
EvLeventH ANnNuAL Report 
; OF THE 
Board of Control of the New York State Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station. 
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
Since our last report your committee have held their regular 
monthly meetings at the station, often with other members of the 
board being present during our deliberations. - : 
At these monthly meetings the director has submitted a state- 
ment from each member of the staff, giving in detail the work 
which has been carried forward by each during the month previous 
to this meeting, and the treasurer.at such monthly meetings has 
furnished a statement of the expenditures and balances remaining 
_ of the several appropriations for the station, general and special, 
_ by which means your committee have been able to keep fully 
- informed of the nature and progress of the work being done in the 
_ several lines at the station, as also of its financial condition from 
month to month. 
Your committee have to report the following work in the line of 
permanent improvements, as having been accomplished during the 
_ past year, for several of which, in accordance with their recom- 
- mendations, the Legislature at its last session made special pro- 
m 1. The two basement laboratories in the wings of the new 
_ chemical laboratory have been completed substantially uniform in 
: _ style and finish with the remainder of the building, thus bringing 
all the chemical work of the station, a portion of which had pre- 
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| i viously been done in the village, into one building, and providing 



