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216 This meeting is called with the approval of the following gentlemen, most of whom expect to be present: T. C. Abbot, President of the Michigan State Agricultural College. Manly Miles, Professor of Practical Agriculture, Michigan Agricultural College. J. M. Gregory, Regent of the Illinois Industrial University. W. C. Flagg, Secretary of the Board of Trustees Illinois Industrial University. W. W. Daniels, Professor of Agriculture University of Wisconsin. A. S. Welch, President Iowa State Agricultural College. Wm. W. Folwell, President University of Minnesota. Joseph Denison, President Kansas State Agricultural College. J. B. Bowman, Regent of Kentucky University. W. S. Clark, President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Wm. H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. Geo. C. Swallow, Professor of Agriculture University of the State of Missouri. Hunter Nicholson, Professor of Agriculture East Tennessee University. Hon. John Carling, Commissioner of Agriculture, Province of Ontario. Prof. Buckland, Toronto University. Hon, Horace Capron, late Commissioner of Agriculture. Andrew D. White, President of Cornell University.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONVENTION.

In accordance with the call of a circular, published throughout the country, the following gentlemen convened in one of the halls in The Prairie Farmer Building, on Thursday, August 24th, 1871, at 10 A. M. :

1. Dr. J. M. Gregory, Champaign, Illinois, Regent of the Illinois Industrial University. 2. Dr. Manly Miles, Lansing, Michigan, Professor of Practical Agriculture Michigan Agricultural College. 3. Dr. Joseph Denison, Manhattan, Kansas, President Kansas Agricultural College. 4. D. C. Gilman, New Haven, Connecticut, Professor of Physical Geography and History Sheffield Scientific School. 6. Professor A. K Prentiss, Ithaca, New York, Chair of Botany and Horticulture Cornell University. 6. John Hamilton, Agricultural College P. 0., Pennsylvania, Professor of Agriculture Pennsylvania Agricultural College. 7. E, W. Hilgard, Oxford, Mississippi, Professor of Chemistry University of Mississippi. 8. G. C. Swallow, Columbia, Missouri, Professor of Agriculture University of Missouri. 9. Dr. E. S. Hull, Alton, Illinois, Lecturer on Yegetable Physiology and Fruit Growing Illinois Industrial University.