
C. Northrop, 
J. E. Stuebs, 
M. II. BUCKHAM, 
A. C. True, 
R. H. Jesse, 
C. W. Dabney, 
W. 0. Thompson, 
( 'ommittee. 
The report was accepted. 
II. C. White, on behalf of the executive committee, and in accordance with the 
report of that committee and of the committee on graduate study at Washington, 
moved that the title of the standing committee on graduate study at Washington be 
changed by the omission of the words "at Washington," so as to constitute a stand- 
ing committee on graduate study, and that the personnel of the committee be not 
changed. 
Jn view of the fact that President Northrop expressed an earnest desire to be 
relieved from further service on this committee his resignation was, on motion of 
II. C. White, "accepted with great regret," and the committee was authorized to till 
the vacancy. 
Address op 'run President op the Association. 
The President pro tempore. I take great pleasure in introducing President .lames 
K. Patterson, of Kentucky, who will deliver the annual address of the president of 
the association. 
Gentlemen op the Association op American Agricultural Colleges ind Experi- 
ment Stations: I thank you for the honor which you have conferred upon me in 
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