The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-16
THE CLOSING SESSION.
AGRICULTURISTS MET LAST NIGHT
IN NEW HAVEN HOUSE.

Officers Elected for the Ensuing Year
DIR. Bernard Dyer Told of the WOrlt nj
Rothamsted, England-Twenty-si
College Presidents at the Convention
List of the Delegates.
The closing meeting of the fourteenth
annual convention of the Association
of American Agricultural Colleges and
Experiment stations, was held in the
parlor of the New Haven house last
evening. 1t was largely OF a social ma
ture. giving the members of the society
and the various delegations a chance
to get better acquainted and to talk
over matters of a lighter nature than
the deep scientific papers read before
them
The meeting of the convention in
New Haven this year was particularly
appropriate. because the first expert
ment station in the United States was
opened here In Connecticut twenty-five
years ago. There were represented
presidents from twenty-six colleges
and universities, many of them being
from various state colleges throughout
the country. At the meeting last even
ing officers for the sections were elected
as follows:
For the section of mechanic arts,
President Fl. w. Tyler, Institute of
Technology, Massachusetts,; secretary,
F.. Paul Anderson, Kentucky.
Agriculture and chemistry - Presi-
dent Charles D. Woods of Maine; sec
rotary, L. C. Carpenter of Colorado.
Botany and horticultural. r. Jones
of Vermont; secretary, N. j. Green of
Ohio
College seotion-President Raymond
of West Virginia. secretary, President
! Aylesworth of Colorado.
Entomology President, Professor.
Slingeland of New York; secretary,
Professor Morgan of Massachusetts,,
DR.. Atwater was chairman of the
committee on resolutions. Several res
olutions were offered, one on the life
work of Sir John Bennett Graves, Bart,
LII. D., r. r. S., especially in relation
to his services In maintaining and pro-
viding for the permanent establishment
of the first and greatest experiment
station in the British empire, at Roth
amsted, England
Yesterday afternoon DR.. Bernard
Dyer of London, Eng, representing
the great experiment station at Roth
ansted delivered an address to the
convention. Professor Brewer of Yale
forty years ago visited this station on
his first trip to England, and is espec-
tally interested in its work. Once in
five years DR.. Dyer is delegated to
America to explain the progress of the
work at the station. From here he will
visit other agricultural colleges
throughout the country.
During the morning hours the con-
vention received reports from the sew
eral committees appointed by the diff
ferent sections, on agriculture and
chemistry one on entomology, another
on mechanic arts, and on college work
also horticulture and botany
number of sections of the consti-
tuition were also amended, and numer-
Gus other matters discussed that were
not CT interest outside the associations.
The officers elected for the ensuing
year are:
President, Professor A. w. Harris of
Orono, Me-; vice presidents, James N.
Paterson of Lexington. KY, w. Fl.
Jordan of Geneva, N. Y, Professor L.
G. Carpenter Of Fort Collins. Col. Pro- /
fessor A. r.. Bryan of Pullman, Wash.
r. Fl. jessie of Missouri
Executive ommittee-Professo H.
Fl. Goodell of the Massachusetts, Agri-
cultural college, Amherst, Mass; Pres !
ident Joseph e. Stubs of the Nevada
State college, Reno. New; Alexis Cope.
Columbus. o.; George w. Atherton of
State college, Pennsylvania, and III. G. i
White of Athens. Ga.
The photographer elected is Profess
sor A. c. True of Washington, d. c..
and the secretary and treasurer. Pro-
fessor e. r. Voorhees, of Rutgers col
lege, New Brunswick, N. j.
The full list of the delegates and Wis
itors follows:
Joseph f Stubs, president Nevada,
State university
Henry III. Goodell, president Massa-
chusetts Agricultural college.
Fl. p. Armsby, director Pennsylvania
experiment station.
AieHiS cope, secretary ONO State
university
j. ii. Washburn, president Rhode
Island Agricultural college.
William NJ Liggett, dean Minnesota
College of Agriculture.
w. Q. Thompson, president Ohio
State university
j. L. Hills, director Vermont expert
ment station.
James Withycombe, vice-director Ore
son experiment station
l.. H. Merrill, chemist, Maine expert
ment station.
H. W. Tyler, Massachusetts Institute
Of Technology.
w. c. Sturgis, botanist, Connecticut
Agricultural experiment station.