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CONTENTS

I. Descent and Eaklt Manhood (i827-i857) 1

II. First Yeabs in America (1857-1868) 18

III. The Call to Amherst (1868-1888) 28

IV. Investigations at the College 44
V. The Experiment Station 70

VT. Later Years 97

Letters op Fhiedrich Wohleb 109

Appendix 187

Abbreviations of Foreign Publications 139

List of Pubushed Writings 141

Notices of Charles A. Goessmann 178

Chronology 175

Index 181

ILLUSTRATIONS

Charles A. Goessuann, about 1895 {'photogravure) Frontispiece

Fritzlab from the West 4

Gottingen from the East 6

Wohler's Laboratory in Goessbiann's Tibie 10

W5hler and his Advanced Stitdents, ism 14

In the Syracuse Laboratory 24

Charles A. Goessmann, about 1875 SO

The Experiment Station 70

Priedrich Wohler 110

A Letter of Friedrich Wohlsb (Jacaimile) 130

CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

CHAPTER I

DESCENT AND EARLY MANHOOD
1827-1857

Charles Anthony Goessmann, the eminent chem-
ist, the broad-minded student of Nature, the lovable
man, ended his life of unceasing and fruitful work on
the 1st of September 1910, in the eighty-fourth year
of his age.

He was one of the notable group of European scien-
tists who, some three generations ago, found a home in
the United States. Conspicuous among these were
Engelmann the botanist, Agassiz the naturalist. Pour-
tales the zoologist, Guyot the geologist and physi-
ographer, Lesquereux the palaeobotanist and bryolo-
gist, Genth the mineralogist, and Goessmann the
chemist.

The Goessmanns, it is said, came originally from
Spain, where the name was spelled Guzman. About
1520 they passed into Germany, in the train of the
Emperor Charles V, and became seated in Hesse. They
were land-owners from the first, and not a few entered
the Church and the army. The branch from which
Dr. Goessmann sprang had long been settled in the
ancient town of Fulda, the seat of a famous monastery
founded by Boniface, the apostle of Germany, and
selected by him as the place of his burial. Joseph

2 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

Goessmann of Fnlda and later of Fritzlar, grandfather
of Charles Anthony, was a judge of the higher court
of Electoral Hesse, lay administrator of the diocese of
Fulda, and a man of much influence in his day. He
was on intimate terms of friendship with Georg Fried-
rich Heinrich, reigning Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont,
great-grandfather of the present Queen of Holland,
and the little summer-house in his garden at Fritzlar,
where the Prince and he played their weekly game of
chess and drank their coffee, may still be seen.

The wife of Judge Goessmann was Fraulein Kaiser,
a woman of rare mental vigour and brilliancy. Of her
three brothers, one established the chair of social law
(now political economy) at the University of Graz;
another became vicar-general of the diocese of Fulda;
and a third was an officer in the imperial army. The
latter, wounded at the battle of Wagram, was raised
by the Emperor to honorary life-membership in the
Noble Imperial Guard of Austria as a reward for singu-
lar bravery and courage. The three daughters of Judge
Goessmann were known to their contemporaries as the
'three beautiful sisters.' Two of them became ladies-
in-waiting at the court of the Electoral Princess of
Hesse-Cassel, and married respectively Baron von
Mumm and Baron von Borke, officers in the German
army.

Heinrich Goessmann, son of Joseph and father of
Charles Anthony, was bom 30 March 1799, at Fritzlar,
Hesse-Cassel, and passed much of his life there. In his
youth, with his elder brother Philip, he served as a
volunteer in the war against Napoleon in 1815. A

DESCENT AND EARLY MANHOOD 3

graduate in medicine of the University of Marburg in
1820, he numbered among his fellow-students Friedrich
Wohler, the celebrated chemist and discoverer of
organic chemical synthesis,^ with whom he formed a
warm and lasting friendship.

From Marburg he proceeded to Wurzburg, where
two years were spent at the University and hospital,
and where he enjoyed the instruction of the Natur-
pkHosoph Ignatius DoUinger, the founder of embry-
ology, teacher of Agassiz and von Baer, and father of
Dr. Johann von Dollinger of Munich, the leader of the
Old Catholics. Dr. Goessmann subsequently became
Kreisphysikus or district physician and health oflBcer
in Hesse-Cassel, and in recognition of his services was
made a medical councillor by Emj>eror William I. In
addition to this distinction the University of Wurzburg
conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of
Medicine. He died at Fritzlar, 22 February 1880.

The life and work of Charles Anthony Goessmann
falls naturally into three well-defined periods. The
first period ended in 1857 with his departure from
Gbttingen; the second, and shortest, terminated in
1868 with the call to Amherst; and the third comprised
his two-score years of service here as Professor in the
College and Director of Research. During the first
period he made his most important researches and dis-
coveries in theoretical chemistry, organic and analy-
tic. The second period was marked by investigations

* "The first sjiithesis of an organic compound, that of urea, achieved
more than a quarter of a century ago by the illustrious Wohler, will, for
simplicity and elegance of the successive reactions employed, ever remain
the model of synthetical processes.' — A. W. Hofmann in 1863.

4 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

in technical and industrial chemistry, particularly in
its relations to the sugar and salt industries. The third
and last period was devoted almost entirely to agri-
cultural chemistry, a branch of chemical science in
which he was a leader in this country.

Karl Anton Goessmann, third and youngest son of
the four children of Geheimer Medizinalrath Dr.
Heinrich Goessmann and Helena Henslinger-Boediger
his wife, was bom on the 13th of June 1827, at Naum-
burg, in the electorate of Hesse-Cassel. Carefully nur-
tured, he received his early training, first in the schools
of his native place and later at the Latin School of
Fritzlar, whither his father had removed while the son
was still a lad of eight or nine, and which henceforth
was the home of his youth and early manhood. There
he passed through the curriculum, his quiet bearing
and studious habits winning him the commendation
and respect of his teachers. Fond of flowers and pets
as a child, he early developed a taste for the natural
sciences, and his spare hours and holidays were largely
spent roaming the fields, woods, and hills in search of
plants, minerals, and other objects of interest. He also
delighted especially in books of travel and adventure.
His education owed more perhaps to his home circle
than to the school. His mother, an excellent woman of
great piety, devoted herself to the culture of her four
children, and had she lived until Anton's manhood,
he might have entered the Church — thus following
the example of his maternal uncle, who was attached
to the Dom of Fritzlar, where the young Goessmann
often served as altar-boy. The * priest-uncle,' as he

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DESCENT AND EARLY MANHOOD 5

was fondly called, was the instructor, mentor, com-
panion, and idol of his kinsfolk.

On leaving school young Goessmann, like Davy,
Liebig, Heinrich Rose, and the French chemist Pelouze,
first became interested in pharmacy. He pursued his
studies with a kinsman at Gudensberg near Cassel, to
whom he had been apprenticed, and in 1846 passed
the state examination required to qualify him as an
assistant in pharmacy. The next four years were passed
as an apothecary's assistant at Gottingen, Mainz, and
Fulda, Goessmann devoting his spare moments to the
pursuit of his favourite studies, chemistry, botany, and
geology. Inheriting, however, a love of science and
wishing to perfect himself yet further in his vocation,
he entered the University of Gottingen at Easter, 27
April 1850, matriculating in the philosophical faculty
as a student of pharmacy. It was natural that in seek-
ing a university he should turn to Gottingen, where
three years earlier he had been assistant to Julius Post,
the University apothecary, and where his father's
friend and fellow-student at Marburg, Friedrich Woh-
ler, then at the height of his fame, filled the chair of
chemistry.

The following letter from Wohler to Kreisphysikics
Dr. Goessmann has fortunately been preserved : —

GbxTiNGEN, 12 April 1850.

Most esteemed Sir and Friend, —

Your lines have recalled to me most vividly the
scenes of my first university year and my associations
with you in old Marburg. Although more than 30

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years have passed, I can see you so plainly that I could
make a sketch of you. I need not assure you that I
shall take care of your son in the best possible manner.
I shall reserve for him the first place that may be
vacant. The lectures and laboratory work are set to
begin as early as the 15th of the month. It can be fore-
seen, however, that as usual only a few students will
be present. Therefore, I, as well as most of my col-
leagues, shall not comimence until Thursday the 18th
of the month.

With great respect,

Your most obedient,

WOHLER.

Here, during the next five semesters, he heard
Wohler, Wiggers, and Staedeler in chemistry, Bartling
and Lantzius-Beninga in botany, Weber, the renowned
physicist and revolutionist, in physics, Sartorius von
Waltershausen in geology and mineralogy, Hausmann
in technology, and Bohtz in the history of German
literature. Thus was laid a broad and sohd foundation
for his future hfe-work.

At the close of the summer semester of 1851 Goess-
mann, it seems, had fully determined to leave Gottin-
gen and follow the calling of a pharmacist. With that
purpose in view he went to take leave of his teacher.
Wohler, discerning in his young friend those endow-
ments and aptitudes of mind which promised success
in the field of science, pointed out the difference be-
tween practical pharmacy and scientific chemistry,
and urged upon him the expediency of abandoning the

DESCENT AND EARLY MANHOOD 7

former and of devoting himself to science. Happily,
the advice was followed, and Goessmann decided to
devote himself henceforth to chemistry. Soon after
this he became chemical assistant to Professor Staede-
ler, who was then lecturing on physiological chemistry.

In March 1852 he passed the examination in phar-
macy before the Electoral Medical College of Hesse-
Cassel, and in Jmie was appointed by Wohler second
assistant in analytical and practical chemistry in the
Chemical Laboratory. During the temporary absence
of Wohler in Switzerland, whither he had gone in
search of health, Goessmann taught his class in phar-
maceutical chemistry. On his return Wohler presented
him with a handsome Swiss watch, which he carried for
more than half a century.

Li the autumn of 1852, during the dekanat of
Geheimer Hofrath Ritter, Goessmann presented a dis-
sertation Ueber die Bestandtheile der Canthariden. This
was his first scientific paper and stamped its author as
an original investigator of marked ability. In Decem-
ber, * after passing,' says Wohler, *a most excellent
examination,' he took his degree as Doctor of Phi-
losophy.

Two years later, in 1854, appeared his HabUitations-
schrift, Verwandlung des ThwMins in Leucin and Bei-
trag zur Kenntniss des Leucins. The results of this
classic research on the constitution and production of
leucin were at once communicated by Wohler to Jean-
Baptiste Dumas, Perpetual Secretary of the French
Academy of Sciences, and published by him in the
Comptes rendus. This important contribution to knowl-

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edge also obtained him the distinction of associate
membership in the Physico-Medical Society of the
University of Erlangen.^

In February of 1855 he was appointed Privatdocent
in the philosophical faculty, with permission to lecture
in all branches of chemistry and pharmacy, and soon
thereafter, on the promotion of his friend and colleague,
Heinrich Limpricht, to a professorship, he succeeded
him as first assistant in the Chemical Institute. From
1852 to 1857 Goessmann lectured on organic chem-
istry, on selected subjects in technical chemistry,
had charge of the instruction in organic and inor-
ganic analysis, and taught pharmacy to the medical
students.

'He acted as my assistant in the laboratory,' writes
Wohler in 1857, 'and in this capacity he has served for
five years to my utmost satisfaction, and has aided me
most eflSciently through his excellent knowledge and
his indefatigable zeal in teaching practical chemistry.'
From Professor Chandler we learn that Wohler en-
trusted to Goessmann his most advanced laboratory
students.

It was during this period that he made his most
important researches and discoveries in organic and
analytic chemistry. The results of these various inves-
tigations — some twenty-four in all — first appeared
in Liebig's Annalen,^ and established his reputation as
a careful, skilful, and productive investigator.

In September 1854 the yearly meeting of the German

* Physikalisch-medicinische Societal zu Erlangen.

' Abstracts of these papers were published in the Annales de Chimie et
de Physique, by Charles Adolphe Wurtz, the eminent French chemist.

DESCENT AND EARLY MANHOOD 9

Naturalists and Physicians was held at Gottingen,*
and Goessmann read a paper, entitled Veher Leucin
und Essigsdure-Aldehyd. Two years later (16-24 Sep-
tember 1856) he attended the meeting at Vienna,
where he saw many noted men of science, including
Anton Schrotter, professor of chemistry in the Royal
and Imperial Polytechnical Institute, perpetual secre-
tary of the Academy of Sciences, and noted for his
researches on phosphorus; Baron von Reichenbach,
the technical chemist and discoverer of paraffin and
creosote; Wilhelm Haidinger, the mineralogist and
physicist, the discoverer of *Haidinger's brushes,' and
director of the Imperial Geological Institute of Austria;
Ley dolt, the mineralogist; von Martins, the celebrated
Brazilian traveller and botanist; Franz von Kobell, the
mineralogist and poet; Vogel, the agricultural chemist;
Schafhautl, the mineralogist and technologist; and
Redtenbacher, the mechanician and director of the
Polytechnic School at Karlsruhe.

During the years 1855 and 1856 Johann Lukas
Schonlein, the eminent pathologist and physician to
Frederick William IV, and the founder of exact mod-
em clinical methods in Germany, had endeavoured to
establish at the Royal Charite Hospital in Berhn a
laboratory for research in physiological and patho-
logical chemistry, and Goessmann was offered the
directorship. Had this project succeeded, it would
have been very gratifying to him, as he wished to de-
vote himself to animal chemistry — a field of inquiry

* The yearly gatherings of the Deutsche Naturforscher und AerzU were
instituted by Lorenz Oken in 1822, the first meeting being held at Leipzig.

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in which he had already achieved notable success.
Owing, however, to the opposition of Eilhard Mitscher-
lich, to whom the matter was referred by the Prussian
Ministry of Public Worship and Instruction, the proj-
ect was abandoned.

As already mentioned, Goessmann's most important
researches in the field of pure chemistry were con-
ducted in the laboratory at Gottingen in the years 1852
to 1857 — years which were among the most active,
fruitful, and enjoyable of his whole life. The free and
cordial way in which he worked in conjunction with
his pupils and others is partly seen in the various names
which are associated with his in authorship.

His earliest investigation of which there is any pub-
lished record, and with which his active scientific
career may be said to begin, was upon the composition
of Cantharis vesicatoria, and the results of this research,
as already noted, appeared first in the dissertation for
his doctorate.^ He found that the fat of cantharidin
consists of stearin, palmitin, and olein in the form of
acid glycerides of margaric and oleic acids. At the
suggestion of Professor Heintz he attempted the reso-
lution of margaric acid by fractional precipitation into
stearic and palmitic acids, and succeeded in separating
the latter acid. In 1854 he discovered in the oil of the
ground-nut {Arachis hypogaea) a new acid with the
formula C20H40O2, subsequently confirmed by Berthe-

* The brief outline of Goessmann's work in the Gottingen Laboratory
here given does not conform in all respects to the chemistry of the
present. Nevertheless, as it was revised by Goessmann himself, though
many years ago, and received his approval, the editors decided to print
it unchanged.

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lot, to which he gave the name arachic (or arachidic)
acid. He next investigated the cocoa-nut oil, and found
it to consist, not only of stearin and olein, as earher
pointed out by Boussingault and Stenhouse, but also
of palmitin, the first mentioned in such predominating
proportion that it was considered one of the best ma-
terials for the preparation of pure stearic acid.

In 1854 he published the results of his memorable
research on the conversion of thialdin into leucin. In
this research was verified the relation supposed to ex-
ist by M. Cahours between thialdin and leucin. The
former, CeHuNSj, he converted into leucin, CgHisNOj,
by treatment with oxide of silver and water at 212°
Fahr. These results were at once communicated by
Wohler to Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Perpetual Secretary
of the French Academy of Sciences, and appeared in
the Comptes rendus the same year. It is interesting to
recall that in the years 1853 to 1856 (almost simultane-
ously therefore) Frerichs at Breslau and Virchow at
Wiirzburg were conducting investigations on the occur-
rence and separation of leucin and tyrosin in the ani-
mal organism, especially in the human liver.

Soon after this he investigated the compounds of
leucin. He showed that leucin might be considered the
amide of a compound acid consisting of valeral (alde-
hyde of valeric acid) and formic acid, a view subse-
quently confirmed by his colleague Limpricht. He
showed, moreover, that leucin forms salts with oxide of
copper and with peroxide of mercury; and that with
oxide of lead two series of salts are formed, one insolu-
ble and the other soluble. He also prepared leucic acid

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from leucin by the same process which served him for
the preparation of benzoglycohc acid from hippuric
acid. After distillation he recognized as products of
decomposition hydrocyanic and valeric (or valerianic)
acids, ammonia and valero-nitrile. Previously he had
obtained a solution which evolved the odour of chlo-
ride of cyanogen.

By a new method he obtained ethylamine from bi-
sulphite of aldehyde-ammonia by distillation with
calcium hydroxide. From the oil of bitter almonds
(benzoic aldehyde) he collected amarine and lophine.
He showed that lophine is formed when bisulphite of
ammonia and oil of bitter almonds are heated together
with dry calcium hydroxide. He and Atkinson like-
wise established the formula of lophine, C21H17N2, —
which differs very little from that adopted by Fownes,
one of the original discoverers of this base, — and also
showed that the pyrobenzoline of Fownes and the
lophine of Laurent are identical.

In 1855 Goessmann and Scheven, in a subsequent
investigation of the ground-nut oil, discovered a new
member of the oleic acid series with the formula
CieHsoOg, which they named hypogaeic acid. Goess-
mann and Caldwell showed that hypogaeic acid in
contact with nitrous acid is converted into the isomeric
compound, gaeidic acid. By dry distillation of hypo-
gaeic acid Goessmann obtained ordinary sebacic acid.
He also found palmitic acid present in the ground-
nut oil. Li his investigations on the combinations of
arachic acid he prepared arachin by heating equal
parts of arachic acid and glycerin in a sealed glass tube.

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He obtained from the oil of cassia a new base, which
he named triphenylamine, by heating the bisulphite
of the ammoniacal cinnamic aldehyde with calcium
hydroxide; and obtained tricaproylamine by a sim-
ilar mode from caproyl aldehyde. He prepared cou-
marin from the Tonka bean, discovered a profitable
way of separating styracin, and determined the compo-
sition of huanokine, a new base of Peruvian bark,
C20H12NO, and found that it is isomeric with cincho-
nine. He investigated the action of zinc chloride on
hippuric acid, and showed that when chlorine is passed
into a solution of hippuric acid in rather dilute potash,
nitrogen is evolved and benzoglycolic acid produced.

He obtained crystallized sulphocyanide of silver by
the action of oxide of silver upon sulphocyanide of
ammonium. Experiments on the action of oxide of
silver upon sulphocyanide of ammonium gave occa-
sion to the observation of the following very beautiful
mode of formation of sulphocyanide of silver. If freshly
precipitated oxide of silver be digested at a gentle heat
with a solution of sulphocyanide of ammonium, a con-
tinual evolution of ammonia takes place, while oxide
of silver is dissolved; and thus a compound of the sul-
phocyanides of silver and ammonium is formed, to-
gether with unchanged sulphocyanide of ammonium,
the process affording a beautiful example of rapid for-
mation of crystals. He found manganate of potassium
a suitable substance for decolourizing organic bodies,
and employed it in purifying uric, hippuric, and cya-
nuric acids, with great success. In 1857 he made re-
peated experiments with the view of obtaining by the

14 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

action of iodide of ethyl on tungstate of silver a com-
pound of oxide of ethyl and timgstic acid. In this he
did not succeed, but obtained iodide of silver, free
tungstic acid, and oxide of ethyl. He showed that ani-
line is obtained when nitrobenzene is treated with
caustic soda and arsenic trioxide — an investigation
completed by Wohler.

The year 1857 saw the completion of Goessmann's
researches in the field of pure chemistry, and with it
concluded the period of his most important discoveries.
He soon attained, however, a leading place among
technical chemists in the country of his adoption, and
his advice was often sought on important questions.
His attention was thus turned from purely scientific
subjects to matters of more practical interest.

While a teacher at Gottingen he numbered among
his American pupils and friends Caldwell of Cornell,
Chandler of Columbia, Clark of Amherst, Garrigues of
Michigan, Hungerford of Vermont, Joy of Union,
Mallet of Virginia, Marsh of Illinois, Nason of Rens-
selaer, Pugh of Pennsylvania, and Weyman of Pitts-
burgh. Anton Geuther, afterwards called to Jena, was
likewise a pupil of his and his immediate successor at
Gottingen. The testimonials he received bear witness
to the esteem in which he was held by his fellow work-
ers and students. One of the most gratifying was a
beautiful balance from his American students in-
scribed with their names. ^ At his departure from
Gottingen his pupils presented him with a silver lov-

* The plate bears the following inscription: 'Presented to Dr. Goess-
mann by J. Dean, C. Chandler. E. Pugh, G. C. Caldwell, E. P. Eastwick,
J. H. Eastwick, J. F. Magee, D. K. Tuttle, J. D. Hague, H. P. Nason.'

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DESCENT AND EARLY MANHOOD 15

ing-cup, bearing the following inscription : Ihrem ver-
ehrten Lehrer Dr. A. Goessmann die Practikanten des
Chemischen Laboratoriums Gottingen 26ten Mdrz 1857.
Wohler, his lifelong friend, gave him, amongst other
tokens of regard, the portfolio used by Berzelius and
himself for carrying notes and manuscripts during
their geological and mineralogical tour through Sweden
and Norway in 1824.

On 1 July 1824, Friedrich Wohler and Christian
Retzius set out for Skimskatteberg, the estate of
Hisinger the chemist, where they found Berzelius
awaiting them. There they spent a week, making
short excursions in the neighbourhood with Berzelius
and HisLDger. In the middle of July they journeyed to
Helsingborg to meet the Brongniarts — Alexandre,
the chemist and mineralogist, and his son Adolphe,
the botanist. Here they found Baron Wrede the phys-
icist, Oersted the founder of the science of electro-
magnetism, and Sir Humphry Davy the natural phi-
losopher. At Lund they were welcomed by Nilsson the
naturalist, and Agardh the botanist, and at Chris-
tiania by Hansteen the mathematician and astrono-
mer, Esmark the mineralogist, and Steffens the Natur-
phUosaph. After an absence of two months, the party
— which had included Berzelius, the Brongniarts, and
Wohler — returned to Stockholm. It does not appear,
as Goessmann supposed, that Arfvedson, the mineralo-
gist, was one of the party, though earlier the latter
made a short journey to the island of Uto, in the Baltic,
in company with Berzelius, Hisinger, C. Retzius, and
Wohler.

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In April 1857, notwithstanding the prospect of
further advancement, Goessmann left Gottingen. He
was led to this step, partly because of an urgent invi-
tation from the Eastwick Brothers of Philadelphia,
former pupils of his in technical chemistry, to visit
America and assume the chemical direction of an
extensive sugar refinery, but chiefly because it was in
accord with the advice of his revered teacher, which
was *to see something of the world and study the
great industries.' 'Unfortunately, I am to lose him,*
wrote Wohler to Liebig at this time, 'for five years my
assistant and known to you through his works.' ^

He obtained from the University Curatorium a three
years' leave of absence, for the purpose of studying the
chemical industries of France, England and the United
States. At his departure he was informed by the
authorities that whenever within the tliree years he
chose to return, he should be promoted to a professor-
ship. That he fully expected to return to Germany
there seems little doubt. It was not until some time
after he had entered upon his work at Syracuse that he
definitely resolved to remain in America.

The next few weeks were spent visiting some of the
leading German universities, as well as many manu-
facturing, refining, and industrial establishments in
Germany and France, thus giving him an opportunity
of seeing and becoming familiar with a great variety
of chemical operations on a large scale. During this
tour he met many of the foremost chemists of the Con-
tinent. He saw Bunsen at Heidelberg, Erdmann at

^ Liebig-Wdhlcr Briefwechsel, Bd. ii. S. 40.

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Leipzig, and Fehling at Stuttgart. At Munich he met
Pettenkofer and Buchner, but above all Liebig, the
latter, unless we except Wohler, the chief chemical
figure in Europe. At Berlin he met Eilhard IVIitscher-
lich, known by his discoveries in isomorphism, and the
highly accomplished analytical chemist, Heinrich Rose,
both, like his great teacher, pupils of Berzehiis, one of
the founders of modem chemistry. To this brilliant
group of scientists should be added Christian Friedrich
Schonbein, the chemical physicist and discoverer of
gun-cotton and ozone, Gustav Magnus, August Wil-
helm Hofmann, Rammelsberg, and the French chem-
ist, Henri Sainte-Claire Deville. These he met, and
many other scientific workers, and by all was cordially
received, his investigations and discoveries in organic
chemistry having already made his name familiar to
them.

CHAPTER n

FIRST YEARS IN AMERICA
1857-1868

On the 12th of May 1857, Goessmann embarked at
Bremen, in the steamship Ariel, for America. On his
arrival at New York he proceeded at once to Phila-
delphia, and entered upon his duties as Chemist and
General Superintendent of the Eastwick Brothers*
Steam Sugar Refinery. He had brought from Germany
considerable apparatus for the Eastwicks, and at once
set about increasing the eflBciency of their plant by
introducing more scientific and economic methods for
refining sugar, not the least important being the appli-
cation of caustic magnesia with acid phosphate of lime.

He greatly improved the method of refining sugar
by the defecation of solutions of crude cane sugar. He
found by experiment that by employing in combina-
tion caustic magnesia (or magnesium hydroxide) with
calcium hydroxide, better results were obtained than
by the use of either reagent alone; and, further, that a
thick cream of magnesium hydroxide and water, added
to the warmed sugar liquor, gave better results than
he or any one else had hitherto obtained.

During the following months he made a thorough
study and investigation of the Chinese sugar-cane
(Sorghum saccharatum) , the results of which were pub-
lished both in this country and Europe. From both a

FIRST YEARS IN AMERICA 19

chemical and an economic standpoint this elaborate
research is one of the most valuable made in America
respecting our knowledge of the plant and its products,
its potentialities as a source of sugar, its method of
culture, and the preparation of sugar and syrup from
its juice. It was his opinion at the time that, pro-
vided the percentage of sugar in the sorghum could
be increased in the same ratio as in the beet root, its
successful cultivation would become an accomplished
fact, and our farmers would be able to compete profit-
ably with the planters of the West Indies.

In February 1862, he read a paper of great impor-
tance and interest before the New York State Agricul-
tural Society, on the nature of Sorghum saccharatumy
discussing at length the history of the plant, its chem-
ical characters, the determination of the quality and
quantity of sugar, and its value for agricultural and
industrial purposes. Some four years earlier he had
sent this exhaustive monograph to Wohler, who gave
it to Henneberg, and it was published in the Journal
fiir Landwirthschajt. Returning to this subject ten
years later, Goessmann says: *I stated the results of a
chemical investigation carried out by me in 1857, con-
cerning the fitness of the sorghum cane for the manu-
facture of sugar and of superior syrups. These state-
ments have been confirmed, as far as its yield of good
quality of syrup is concerned; but the manufacture of
sugar has not been tried to any extent, although there
is no substantial reason why within some of the South-
ern States, with their favourable climate, a part of its
sugar might not be advantageously secured in crystals.

20 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

A proper defecation of the sorghum juice before its
concentration would doubtless accomplish that result.
In making these statements here, I do not intend to
assert that most of our Northern, and particularly our
Northwestern States can profitably engage in the pro-
duction of sorghum sugar. Localities liable to early
frosts and short seasons had better confine themselves,
if at all engaged in sorghum cultivation, to the manu-
facture of syrups, for unripe cane is entirely unfit for
the manufacture of crystallized sugar. The Middle
and some of the Southern States have apparently not
suflBciently appreciated the value of this crop.'

At the beginning of December 1860, Goessmann
abruptly terminated his engagement with the East-
wicks, and went at once to Cuba, for the purpose of
studying the agricultural industries, especially the cul-
tivation of sugar and tobacco, of the West Indies.
There he remained nearly four months, visiting many
plantations, witnessing the working of the sugar-cane,
experimenting with the juice, and thoroughly investi-
gating the processes of manufacturing and refining
sugar in the island.

On his return from the West Indies in March of 1861
he was invited by Dr. George H. Cook,^ professor of
geology at Rutgers College and state geologist of New
Jersey, 'to participate in a scientific investigation for
the improvement of the manufacture of dairy salt at
Syracuse, New York.* Goessmann seems to have made
a favourable impression at Syracuse, as he was offered,

* In 1852 Dr. Cook was sent abroad by the State of New York to study
the salt deposits of Europe.

FIRST YEARS IN AMERICA 21

and accepted, the position of Chemist and Superin-
tendent of the Salt Company of Onondaga.

This company had been estabhshed near Syracuse in
March 1860 — about a year, therefore, before Dr.
Goessmann's appointment. It was formed, not only
for the purpose of uniting the interests of the different
manufacturers of Onondaga salt, but in order to secure
a more thorough and systematic management, to re-
duce the cost of manufacture, and to improve and give
uniformity to the character and quality of Onondaga
salt. Such a co-operation of interests under a single
control would doubtless now be stigmatized as a mo-
nopoly and 'trust.'

'Regarding as of the utmost importance that a per-
fectly pure salt should be furnished for the use of all
engaged in making an article of such universal use as
butter, and fully appreciating the necessity of such
perfect uniformity in its quality as to command the
confidence of dairymen, the Salt Company of Onon-
daga has placed the manufacture of its Factory-filled
Dairy Salt under the superintendence of an accom-
plished chemist, who has for several years past made
agricultural and manufacturing chemistry his specialty,

— Dr. C. A. Goessmann, a graduate of, and for some
years a teacher in the German University of Gottingen,

— and who has for more than a year past devoted his
entire attention, in the employment of this company,
to the improvement of the processes of manufacturing
salt.'^ The claim made by the company, of making
*the best Dairy Salt knoion to the world,' under the cir-

* Rejfort qf the Salt Company of Onondaga for 1862.

22 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

cumstances was probably just; at least, according to
Professor Cook, no mean authority, it was fully equal
to the best imported salt. This statement was corrobo-
rated by Professor Porter, chemist to the New York
State Agricuiitural Society, who said it was equal in
purity to any of the foreign salts. 'Under the superin-
tendence of Dr. Goessmann,' said a leading chemist in
1867, *the Salt Company of Onondaga has succeeded
in making the best Dairy Salt in the world.* In Goess-
mann's time the salt works at Syracuse produced an-
nually eight million bushels of salt.

In the autumn of 1862 he was sent to Michigan to
examine the brines and saline deposits at Saginaw —
and here it may be mentioned that eight years later,
in 1870, Dr. Samuel S. Garrigues of Ann Arbor, state
inspector of salt and a former Gottingen student,
visited Dr. Goessmann at Amherst, and together they
framed the salt laws of Michigan.

In March 1866, he was appointed consulting cor-
respondent of the American Bureau of Mines, and in
October of that year was commissioned by the Board
of Experts to undertake the technical, chemical, and
industrial investigation of the recently discovered rock-
salt deposit of Petite Anse Island, New Iberia, on
Vermilion Bay, Louisiana. In November he visited
the island, where he remained several weeks, studying
the natural features, conditions, and commercial rela-
tions of its rock-salt deposit. The next year he made
two visits to Canada, the first in the latter part of
June and the second the last of December, for the
purpose of ascertaining the extent of the saline

FIRST YEARS IN AMERICA 23

resources and the quality of the brines, especially at
Goderich.

In 1862 he published his first paper on salines. This,
the first of a series of reports to the State Superintend-
ent of the Onondaga Salt Springs on the chemical com-
position of the brines, was followed by reports on the
brines of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Vir-
ginia, Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee,
on the rock-salt deposit of Petite Anse Island, on the
salt resources of Goderich, Canada West, and by other
contributions to the chemistry of mineral springs and
natural brines. The report on the rock-salt deposit of
Petite Anse Island — republished at Washington in
the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge — was
pronoimced by Professor Hilgard, then state geologist
of Mississippi, able and exhaustive, and confirmed
that author's previous conjectures *that the overlying
strata were the equivalents of the formation described
by him as the " Orange Sand" of Mississippi.*

The improvements introduced by Goessmann while
superintendent at Onondaga, in the manufacture of
pure dairy and table salt, were many and important.
He devised an ingenious method for freeing pure
sodium chloride, in the manufacture of salt, from the
chlorides of calcium and magnesium. Previously it had
been impossible effectually to remove those noxious
and deleterious ingredients, and the product was bitter
and unfit for either table or dairy use. He ladled the
crude salt-crystals from the brines on to inclined drip-
boards, and then washed them with a saturated water
solution of pure salt (sodium chloride). Such a solu-

24 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

tion does not dissolve sodium chloride, but being free
from the other chlorides (unsaturated for them) it dis-
solved and removes them, leaving behind pure sodium
chloride. He also invented a process for screening the
salt, whereby it is separated into large and small crys-
tals. The system of evaporating in pans, as recom-
mended by him, was also adopted in the salt-works at
Goderich, Canada.

Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, in his reports as director of
the Geological Survey of the Dominion of Canada,
expressed his *deep sense of the value of Dr. Goess-
mann's important contributions to the chemistry of
salt-making in New York.*

Professor John S. Newberry, in a paper on the rock-
salt deposits of the Salina Group in Western New York,
read before the New York Academy of Sciences, says:
*The unequal distribution of the "bitterns" in the
brines and salt of different localities is an interesting
feature in these salt deposits. In some places almost
the only ingredient of the brine is chloride of sodium,
and some of the rock-salt, as we have seen, is almost
chemically pure; in other locaKties, perhaps not dis-
tant, the brine or the salt contains an abnormal quan-
tity of the chlorides of calcium and magnesium and the
sulphate of magnesia and soda. This problem has been
carefully studied by Professor Chas. A. Goessmann,
and he has suggested what is doubtless its true solu-
tion, viz., that in the progressive evaporation of a basin
filled with water having the normal composition of sea-
water, the substances held in solution will be precipi-
tated in the inverse order of their solubility: — thus

IN THE SVKAC I SK I.AHOUATURY

FIRST YEARS IN AMERICA 25

sulphate of lime (gypsum), the least soluble ingredient,
will be the first thrown down, the chloride of sodium
next, and lastly, if at all, the deliquescent salts which
form the " bitterns." . . . This will account for the de-
position of gypsum, of pure salt, and of unusually bitter
salt, in different parts of the same basin.'

Facts illustrating this distribution of the solid con-
tent of salt water were reported by Goessmann from
the salt-basin of the Upper Ohio, and similar facts have
been brought to light in boring the wells about
Goderich.

A few months after Dr. Goessmann had entered on
his duties at Syracuse he was strongly urged by his
friends — especially by Professor Chandler, then at
Union College — to accept the professorship of chem-
istry in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy,
which had recently become vacant through the death
of Professor Elderhorst. In a letter from Professor
Chandler to Vice-President Brinsmade, dated Novem-
ber 9, 1861, touching Goessmann, he says: 'When I
worked as a pupil, under his direction in Wohler's
laboratory, he was universally beloved by the students,
and was a model of all that is desirable in a teacher.*
In his reply to a letter from Dr. Brinsmade, Goessmann
strongly urged the desirability of a thorough course of
instruction in chemistry and also submitted plans for
a chemical laboratory. For two years, from 1862 to
1864, he filled the chair of chemistry and physics at
the Institute and taught also mineralogy. He was
succeeded by Dr. Henry B. Nason, a former pupil at
Gottinsren.

26 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

Goessmann gave up his position at the Institute with
evident regret, but it was becoming more and more
difficult to discharge properly the duties of both posi-
tions, and he could hardly aflFord to relinquish Syracuse
for Troy. In a letter to Professor Drowne, he writes : —

'The necessity to look into my present condition
more than before, for an advantageous and sure in-
come, has mainly prompted me to decide finally, in
view of many circumstances, for Syracuse. Just at the
day when I received by a communication from W.
Gurley, Esq., the information of my appointment as
Professor, etc., I got a very advantageous offer from
Boston. My present employers, in view of these offers,
advanced my salary so as to make my present engage-
ment more acceptable. I have here a well-supplied
laboratory at my entire disposal, being permitted to
attend to any kind of investigation I wish to, par-
ticularly during the winter season.*

Dr. Goessmann now foimd himself in a position to
marry. On 22 October 1862, he married Mary Anna
Clara, daughter of Edward Kinny of Syracuse. Mr.
Kinny was a founder of the Church of St. John the
Evangelist, and a charter member of the Society of
St. Vincent de Paul. Mrs. Goessmann was educated
in the private schools of Syracuse and at the Academy
of Mount Saint Vincent-on-Hudson, where her kins-
woman, Mother Angela Hughes, sister of the Arch-
bishop, was then in charge.^

' Mrs. Goessmann died at Amherst, 13 October 1911. Their surviving
children are Miss Helena T. and Miss Mary F. Goessmann of Amherst,
Louis E. and Charles I. Goessmann of New York, and Mrs. Agnes R. Spratt
of Brooklyn. A son, Henry Edward Victor, died 27 April 1882, during his
junior year at the Agricultural College.

FIRST YEARS IN AMERICA 27

In 1863 Goessmann received a letter from Wohler,
saying that he had proposed him for the professorship
of technical chemistry in the HerzogHche Technische
Hochschule (formerly the Collegium Carolinum) at
Braunschweig, and he knew that they were seriously
considering him for that position, though a decision
might not be reached for a year. This was yet another
evidence of Wohler's high regard, and was very grati-
fying to Goessmann.

Goessmann writes : —

*We are already sufficiently aware that political af-
fairs in this country have so shaped themselves that
the future is not promising. Consequently, my desire
to return to the Fatherland under favourable condi-
tions will not surprise you. How much, therefore, I
have enjoyed your commimication concerning such a
prospect needs no further comment. ... As for the
present, I am still engaged here for this year, and at its
close I may possibly receive a new offer. I leave here
on your advice. Things will go on as they are, as I am
looking forward to a definite answer from you in the
autumn.'

Other letters passed between Wohler and Goess-
mann on the subject of his return to Germany, before
his final decision to remain in America.

CHAPTER III

THE CALL TO AMHERST
1868-1882

In May 1868 Dr. Goessmann was invited by the
Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College to
the professorship of chemistry recently established by
them. In December he removed to Amherst and
entered on his duties. Henceforth the teaching of
chemistry, research, and the diffusion of science in its
relation to agriculture, became the absorbing occupa-
tions of his life.

Some years before the election of William S. Clark
to the presidency of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College several letters had passed between Goessmann
and his old friend respecting a teaching position at
Amherst. In a letter dated June 10, 1865, Colonel
Clark writes: *How would you like to teach practical
chemistry or to be connected as teacher with a New
England college?' Writing nearly two years later, on
March 16, 1867, he says: 'This is to urgently beg you
to visit me here in the month of May next. . . . We are
about starting our new Agricultural College here and
possibly may have work for you.' And again, in
November following,^ he writes: 'President Stearns [of

* A few months earlier Colonel Clark had resigned the chair of chemistry
at Amherst College to accept the presidency of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, and his successor had not yet been appointed.

THE CALL TO AMHERST 29

Amherst College] would like to have you come on
here next week that he may see you with reference to
lectures, etc. next term.'

Dr. Goessmann's letter accepting the Amherst
Professorship runs as follows: —

Syracuse, May 16th, 1868.

Colonel W. S. Clark, Ph.D.

President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College,
Amherst, Mass.
Dear Sir, —

Your favour of 13th inst., in which you announce to
me my election as Professor of Chemistry in the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, came in due
time to hand. I take the liberty of informing you, that
I hereby accept that position on the conditions speci-
fied in your letter. I add at the same time, that I shall
attend most cheerfully to my duties and thereby in
my opinion aid you best in accomplishing the object
for which your institute has been established. As soon
as the present pressure in business shall permit me to
settle upon an exact time for a visit at Amherst, — to
consult on fixtures and apparatus, etc., for my partic-
ular branch of instruction, I propose to write again.
Please accept my most sincere thanks for the kind
interest taken in my behalf. I remain.
Very respectfully yours,

Charles Anton Goessmann.

He was forty-one. President Clark thus describes
him: 'The other professor [Goessmann] is not here.

30 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

He is coming on Friday. I am very sorry he could not
be here to-day, for I would like to have you see him.
He is a hearty, full-blooded, wide-awake, nervous
German. I will not compare him with Agassiz, but I
will say he is a man of a temperament something like
his. We were fellow-students in a German university
twenty years ago, and he was one of the best students
of his time. When we graduated together, the profes-
sor came to me and said: "What do you think of that
young man as an assistant for me? " "I think he is the
very best man you can find." Said he, " I think just
so," and immediately appointed him his assistant. That
professor is the best chemist in the world. ... I know
there is not a better practical chemist in the United
States than Dr. Goessmann. I anticipate that he will
be a light in this country, right here among this people,
and that scientific investigations and experiments will
be carried on under his supervision here, by the stu-
dents of this College, which will redound to the credit
of the State, and to the credit of this Board, as con-
nected with the College.' ^

Elsewhere, he says: *His large experience as a
teacher, and his great familiarity with the applications
of chemistry to the arts, qualify him, in a peculiar
manner, for the important position of chemist in the
Agricultural College. It is confidently expected that,
imder his supervision, analyses of commercial fertil-
izers will be made, and suitable experiments instituted,

> Address by President Clark on the 'Work and the Wants of the Col-
lege,' before the State Board of Agrictilture, meeting at Amherst, Decem-
ber 8. 1868.

CHARI.KS A. (;<)K:

Al.out 1>"

vMANN

THE CALL TO AMHERST 31

to determine for what purposes and at what prices the
farmers of the State should employ them.' ^

*I know of his work as a scientific chemist,' said
Professor Agassiz, 'and I do not believe that you could
have had a better appointment. I believe that the
gentleman is not only fully competent to fulfil his
duties with honour to the institution and credit to him-
self, but I believe he is one of those men who will
advance his science also, if he is not overburdened with
local duties and with teaching. He is a foreigner. . . .
It is not a very dangerous thing to take professors from
foreign parts. I am such an one, and I have in a measure
succeeded in making myself a native American.'

The duties of the new professorship included teach-
ing 'four hours per day five days in the week during
39 weeks of the year. Also, to render assistance by
chemical analysis or consultation, as required, to the
amount of about one hour per day, if needed.' 'I
shall expect of course,' says President Clark, 'to do
what I can to render your duties agreeable and shall
rely much upon you for advice and assistance in the
most important enterprise with which I am entrusted.
I intend to have the chemical department of the Col-
lege equal to any in the country.'

The College had but just started. It was, moreover,
an experiment and was feeling its way. A department
of chemistry could hardly be said to exist. There was,
to be sure, a modest building called the Chemical
Laboratory, but it possessed neither apparatus nor

* Sixth Annual Report of the Mattachutetts Agricultural College, Janu-
ary 1869.

32 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

fittings nor furniture, and was used as a gymnasium.
Dr. Goessmann entered on his duties with zeal, devot-
ing himself to the improvement of the equipment for
both demonstration and research, and to the organiza-
tion of courses of lectures and laboratory instruction.
He not only organized and established this department
on a firm and enduring basis, laying the foundation
broad and deep, but from the first he stamped his in-
fluence and personahty on the structural growth of the
College, and was a guiding and controlling spirit in
shaping its policy. The reputation which the institu-
tion attained, almost from the beginning, was in large
measure due to him. His lectures were not only in-
structive,, but inspiring, and not a few of his students
remember him with affection and respect as the most
stimulating influence in their intellectual life. For
fifteen years he gave unaided all the instruction in
chemistry and chemical physics, both in the classroom
and the laboratory. It was not until 1884, two years
after the Experiment Station had been regularly organ-
ized, that an assistant professorship was established,
thus relieving him of much tutorial work and some
other college duties. He continued, however, to lec-
ture to the Senior Class on the chemistry of fertil-
izers, the commercial industries, and on organic
chemistry.

Agassiz had insisted that there should be more than
one professor of chemistry, so that each should have
some time to make investigations; 'for believe me,'
he says, *the professor who is exhausted by teaching
cannot even learn what others do to keep up with the

THE CALL TO AIVIHERST 33

times, still less contribute to the advancement of
knowledge in his science.' Fortunately Agassiz's fears
proved to be groundless. Goessmann's sturdy indus-
try and scientific activity were enormous, and the
yearly output of the Chemical Department in contri-
butions far exceeded that of all the others. Chemical
work was always in progress in some form. It should
be remembered, too, that all the time he carried on a
large and exacting correspondence with promptness,
read papers, delivered public lectures, and attended to
the analytical work of his private laboratory.

His first year at Amherst was marked by two highly
interesting and instructive papers. The first of these,
*0n the Chemistry of Common Salt with Reference
to our Home Resources,' was read at the Northampton
session of the National Academy of Sciences. The
second, 'On Salt and its Uses in Agriculture,' deliv-
ered before the Massachusetts State Board of Agricul-
ture, was his earliest paper on fertilization and may be
considered, with one exception, his first direct contri-
bution to agricultural chemistry. He also found time
during that busy year to revise Scheerer's Blowpipe
Manual^ for use at the College.

Li his letters to President Clark, Goessmann had
insisted on the importance of experimental research,
and in December of 1869 he proposed a series of experi-
ments *to determine the comparative merits of the
various sugar-producing plants — maple, sorghum,
cane, and sugar-beet — raised upon our own soil.'
These were the earliest field experiments conducted at
the College. Early in 1870 he procured from Germany

34 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

seeds of the thirteen best varieties of sugar-beets culti-
vated in Saxony and Prussia, and showed by trial
those best adapted to our soil and climate for the pro-
duction of sugar and syrup from the root. These ex-
periments were carried out between 1870 and 1874,
and appear to have been the first scientific experiments
in sugar-beet culture in this coimtry.

The reports^ constitute an important contribution
to agricultural literature. At the time they attracted
wide attention, both in this country and Canada, lead-
ing to similar experiments under his direction in New
York and the Dominion, the latter at the request of
the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and
Public Works, with reference to the cultivation of the
sugar-beet throughout the Province of Quebec. He
demonstrated conclusively that the beet-sugar indus-
try, which has added so largely to the wealth of France
and Germany, can be profitably pursued in the north-
ern states of North America and Canada; and that it is
possible to grow beets of high sugar content in Massa-
chusetts upon well-drained mellow loams (a rich, first-
class barley soil) when proper attention is given to
fertilization and cultivation.

In 1870 the American Chemist was launched by
Charles F. and William H. Chandler, with the assist-
ance of several leading chemists, among whom were
Alsberg, Barker, Bolton, Egleston, Joy, and Goess-
ma,nn. During the few years of its existence Goessmann
was a regular contributor to its pages.

* 'The report,' says a writer in the Scientific American, 'is one of the
most valuable contributions to agricultural science that has been made in
our country, and reflects great credit upon its author.'

THE CALL TO AMHERST 35

In January 1873 he printed an exhaustive paper on
'Commercial Fertilizers/ Able and full of valuable
facts and suggestions, it was pronounced the most im-
portant essay on that subject which had yet appeared
in this country. One of the immediate results of the
discussion induced by this report was the enactment of
a law — the first of its kind in the United States —
regulating their manufacture and sale; or, in the trench-
ant language of Goessmann, its author, the object of
the law is to compel the dealers in these articles *to
state what they sell and to sell what they state,* This law
for fertilizer control, compelling commercial manures
to be sold according to a guaranteed composition to be
ascertained by chemical analysis, thereby protecting
the honest dealer and manufacturer as well as the
farmer, revolutionized the fertilizer trade of the coun-
try, and served as the model and inspiration for all
subsequent legislation of the kind in other states. For
thirty-five years Dr. Goessmann was charged with the
administration and execution of this law in Massa-
chusetts.

Early in the year he had been appointed Chemist
of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. With
the passage of the fertilizer law, he became ex officio a
member of the Board and State Lispector of Fertil-
izers. One of the duties of the State Lispector was to
make an annual report to the Board of Agriculture.
Professor Julius A. Stockhardt of Saxony, the distin-
guished agricultural chemist, closes his review of
Goessmann's first report on commercial fertilizers as
follows: 'There can be no doubt that in America

36 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

satisfactory and reliable fertilizers can be obtained,
as they were in Germany, by strictly adhering to
the chemical control adopted, and by providing for
chemistry what it needs for efficient work — both
confidence and ample means.' Professor At water
called the report a very valuable pamphlet upon the
sources of supply and quality of the more important
fertilizing materials used in Massachusetts.

* Stable-manure,' says Goessmann in this report,
*is still the main fertilizer in ordinary farm operations,
yet its peculiar value to-day rests more on its beneficial
influence on the physical condition of the soil than on
its effect on the chemical composition of the latter.'
By a tabular statement of the ingredients he shows
that, although the most complex of our common fer-
tilizers, it is a complete manure only in exceptional
cases, and that the permanent improvement of the
soil depends almost entirely upon the introduction of
other substances, such as the guanos and phosphates.

'All friends of the College,' said President Clark of
the second report, 'ought to be grateful for the pro-
duction of a paper which combines most happily scien-
tific knowledge with practical wisdom.' Hon. Marshall
P. Wilder declared, that these two reports were * worth
more to the Commonwealth than all that had been
expended for the maintenance of the Board since its
first organization.' Among the well-known members
of the Board of Agriculture at that time were Louis
Agassiz, William S. Clark, Charles L. Flint, Charles G.
Davis, WilUam Knowlton, George B. Loring, Charles
S. Sargent, Levi Stockbridge, Joseph N. Sturtevant,

THE CALL TO AI^IHERST • 37

and Marshall P. Wilder. A year later Paul A. Chad-
bourne was appointed to fill the vacancy in the Board
occasioned by the death of Agassiz. Standing pre-
eminent among the technical and agricultural chem-
ists of the country, Goessmann was the pride of the
Board, as Hitchcock and Agassiz had been before him,
and from 1874 till his death he was one of its most
distinguished members and the principal contributor
to its reports.

In 1874 Goessmann began a systematic investiga-
tion, extending over six years, of the chemical and
physical condition of the salt marshes of the State,
especially above the mouth of Green Harbor River
in the town of Marshfield, and showed the best method
of reclaiming and subduing them and making them
available for tillage. His reports upon the composition
of the soil and beach sand at Marshfield, and the chem-
ical changes occurring as the result of diking, resulted
within a short time in the reclamation of large tracts
of a similar character with those under experiment at
Green Harbor. The same year he made a thorough
examination and trial for agricultural purposes of the
South Carolina phosphates, both in the raw state and
after treatment with acids. In 1876 and the two fol-
lowing years experiments with various fertilizers upon
sugar-cane were carried out under his direction at
Calumet Plantation, Bayou Teche, Louisiana.

While Robert Koch was pursuing his researches upon
the bacillus of tuberculosis, Goessmann, assisted by
Penhallow, was studying the relation of special fertil-
izers to certain diseases of plants, hitherto supposed

38 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

to be parasitic in origin. He maintained that the dis-
ease of peach trees known as ' the yellows ' was due to
impaired nutrition, and that after treatment with a
phosphatic fertilizer in connexion with potassium
chloride they become vigorous and healthy.

During the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia
one of the French Commissioners visited the College
vineyards at Amherst, then under treatment with
special fertilizers for the Phylloxera, and observed that
nowhere had he seen more vigorous vines or better
developed fruit, expressing surprise that such should
be the case. * We feed the vines and the Phylloxera
too,' said Dr. Goessmann in reply; 'the excessive
supply of food to the vines giving them a stimula-
tion which enables them to resist successfully the
effects of the parasite.'

Between 1874 and 1876, with his able assistant,
David P. Penhallow, he investigated the physiological
effect of special chemical fertilizers upon the carbo-
hydrate content of various fruit-bearing plants and
the quality of the fruit. He studied especially the be-
haviour of certain wild and cultivated grape-vines
under the influence of different fertilizing agents,
whereby the amount of acid, sugar, and ether in the
fruit may be increased or modified and the formation
of the aromatic principles peculiar to the species pro-
moted even to the flavour of the fruit and the bouquet
of wines. He found also *that the colouring matter
which is characteristic of the ripe grape is already, in
some concealed form, present at a very early stage of
its growth.' These experiments on the relation of the

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mineral constituents of plants to the growth of the
organs of vegetation — that is, the changes in their
chemical composition duriag growth — and the qual-
ity and ripening of fruits, he considered of great im-
portance, as they might enable us to modify at will the
relative proportions of acid, sugar, and ether in our
fruits, and, thereby, produce practically new varieties
of superior quality and market value.

Goessmann co-operated also with President Clark
and Professor Peabody in the study of the circulation
and flow of sap in plants; with Professor Stockbridge
in the study of special fertilization and the behaviour
of soil waters; and with Professor Maynard in a series
of field experiments with grape-vines and various fruit
trees, extending over several years, for the purpose of
testing the action of different kinds of plant-food on
their productiveness in the quantity and quality of the
fruit. In 1878 he pubUshed an interesting paper on the
effect of girdling upon the growth, composition, and
quahty of grapes, proving conclusively that those
growing on properly girdled branches ripen much
earUer than those on ungirdled branches. During those
busy years he found time to write several articles,
chiefly on beet and cane-sugar, fertilizers, and salt, for
Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, for many years
the standard work of its kind in America.

In January 1878, with the approval of the Trustees,
the Massachusetts Experimental Station was estab-
lished at Amherst, Professor Stockbridge having gen-
erously offered the sum of one thousand dollars to de-
fray the necessary expenses of agricultural experiments

40 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

for one year. This, although merely a private enter-
prise, was the forerunner of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural Experiment Station established by act of the
legislature four years later, and of its successor, the
Hatch Station. It should be remembered, however,
that an experiment station, having as its aim system-
atic research for the improvement of agriculture and
the dissemination of practical knowledge relating
thereto, had existed at the College — in fact, if not in
name — since 1870. For eight years the Chemical
Department had been conducting the work of an
experiment station, and Dr. Goessmann's extensive
experiments in sugar-beet culture, and the published
results of that memorable investigation were its first
fruits.

As pointed out by Penhallow, the scientific observa-
tions of Clark, Goessmann, and Stockbridge from 1870
to 1876 constituted the real beginning of the Station
and gave a powerful impetus to a movement which has
since resulted in the establishment of similar stations
throughout the United States and Canada. Looking
back on those early years one marvels at their produc-
tiveness, at the scope and quality of the work, and all
the more as little or no provision then existed for meet-
ing the necessary expenses of such operations.

The value of agricultural experiment stations had
long been recognized in Europe. As early as 1836 Jean-
Baptiste Boussingault was conducting, at Bechelbronn
in Alsace, his noted experiments with stock-feeding to
test the efficiency of fodder rations. Seven years later,
in 1843, John Bennet Lawes established at Rotham-

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sted, near London, his world-famous model station
for the investigation of problems relating to plant-
nutrition. It should be remembered, however, that
Lawes had been experimenting since 1834, and hence
the Rothamsted Station has been called the oldest
agricultural station in the world. Li 1849 Emil Wolff
foimded at Mockem in Saxony the first agricultural
station in Germany, and by 1876 there were no fewer
than sixty-two such stations in successful operation in
the German Empire. The first agricultural experiment
station in America was established at Middletown in
1875, in the chemical laboratory of Wesleyan Univer-
sity. The Massachusetts station was among the earli-
est — if not the earliest — to be associated with a
land-grant college, and the second — the Connecticut
station at New Haven, established in 1877, being the
first — to be incorporated in the United States. But
it should not be forgotten that field and feeding experi-
ments were carried on in the sixties at both the Michi-
gan and the Pennsylvania State Colleges — at the
former by Robert C. Kedzie and Manly Miles, at the
latter by Evan Pugh, then fresh from Rothamsted and
the first president and professor of chemistry of the
Pennsylvania State College.

The Trustees, gladly accepting the gift of Professor
Stockbridge, at once appointed a committee — con-
sisting of President Clark, Professor Stockbridge,
Professor Goessmann, Secretary Flint, and Hon.
Richard Goodman — with full power to act as the
managers of the station.

Subjects for scientific observation and investigation

42 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

were now assigned to Professor Stockbridge and Pro-
fessor Goessmann, respectively, the results of which
appeared in the next annual report of the College.
Those assigned to Professor Stockbridge included
observations on rainfall, percolation and evaporation
of water from the soil, temperature of soil and air,
deposition of dew on the soil and plant. Dr. Goess-
mann undertook an examination of the Early Amber
Cane, — a variety of sorghum produced in Minnesota,
— its sugar constituents, and the practical method of
working the crop. His experiments seemed to show
conclusively that this variety of sorghum cannot be
profitably cultivated in Massachusetts for the produc-
tion of dry sugar, though the yield and quality of the
syrup were satisfactory.

The problems relating to the nutrition of plants had
long occupied Goessmann's thought. He now turned
his attention more particularly to those of animal
nutrition or the chemical relations which exist between
animal life and animal food. His earliest investigation
in this field was on the relative value of several varie-
ties of corn for feeding purposes, and the results and
conclusions reached were embodied in two papers read
before the Board of Agriculture in 1879 and 1882.
These experiments, and others of a similar character,
extending over a series of y-ears, were undertaken in
order to determine the eflBciency and feeding-value of
the various kinds of fodder-crops and substances and
thereby to establish a rational system of stock-feeding.

On the 12th of May 1882, by act of the Legislature,
the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station

THE CALL TO AMHERST 43

was established at Amherst for the scientific investi-
gation of problems relating to agriculture. The Board
of Control of the new station organized for work in
July, and in November Dr. Goessmann was appointed
Director and Chemist. From 1888 to 1895 he was
ex officio a member of the Board, and from 1892 to 1895
Treasurer of the Station. Li 1895 the Massachusetts
Station became merged in the so-called Hatch Experi-
ment Station of the College, and he retired from the
directorship with the title of Honorary Director, and
was placed in charge of the chemical-fertilizer and
fertUizer-control work, a position he filled until his
retirement in 1907. Happily, the 'Hatch' has since
been dropped and the earlier and more euphonious
name restored.

Li the early years Professor Manly Miles and Pro-
fessor Samuel T. Maynard were associated with Dr.
Goessmann in the work of the Station — the former as
superintendent of field and stock experiments, the
latter as superintendent of horticultural experiments,
microscopist, and draughtsman. Li 1888 Dr. James E.
Humphrey was appointed vegetable physiologist and
mycologist, and in 1892 Dr. Joseph B. Lindsey became
associate chemist. These investigators contributed
many papers in various lines of research to the bulle-
tins and annual reports of the Director.

CHAPTER IV

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE

WoHLER and his co-workers had mspired young
Goessmann with the spirit of investigation. He had
not been at the College long before he began a study of
Massachusetts agriculture, and the application of
chemistry thereto. During his long period of service
he investigated a large number of agricultural prob-
lems, the more important of which are referred to
in the pages which follow.

I. PRODUCTION OF BEET SUGAR IN MASSACHUSETTS

First Paper. Report on the production of beet sugar
as an agricultural enterprise in Massachusetts. {Eighth
Report of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1871.)

In this paper he called attention to the large amount
of sugar imported into the United States, reviewed
briefly the sugar-cane industry of Louisiana, and then
gave a most instructive account of the entire method of
sugar-beet cultivation and manufacture in Europe and
of the general condition of the European sugar indus-
try. He declared that the success of the beet-sugar
industry in the United States depended, first, on a
careful selection of superior seeds of the best foreign
varieties, and subsequently of the choicest seed beets;
and, secondly, on the proper choice of lands which are
not only adapted to the cultivation of root-crops in

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 45

general, but are in such a state of fertility as to enable
the farmer to supply the kind and amount of plant-
food required for the production of a special crop for a
special purpose/

In an appendix to the report are presented photo-
graphs and weights of different varieties of beets grown
upon the College farm and the sugar content of the
same.

Second Paper. Report on sugar beets raised upon
the College farm. {Ninth Report of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College^ 1872.)

This paper gave the results of his own experiments
in the field and laboratory along three distinct lines:
(a) methods for producing good sugar beets in accord-
ance with the rules stated in his previous report; (6) a
study of the chemical properties of the sugar beets
grown on the College farm, with reference to their fit-
ness for beet-sugar manufacture; and (c) a study by
actual tests of the amount of sugar available for com-
mercial purposes.

The paper described in detail the selection of soil,
method of planting, care of the crop during the growing
period, and method of fertilization. He also discussed
the effect of potash salts on the basis of German inves-
tigations. He further presented data relative to the
weights of the different varieties of beets grown upon
the College farm and their sugar content at different
stages of growth; also the amount of nitrogenous sub-
stance and ash contained in the juices. In the process
of extracting the sugar he followed, on a small scale.

46 CHAKLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

the method in use at the time in foreign beet-sugar fac-
tories for the removal of the sugar, and found that
substantially 1,900 pounds could be secured from an
average acre of beets. He stated that, if the same
equipment were available as employed in foreign sugar
factories, he believed that beets raised in Massachu-
setts could be made to yield as high as 2,270 pounds of
sugar per acre, the amount under favourable conditions
then secured in Germany. His object in conducting
these experiments was to demonstrate that by follow-
ing the methods of cultivation then in vogue in Ger-
many and France it was perfectly feasible to develop
the sugar-beet industry in Massachusetts.

In the Tenth Report of the College John C. Dillon, the
farm superintendent, gives an illustrated description
of the machinery, imported from Germany under the
advice of Goessmann for the cultivation of the sugar
beet, which included a beet planter, several beet culti-
vators, and a beet digger.

Third Paper. Report on experiments with sugar
beets. {Eleventh Report of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College^ 1874.) The paper was devoted to the re-
sults of four field experiments with beets conducted on
the College grounds, and also in New York State and
in Canada.

In Experiment I, roots of the Vilmorin and Electoral
varieties were grown upon land which had produced a
crop of beets the previous season, and which received
as a special fertilizer kainit and bone superphosphate.
The seed was collected and the next year planted on

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 47

suitable land properly fertilized. The juice from the
beets contained some 14 per cent, cane sugar, and the
beets were equal to the best thus far produced at the
College.

In Experiment 11, 100 pounds of beet seed were
imported from Saxony. Four acres of beets were
planted from this seed on the College farm. Ten pounds
of the same seed were sent to the New York Agricul-
tural Society and planted by six farmers in dilSferent
parts of the state. Samples of the beets grown were
sent to Goessmann, who found the juice to contain all
the way from 7.37 to 15.10 per cent, of sugar. The
wide variations he believed to be due to the method
of fertilization. Highly nitrogenous manure, or the
appHcation of partly decomposed stable-manure in
the spring, was considered particularly objectionable,
causing an increase in the amount of impurity in
the juice and preventing a favourable development of
the sugar. He stated that a satisfactory juice should
not contain over one part of impurity to five parts
of sugar. He laid particular stress upon planting the
beets in deep mellow loams that had not been too
heavily manured. The application of well-rotted stable
manure in the spring, or preferably the year previous
to planting the beets, was advised, and supplementing
the same with sulphate of potash and superphosphate.

Experiment HI was conducted on the College farm.
He found fresh horse-manure to be quite unfavourable
to the development of cane sugar. Land that had re-
ceived stable manure two years previously, and that
recei^^ng sulphate of potash, produced beets containing

48 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

the highest percentages of sugar (12.19 and 12.78 per
cent).

Experiment IV gives the results of tests made by
Goessmann of beets grown in Canada under the super-
vision of the Canadian Department of Agriculture.
The sugar percentage varied from 8.83 to 11.38. He
concluded that a stricter compliance with the well-
endorsed rules of cultivation will, no doubt, produce
a higher and thus a satisfactory quality of sugar beets
in both localities.

Fourth Paper. On the cultivation of the sugar beet
for the manufacture of sugar. {Agriculture of Massa-
chusetts, 1879.)

Professor Goessmann presented a comprehensive
paper, giving the results of his experiments with sugar
at the College and also a review of the best methods of
sugar-beet cultivation, manufactm-e, and utilization
of by-products which were employed in Europe at that
time. His several papers attracted the attention of
thoughtful men all over the country as well as in
Canada. He believed that the production of beet sugar
would, at some time, be a Massachusetts industry.
The only difficulty he foresaw was in securing co-
operation between the farmer and the capitalist. At
the conclusion of his final pap>er on the subject, he says,
that the * future prospect of the beet-sugar manufac-
ture rests largely with the decision of our farmers,
whether they are willing to unite with our capitalists
in sharing the responsibility of the new industry.*

Goessmann was a pioneer in advocating the beet-

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 49

sugar industry in the United States, and although he
never saw his prophecy realized in Massachusetts be-
cause of the more profitable use of the land for other
crops, his teachings concerning the cultivation and
fertilization of the beet hold true at the present time,
and he lived to see a large beet-sugar industry devel-
oped in California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Michi-
gan. The present area in the United States devoted to
sugar beets is some 624,000 acres which produced in
1915, in round numbers, 862,800 tons of sugar. ^

n. RECLAMATION OF SALT MARSHES

First Paper. On the best mode of subduing and util-
izing for tillage the salt marshes in this state, after they
are drained. (Agriculture of Massachusetts, 1874.) In
this paper he 'gives the origin, the general character,
and the agricultural history of a few successfully re-
claimed sea-marshes of Europe, for the purpose of
rendering more prominent some striking features of
similarity which exist between them and the recently
diked marshes above the mouth of Green Harbor
River in the township of Marshfield, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts.' He described in some detail * grad-
ual changes which the original vegetation was under-
going since the water of the ocean has been excluded,
in consequence of the construction of an efficient dike,
pointing out on the same occasion some of the causes
which seemed to control the still varying or broken-up
aspect of the present natural growth in the different
sections of the salt marshes.*

' Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1915, p. 497.

50 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

From a study of water taken from the subsoil in
diflFerent parts of the marsh lands, of samples of soil,
and of the crops raised the first season, he advised as
absolutely indispensable the adoption of an efficient
system of drainage, after which attention should be
given to the improvement of the chemical and physical
condition of the soil by thorough cultivation.

Second Paper. Report on the salt marshes above the
mouth of Green Harbor River in the township of
Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. {Agri-
culture of Massachusetts, 1875.)

This paper was a continuation of Dr. Goessmann's
report on the reclaimed salt marshes in Marshfield.
As a result of drainage he found an improvement over
the previous year in the composition and level of the
subsoil waters, resulting in a change in the colour of
the surface soil and the rapid decomposition of organic
matter underlying the sod. Wherever drainage was poor
on account of a hard clay subsoil, vegetation was killed
or seriously injured by an excessive amount of salines
in the soil. Only a small part of the best-drained land
was suitable for general cultivation as yet, the greater
part of it being seeded to grass without ploughing.
Both grass and vegetables gave promise of good crops
imtil largely destroyed by grasshoppers in late June.

He recommended that one general plan for the
drainage of the entire area of the marshes be devised
and put in operation, and that the land be thoroughly
ploughed wherever the sod became too spongy to sup-
port a good grass crop.

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 51

Third Paper. On the improvement of salt marshes.
{Agriculture of Massachusetts, 1876.)

This was a fm-ther report on the Marshfield marsh
lands. The condition of the land and crops was en-
couraging, although some failures were experienced,
and similar failures were to be expected for some years
until the land had been under cultivation long enough
to get the soil into better physical condition. The ex-
amination of soil and of drainage waters showed that
ineflBcient drainage even in the vicinity of the river
was still the main cause of crop-failures. He stated that
all attempts to establish a rational system of tillage
would fail so long, and in the same degree, as efficient
drainage was neglected. He then outlined a plan for a
drainage system of which the river with its tributaries
should be the centre from which the main ditches
should start, and to which all ditches should have an
outlet. The old ditches in many instances might be-
come links in this new system. He again recommended
ploughing as soon as the soil failed to produce a good
grass crop due to the breaking down of the old sod.
He made no definite recommendations as to a system
of crop rotation, but advised that for some years crops
should be selected with a view to improving the
mechanical condition of the soil, and that a rotation of
crops should be chosen, with the aim not only of econo-
mizing the latent plant-food, but also of preserving a
liberal amount of organic matter in the soil.

Fourth Paper. The improvement of salt marshes in
the town of Marshfield, made together with George M.

52 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

Baker. (Agriculture of Massachusetts, 1877.) This is a
report of progress in which is shown that of the total
area of 1,250 acres of marsh land, some 250 acres were
under cultivation, including 50 acres which had been
ploughed. A partial summary of the various crops raised
is given. He placed great emphasis upon a more thor-
ough system of drainage. After this had been accom-
plished he felt sure that the marsh area would become
very valuable for agricultural purposes. Attention was
called to the claim for damages likely to be made for
alleged injuries to the harbour as a result of drainage
of the marshes. This matter had resulted in causing
some owners to refrain from further drainage plans
until it was settled.

Fifth Paper. The same title as fourth paper. (Agri-
culture of Massachusetts y 1878.) The dike which was
constructed to keep out the sea-water proved its
worth on the entire area of marsh and * shows, year
after year, more decided signs of a progressing decay
within its accumulated vegetable matter, in partic-
ular in that portion of it which directly underlies
the surface growth.' He regrets that a more general
drainage plan has not been adopted, feeling sure that
if the matter was undertaken in a thorough manner
together with a liberal use of the plough, the marsh
area would become very productive.

Sixth and Seventh Papers. The same title as fourth pa-
per. (Agriculture of Massachusetts,lS79 andlSSO.) Brief
reports of the same tenor as fourth and fifth papers.

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 53

The year 1880 proved unfortunate for crop-production
on the reclaimed areas because of very dry weather
during the early part of the season. He concludes this
series of papers as follows : * We believe the community
never had more confidence in the richness and fertility
of the soil than they have to-day. Evidently, nothing
but a favourable decision of the courts is needed to
secure outside capital for more general and rapid devel-
opment of the agricultural resources of the reclaimed
sea-marshes at Marshfield.*

in. RELATIVE VALUE OF SEVERAL VARIETIES OF CORN
FOR FEEDING PURPOSES

(Agriculture of Massachusetts y 1879.) The paper be-
gins with an historical account of the work done on
animal nutrition, dividing it roughly into four periods.

The early attempts to inquire into chemical rela-
tions between animal life and animal food, beginning
with Lavoisier in 1780 and continuing for the next
fifty years, were of but little practical value to agricul-
turists, because of the uncertainty of the chemical
methods used, and also because stock-feeding had not
at that time received much attention.

The second period began in 1836 with the work of
Boussingault and Liebig. The most important service
rendered by Boussingault to the science of rational
stock-feeding consists in the introduction of the chem-
ical analysis as an essential requirement for the deter-
mination of the feeding value of an article of fodder.
Boussingault was of the opinion that the nitrogen alone
of the fodder constituents was of direct feeding value.

54 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

while the non-nitrogenous materials served merely as
the support of animal respiration. Liebig, on the other
hand, recognized that no single constituent of a plant
can support animal life — neither nitrogenous matter
nor fat, neither sugar nor mineral substance: it re-
quires a certain definite proportion of each for different
classes of animals, and even for different conditions of
one and the same animal.

To this period belongs the practice of classifying
agricultural fodder-crops by making hay the standard
for the determination of their relative feeding value.
At first this was merely a comparison of the market
values of different fodders; but later the basis of com-
parison was changed to make the chemical analysis of
good meadow hay the basis of the classification of
fodder crops. This method of comparison continued in
force for many years, but became more and more un-
satisfactory as a greater variety of fodder crops became
common.

The efforts of these two leaders in rational agricul-
ture (Boussingault and Liebig) to turn chemistry to
practical account in agricultural operations, 50on led to
a more general introduction of agricultural experiment
stations. Much analytical work and many feeding
experiments conducted at these experiment stations,
showed that no one plant can furnish a standard for a
general fodder-valuation, and that no single definite
numerical expression can state the relative or absolute
feeding value of any fodder. Gradually it became clear
that a knowledge of the chemical composition of the
fodder articles alone was not sufficient to determine

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 55

their exact feeding value, but that the degree of their
digestibility exerted a controlling influence on their
qualification to support animal life.

Grouven conducted a series of experiments (1860-
1864) which have revolutionized the science of stock-
feeding. He concluded that a rational and economical
system of feeding farm stock required the following in-
formation; 'First, how much nitrogenous matter,
how much carbohydrate and fatty matter, and how
much mineral substance in a digestible form does
each kind of animal require, not only in its various
stages of growth, but also for every purpose it is
designed to answer? Second, how much of each of
these four groups of substances is present in a di-
gestible state in our various articles of fodder?' Aside
from his own contributions to this subject, Grou-
ven attempted to bring the valuable results of pre-
vious scientific research within reach of the practical
farmer.

Dr. Goessmann then explained the terms used in
reporting the results of his analysis of different kinds
of corn. All plants, including most of our common
articles of fodder, contain four groups of nutritive
compoimds: protein or nitrogenous substance, carbo-
hydrate or non-nitrogenous substance, fats, and min-
eral constituents. These are present in absolutely
and relatively varying quantities in each plant and
part of plant, and serve in absolutely and relatively
different proportions for the support of animal life.
The nutritive ratio of a fodder substance is the numer-
ical relation of its nitrogenous substance compared

56 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

with the sum of its non-nitrogenous digestible organic
constituents, fat included.

Then follows a detailed report of the analyses of
eleven varieties of corn, including analyses of different
parts of the corn plant. From these analyses and from
a knowledge of the conditions under which the differ-
ent samples were grown, he concludes that the differ-
ence in feeding value of the different samples is due as
much to the method of cultivation as to difference of
variety. The analyses indicate that the feeding value
of corn-cobs is equal to that of some grasses, and is
greater where the j&nal processes of growth are stopped
by the weather. They are especially valuable ground
with the corn kernel.

The paper ends with a brief description of the
method of making and feeding ensilage, together with
the analyses of several samples of com at the time of
putting into the silo and after fermentation.

IV. THE SYSTEM OF PRESERVING GREEN FOOD IN SILOS

(Agriculture of Massachusetts , 1880.) This paper
calls attention first to the fact that opposite views of
the value of the silo system are held, and explains this
as due to a misapprehension regarding the composition
and feeding value of the ensilage as compared with the
original green crop, and to a different basis for the
estimation of the economic points involved.

Goessmann then takes up the use of the silo system
in Europe. A general description of the method of
preserving green feeds in silos and the kinds of feeds
for which this treatment is recommended follows. The

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 57

success of the operation depends upon the dryness of
the pit in which the material is packed, the careful
packing down of the mass in the silo, especially along
the sides, and the keeping out of the air, particularly
during the earlier period of fermentation. During the
process of fermentation the green feed loses weight, due
to the loss of more or less organic matter and water.
Some of the starchy or saccharine substances are
changed to lactic acid, and sometimes to alcohols and
fatty acids. The nitrogen percentage is usually higher
than that of the green feed.

After this general discussion of the method, he de-
scribes a number of European experiments with ensil-
ing different crops, including clover, the leaves and tops
of beet-roots, and sugar-beet pulp and straw combined
with a green crop, giving in each case the chemical
changes which took place in the product.

From these examples he concludes: *That the silo
system furnishes no exception to the rule that our
practical modes of preserving fodder are accompanied
with a loss in quantity and quality of valuable plant
constituents, and that any attainable higher feeding
value is almost invariably secured at the sacrifice of
quantity. The question of waste is simply a matter of
degree when comparing existing modes of keeping fod-
der with that of the silo system.*

There are some advantages which the silo system
possesses over other systems. It is independent of the
weather. This is of particular importance in the case of
juicy plants. Exposure of green crops to rain, even for
a few days during hay-making, alters the quality of

58 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

the hay more than is conimonly supposed. Fodder
plants like clover lose largely in value during hay-
making, due to the loss of leaves. Both of these sources
of loss are avoided in the use of the silo. The quahty
and quantity of ensilage made with ordinary care suf-
fers mainly from but one thing, fermentation. Admit-
ting that this waste may be greater than that of any
mode of preserving fodder, there are some advantages
which ensilage possesses for which it is diflBcult to find
an exact numerical value as compared with dry fodder
of the same plant: namely, it increases the rate of
digestibility of otherwise indigestible parts of the
green fodder, thereby compensating somewhat for
the loss of valuable soluble organic matter; and the
ensilage of those crops for which the system is
recommended is almost invariably more acceptable
to animals than the dry fodder. The silo system is
not a substitute for existing modes of preserving
fodder, but will prove a most valuable assistance to
increase our chances of securing larger quantities of
good fodder.

V. THE INSPECTION OP COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS

Commercial fertiHzers began to attract attention in
the United States as early as 1853. In that year Sam-
uel W. Johnson published the now historic article on
Superphosphate of Lime.^ As chemist to the Connec-
ticut Agricultural Society from 1856 to 1861, and later
as chemist to the Connecticut State Board of Agricul-
ture, Johnson issued reports which included numerous

* Country Gentleman, March 1853.

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 59

analyses of commercial fertilizers then being sold in
that state.

As early as 1852 one notes references to the use of
Peruvian guano and superphosphate of lime in the
report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agricul-
tiu*e. In 1865 Dr. James R. Nichols,^ in an essay before
the State Board, discussed in an admirable way the
subject of plant-nutrition and made especial reference
to phosphate from bones, potash from ashes, and the
probabihty of plants taking their nitrogen from the air.
In 1868 Col. Mason C. Weld ^ delivered an address be-
fore the same society on Commercial Fertihzers, reflect-
ing the best knowledge of the day. He showed Peruvian
guano to be retailing for $62.50 a ton, superphosphate
of lime for ^55, ground bone and ground fish for $45,
nitrate of soda for $120, and sulphate of ammonia for
$170. He also stated that many brands of highly
recommended fertilizer mixtures were being offered for
sale and were generally purchased by the poorest farm-
ers, whereas in Europe such conditions were reversed.
Dr. Nichols' delivered another address before the
State Board in 1870, entitled * Manures, General and
Special.' He published a number of analyses made by
himself of ashes, fish, and several fertilizer mixtures,
and commented upon the high prices of many of these
substances and the frauds frequently practised. In
1871 another address by Nichols^ followed, entitled
*Food of Plants and Sources of Supply,* which was

* Agriculture of Massachusetts, Fourteenth Report, p. 228.
» Ibid., Sixteenth Report, p. 93.

» Ibid., Eighteenth Report, p. 179.

* Ibid., Nineteenth Report, p. 80.

60 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

discussed by different members of the Board and indi-
cated the interest then being taken in the subject of
commercial fertilizers in this state. In 1872 Andrew
H. Ward^ read a paper before the State Board on
* Manures and Fertilizers,' which caused consider-
able discussion by Col. William S. Clark and others,
and emphasized the uncertainty of our knowledge con-
cerning the value of commercial fertilizers in Massa-
chusetts markets, and the great need of a systematic
inspection.

Professor Goessmann, in the Tenth Report of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College (1872), presented
a very comprehensive unoflficial report on commercial
fertihzers, in which he summarized the knowledge on
plant-nutrition and the use of fertilizers then prevailing
in Europe, called attention to the imperative need of
a law governing the sale of fertilizers in Massachusetts,
and outlined the salient requirements of such a law.
He further presented a number of his own analyses of
the fertilizers found in the local markets, and discussed
their relative commercial values and selling prices. In
part n of this report he gave an excellent exposition
of the formation, composition, and value of the re-
cently discovered potash salts of Germany.

The first fertilizer law ^ in the United States requir-
ing an official inspection of fertilizers was passed by the

^ Agriculture of Massachusetts, Twentieth Report, p. 165.

' On February 5, 1873, it was voted by the State Board of Agriculture
'that Col. W. S. Clark, Professor Goessmann, and Secretary C. L. Flint
constitute a conunittee to appear before the legislature in behalf of a law
controlling the sale of fertilizers.' The records of the State Board fail to
give further information; one may conclude, however, that the law was the
result of the combined efforts of the above committee.

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 61

Massachusetts Legislature on May 26, 1873,^ to become
operative October 1 (Acts of 1873, Chapter 312). It
required all fertilizers sold in the state to have a guar-
antee of composition attached, and provided a penalty
for failure to do this. The execution of the law was
placed under the supervision of the State Board of
Agriculture, and the chemist of the Board was made
state inspector of fertilizers. The fee was fifteen dollars
for each analysis made, and was to be paid by the man-
ufacturer to the state inspector to cover the cost of
the inspection. The inspector was required to report
any violation of the act to the secretary of the Board,
who was empowered to institute legal proceedings.

Professor Goessmann, by virtue of his office, became
the inspector, and published his first report in the
twenty-first annual report of Agriculture of Massachu-
setts. Owing to the lateness of the season when the law
went into effect (October 1), the report was of neces-
sity limited in its scope. He reported the analysis and
discussed the value of Peruvian and fish guanos,
slaughter-house residues, superphosphates, sulphate of
ammonia, nitrate of soda, and German potash salts.
He advised the manufacturers to pay more attention
to their analytical statements, and particularly to im-
prove their methods of manufacture. In one of his
early reports is found the following statement: * These
identical articles cost the farmers . . . one-half more
than they ought to.' The inspection was transferred

* A preceding law enacted March 10, 1869 (Acta of 1869, Chapter 63),
required that all fertilizers be marked with the name of the manufacturer
and a statement of the analysis, and prescribed a fine for those violating
it. No official inspector waa appointed nor were funds provided for its
execution.

62 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

from the chemist of the Board in 1883 to the director
and chemist of the newly organized State Experiment
Station, of which he was the head. After the consoli-
dation of the state and Hatch stations in 1896, the
president of the College, as director of the combined
stations, became oflBcially the inspector, but the execu-
tion of the work was carried out by Professor Goess-
mann as chemist of the Station, and he continued it
until his retirement in 1907.

In the early years he made his own collection of
samples and performed much of the analytical work.
As the demands upon his time increased, he employed
as aids, both in collecting samples and as chemists,
recent graduates of the College who had been trained
under him, and it is recalled that in the summer of
1884 the writer made practically all of the nitrogen
determinations at the College laboratory by the old
soda-lime method, and at the end of each day carried
the bulbs containing the resulting chloride of ammonia
to the professor's private laboratory where the process
was completed by the professor himself.

The reports of the inspection issued by Professor
Goessmann from year to year grew in importance, and
were regarded by farmers as a strong bulwark of pro-
tection against misrepresentation and fraud. In fact,
the more progressive manufacturers soon recognized
the justice of his statements, endorsed the law, and
supported him in his work. One cannot estimate in
money the value of the services thus rendered to the
citizens of Massachusetts by Goessmann and his co-
workers. It has been said by educated men who pos-

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 63

sessed an intelligent grasp of the situation, that this
work alone was worth to the state the entire cost of the
Agricultural College.

VI. THE VALUE OF EARLY AMBER SORGHUM AS A
SUGAR PRODUCING PLANT

{Sixteenth Report of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1879.) This experiment was conducted to ascer-
tain the value of the Minnesota Early Amber Sorghum
upon the soil of Massachusetts. Seed was secured
through the United States Department of Agriculture,
and one acre was grown at the College and about
twenty acres in the vicinity. The apparatus used for
crushing and pressing the cane and evaporating the
juice was the same as that used in IVIinnesota. Only
such apparatus and methods were used as could be
employed by any intelligent farmer with a moderate
outlay of money.

Dr. Goessmann*s part in this experiment was to
study the changes which the cane undergoes during
the later period of its growth, in order to learn the time
when the sugar becomes more prominent in its juice;
to ascertain the rate at which this percentage increases,
and to determine the particular point in the ripening
process of the plant when the largest amount of sugar
is present; and to notice finally the changes which the
cane subsequently sustains in regard to the quantity
and quality of its saccharine matter.

The results obtained from the cane raised upon the
College farm led to the following conclusions: Grape
sugar appears at an early stage in the growth of the

64 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

plant, and increases to three or four per cent, before
the cane sugar is formed. The cane sugar is first notice-
able when the flower-stalks begin to be visible above
the leaves, and its amount increases until the seeds are
of full size but still soft. The relative proportion of
grape and cane sugars was generally about three to
seven. The better quality of the juice in the later life
of the plant is due rather to a loss of moisture than to
the continued formation of sugar. The cane sugar
changes gradually into grape sugar after the plants
are cut.

The best way to secure the full benefit of the crop for
syrup and sugar manufacture is to begin cutting when
the seeds are full-grown but still soft, and to grind
without delay. In the process of converting the juice
into syrup, the relative proportion of the cane sugar
and grape sugar was seriously altered, showing this
plant to be unsuitable for the production of sugar. The
average yield per acre was 160 to 170 gallons of syrup,
which was yellowish in colour and somewhat peculiar
in taste, though pleasant and quite generally liked.

Observations of the cane brought in from surround-
ing farms confirmed the conclusions drawn from the
examination of the cane from the College field. The
injurious changes which the cane undergoes after be-
ing cut were quite conspicuous. A trial made to see
whether it would be better economy to grind the cane
with the leaves or without, showed that the saving of
labour in the field by omitting the stripping did not
compensate for the loss suffered in the clogging of the
mill and the waste of juice when the leaves were left on.

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 65

There followed a comparison of the expenses and
returns in the case of the acre of the sorghum raised on
the College farm, from which the conclusion was drawn
that there should be a profit of $35 per acre. This sur-
plus might be increased by an improvement in the
yield which it would be possible to obtain, as in some
instances the yield had been as high as 240 gallons of
syrup per acre. He concludes : 'The presence of a large
amoimt of grape sugar in all the later stages of the
Early Amber, as well as of all other varieties of this
species, is a serious feature in the composition of the
juice, impairing greatly the chances for a copious sepa-
ration of the cane sugar by simple modes of treatment.
The necessity of applying more costly apparatus, and
engaging skilled labour to secure the larger portion of
the cane sugar, if once conceded, places the production
of dry sugar from sorghum beyond the scope of general
farm enterprise.'

The above conclusions have stood the test of time,
for further attempts to utilize this plant as a commer-
cial source of sugar have resulted in failure.

Vn. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CHEMISTRY OP FRUIT
CULTURE*

First Paper. (Agriculture of Massachusetts, 1879.)
Dr. Goessmann opens the paper with a few general
statements, bringing out the fact that the principles of
fertilization, which had been studied for some time in
the case of most of the farm crops, had not received
attention as applied to fruits. Neither the chemical

^ In co-operation with Samuel T. Maynard.

66 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

composition of the fruits themselves nor of the plants
was definitely known, nor had the efifect of different
fertiUzers been observed. Judging from past experi-
ence in general farm-management, it seemed wise to
assume that much benefit may accrue to fruit culture,
and horticulture generally, by studying the relations
which exist between the composition of the soil and
the ash constituents of the fruits grown upon it. Exper-
iments, therefore, were conducted with grapes in the
College vineyard, and the following subjects proposed
for careful analytical investigation : —

1. What are the chief characteristic organic and in-
organic constituents of the Concord grape as compared
with those of the wild varieties of Vitis labrusca (L.),
the vine from which the Concord originated?

2. To what extent is it possible to alter the quantity
and relative proportions of the ash constituents in the
fruit of both varieties; and, in case of such alterations,
what are the changes which are likely to result with
regard to their most characteristic organic constitu-
ents, such as sugar and acid?

He describes the method of carrying out the experi-
ment, and gives the detailed analysis of the juice, wood,
seed, skins, and pulp, stems and young branches. He
foimd that the application of potash and phosphoric
acid largely increased the amount of these two constit-
uents in the ash, and was accompanied by an increase
of sugar and a decrease of free acid.

Later, experiments were conducted in girdling vines,
to secure definite data regarding the best methods to
employ, and the effect of the practice on the vine and

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 67

fruit. The results of this investigation led to the fol-
lowing conclusions : —

The best results were secured when the cut was made
between July 1 and August 1, and kept open by a sec-
ond or third removal of the healing growth. If the first
cut is made at least one-half inch wide, this second or
third cutting may not be necessary, as it will not heal
over so rapidly. No change was noticed in the vine or
fruit below the point where the girdling took place.
Vines girdled two years before retained their vig-
our. The only permanent effect noticed was the earlier
ripening of the fruit from such vines. As the price
obtained from grapes early in the season is several
cents per pound higher than that received later, and
as the grapes matiu'ed some two weeks earlier on the
girdled vines, the practice was considered a profitable
one. The grapes showed an increase in size over those
grown on ungirdled vines, and were of practically the
same chemical composition.

Experiments conducted to determine which of the
buds — those nearest the main canes upon new wood,
those in the middle of the canes, or those at the ex-
tremities— would produce the best bunches of grapes,
showed that the bunches of grapes from the different
buds were of nearly the same size.

Second Paper. Exi>eriments with special fertilizers
in fruit culture. (Agriculture of Massachusetts , 1884.)
The paper begins with a short discussion of the desir-
abihty of studying the composition of fruits with a
view of ascertaining the relations existing between the

68 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

kind and amount of available plant-food in the soil,
and the relative and absolute quantity of the various
soil-elements contained in the fruit raised upon it. The
absolute amount of the mineral constituents in plants
of the same variety may differ widely without chang-
ing the character of the plants; but a change in the
relative proportion of the various mineral constituents
almost always affects the quantity of some of the
organic constituents, such as starch, sugar, acids, etc.
This fact would seem to show that each of the various
mineral constituents has a special function in the
growth of plants. 'The more we learn of the specific
functions of each essential mineral constituent of
plants, the better will we be prepared to perfect our
system of manuring; to cultivate with a view of devel-
oping desirable qualities in the crops, and to counter-
act the serious influence of an abnormal composition
of the sap on the health of plants.'

He further describes an experiment with currants
conducted at the College, in which these bushes, fertil-
ized in different ways and unfertilized, were compared.
From the analyses of the fruit it was evident that pot-
ash was the only ash constituent in which the soil was
deficient. The addition of this element in every in-
stance increased the percentage of potash in the fruit
as well as the amount of vegetable matter and sugar.
The colour of the berries was also improved. The in-
crease of potash in the currant was invariably accom-
panied by a corresponding decrease of phosphoric acid,
and of lime in particular, thus confirming his previous
observations with other fruits. The most striking

INVESTIGATIONS AT THE COLLEGE 69

alterations in the mineral constituents of the currant
were produced by muriate of potash.

In the same article he gave a brief summary of
his experience with the use of muriate of potash on
peach trees suffering from 'yellows.' He believed this
trouble to be due to an abnormal condition of the sap
in so far as its mineral constituents were concerned,
which resulted in the development of a fungous growth.
He found that the cells in the young branches of the
diseased trees contained an abnormally large amount
of phosphoric acid and lime; the application to the soil
of two to three pounds of muriate of potash per tree
for two or three seasons reduced the percentages of
these elements, and this reduction, together with judi-
cious pruning, restored the tree to a vigorous growth.

The details of this experiment are given in the Sec-
ond Report of the State Agricultural Experiment
Station,^ p. 105. The cause of peach yellows still re-
mains a mystery, according to William H. Taylor,
chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States
Department of Agriculture.

J. B. L.

* In oo-operation with David P. Penhallow.

CHAPTER V

THE EXPERIMENT STATION

By act of the Legislature, the Massachusetts State
Agricultural Experiment Station was established May
12, 1882, with a yearly grant of $5000 ^ for its main-
tenance, and Goessmann was made its Director and
Chemist. He had persistently advocated the desir-
ability of such an institution, and was exceedingly
gratified at the final realization of his hopes. As time
passed, his interest in the work of the Station increased
and he gradually turned his college work over to others.
Those who were associated with him in the early
eighties will remember how continuously he discussed
the present and future prospects of the Station.

He began at once to make plans for the future work
of the Station. The Cowls barn was remodelled and
fitted for the carrying on of experiments in feeding,
plats were laid out for field experiments, under the
supervision of Professor Manly Miles, and several
small rooms were set aside in the College Chemical
Laboratory for the chemical work of the Station. The
fittings and conveniences of the laboratory were of the
simplest kind, and office-room was not available.

The following principal fines of work were carried

* This amount was soon increased to $10,000 yearly, and later $500 were
added. The National Government added to this support by the Hatch and
Adams funds. It was not until 1913 that the State Legislatiure came to the
support, v.ith an additional grant of $5000 yearly for five years.

THK KXl'KKIMKNT STATION

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 71

out by Goessmann with the aid of assistants, mostly
graduates of the Massachusetts Agricultural College,
from the time he became director until he retired in
1907, and the results were published in the annual re-
ports of the Massachusetts State Agricultural Experi-
ment Station (1883-1894), and afterwards in the re-
ports of the Hatch Experiment Station, in which the
State Station was merged.

I. The free analyses of fertilizer mixtures, agricul-
tural chemicals, refuse materials and by-products suit-
able for fertilizing purposes, fodder-crops, concentrated
feeds, dairy products — particularly milk — and drink-
ing waters.

Goessmann desired to make the Station of service
to every one. He, therefore, accepted and had analyzed
all materials of an agricultural nature that in his judg-
ment would prove helpful to the citizens of the state.
He gave freely of his time to reporting the results of the
analyses and to answering all inquiries in his own hand-
writing; and one visiting him of an evening would find
him often in his little office at his home, laboriously
writing, with a pile of letters by his side. Even in his
later years he would not employ a stenographer. He
finally purchased a typewriter, and required one of the
assistant chemists to learn the art of tj'pewriting. He
would then state to the young man the gist of what he
wished to say in answer to letters received, and the
assistant would write out the letter in full on the type-
writer, to which Professor Goessmann appended his
signature.

72 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

n. The growing of soiling crops, the introduction of
new soiling crops, and practiced feeding experiments to
test their merits.

Goessmann was very much interested in animal
nutrition. He had studied thoroughly the works of
Grouven, Wolff, Henneberg, Stohmann, and their
pupils, and was anxious to try out and put in practice
their teachings. He recognized that the New England
pasture was rapidly becoming inferior, due to neglect
and to the oft-occurring summer droughts; and further
that the hay crop was likely to decrease in amount and
increase in price. In order to remedy these conditions
he advocated the growing of a variety of summer for-
age crops, especially the legumes. He experimented
with vetch, alfalfa, serradella, horse-beans, lupines,
cow-peas, soy beans, and many others of less economi-
cal importance, most of which were new to this country.
He also advised the growing of mixed fodder crops,
that is, the mixture of a non-legume with a legume,
recognizing that a larger yield frequently resulted than
when these two crops were grown separately. In his
judgment, a mixture of vetch and oats, and peas and
oats was a very satisfactory combination. Other green
crops which especially proved their worth from his
point of view, were the soy bean, the cow-pea, and the
serradella. He recognized in the lupines a valuable
plant for soil-renovation.

In looking over the results of his experiments with
green crops, one is impressed with the large variety
of plants that he brought together for trial. In the
writer's judgment, however, he did not succeed in

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 73

working out, or at least putting in workable form, a
complete system of soiling that would prove practicable
to the average farmer. Some of the crops which he
advocated, while they possessed a high nutritive value,
were too costly, because of the price of seed and labour
involved in cultivation, to warrant their general use on
the farm. At the same time, he brought to the attention
of the agriculturist, and illustrated, the value of sum-
mer soiling and the variety of fodder crops which
could be used to advantage for such a purpose.

m. Feeding experiments with milch cows.

A series of experiments, covering a period of five
years (1885-1889), were conducted to compare the
relative nutritive and economic values of such rough-
ages as English hay, com stover, com silage, sugar
beets, and carrots. The conclusions drawn were:

(a) The nutritive value of com stover on the basis of
dry organic matter compared well with an average
quality of English hay; the same may be said of good
com silage fed in place of one-half the customary
amount of hay.

(6) Carrots and sugar beets on the basis of dry
organic matter have exceeded in nutritive value a like
amount of silage when fed in place of one-half the
hay.

(c) Com silage and roots do best when fed in place
of one-fourth to one-half the full hay ration. About
25 pounds of roots daily, or from 35 to 40 pounds of
silage per day, with sufficient hay to satisfy the app>e-
tite, are about the correct proportions of roughage.

74 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

(d) DifiFerent rations appear to be without effect on
the chemical character of the milk, this being governed
by the constitutional characteristics of the animal.

(e) Milk is produced cheaper on com stover and on
silage than when hay constitutes the total roughage.

It must be remembered that Goessmann was quite
without practical experience in animal nutrition when
he began these experiments, and in the light of our
present knowledge and experience his methods of ex-
j>eriment would be considered crude. He was a pioneer ^
however, and in spite of the methods followed, the
above conclusions hold substantially true at the pres-
ent time.

A second series (1887-1892), comparing on the basis
of organic matter, green com, green vetch and oats,
peas and oats, cow-peas, soy beans, and serradella with
English hay, led him to conclude that *the nutritive
effect was very. satisfactory, for the animals without
exception maintained their original weight; the yield
of milk was in every instance somewhat raised, and
the quality of the milk was equal to the best as far as
one and the same animal was concerned.'

A third series with milch cows (1889-1892) was con-
ducted to study the comparative nutritive values of
such concentrates as new and old process linseed meals,
cottonseed meal, Chicago gluten meal, maize feed,
wheat bran, and corn meal. His conclusion was that
the feeding value of the five first-named feeds did not
vary greatly one from the other, but that the cost of
producing a definite amount of milk depended to an
extent upon the cost of these by-products, and particu-

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 75

larly upon the cost of the dififerent roughages with
which they were combined. He also called attention
to the increased value of the manure where nitroge-
nous concentrates were fed in place of com and other
cereals.

rV. Feeding experiments with pigs.

Beginning in 1884 and terminating in 1892, Goess-
mann carried on 17 different feeding experiments with
young pigs, to ascertain the best method of feeding,
the most suitable feed-stuffs to use, and the cost of
pork production. Usually six pigs were used in each
experiment. At first, he compared the relative nutri-
tive merits of skim milk and buttermilk, and found
that on the basis of dry matter they had substantially
equal nutritive values. Later, he investigated the most
suitable proportions to be used of com meal and skim
milk, and in case skim milk was in limited supply, he
endeavoured to find a suitable substitute in the form of
different grain mixtures.

He started with young pigs of from 20 to 30 pounds
in weight, and terminated the experiment when the
individual animals reached a weight of from 180 to 200
p)oimds. Skim milk was in fairly liberal supply in the
western counties of the state at the time, because of the
numerous co-operative creameries engaged in the man-
ufacture of butter.

As a result of these many exp>eriments he advised the
following combinations of milk and grain : —

76 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

I. WITH AN ABUNDANCE OP SKIM MILK

Live weight of animal

Com meal and sleim milk

Nutritive ratio

20 to 70 pounds

70 to 130 pounds

130 to 200 pounds

2 oz. meal to each quart of milk
4 oz. meal to each quart of milk
6 oz. meal to each quart of milk

1:3

1:4
1:5

ii. with milk in limited supply (4 to 5 quarts

daily)

Same proportions of meal and milk as in I, and a combination of grain
in different proportions to satisfy appetites as follows: —

Live weight of animxil

Grain mixture (by weight) to
supplement meal and milk

Gluten meal

Wheat bran

Corn meal

20 to 70 pounds

2
1
1

1

1
1

I

70 to 130 pounds

1

130 to 200 pounds

2

He fed rations with a narrow nutritive ratio at first,
when the young animal was in need of the largest pro-
portion of nitrogenous matter, increasing the carbo-
hydrates as the animal grew. A ration with a too nar-
row ratio after the animals have reached 100 pounds
in weight retarded growth. He found it to be poor
economy to keep the pig after it has reached a weight
of 200 pounds. After that time the food-cost of a pound
of growth was in excess of its usual market value. He
presented very elaborate tables, showing the total
amoimts of feed consumed by each pig, the total dry

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 77

matter in the feed, gain in live weight, shrinkage in
dressing, the amount of dry matter required to pro-
duce a pound of dressed weight, and the food-cost of a
pound of hve and dressed weight. The results of these
various experiments with 140 pigs, and a number of
later ones made by the writer, have been summarized
by him in the Eleventh Report of the Hatch Experiment
Station, pages 36-42.

V. Feeding experiments with steers (1889-1894).

Professor Goessmann undertook a series of experi-
ments with grade Shorthorn steers to ascertain (a) the
most suitable fodder rations; (6) the cost of beef pro-
duction in New England; (c) the average daily gain in
live weight; and {d) to compare the relative merits of
summer soiling versus pasture.

The steers were, in some cases, sent to what was
termed good pasture, and in other cases, soiled. Dur-
ing the seven autumn, winter, and spring months they
were fed on corn fodder, corn silage, hay, and a variety
of grains and by-products. In the writer's judgment
the steers were not ideal ones for beef-production, al-
though they were the best that could be found in the
local markets. Well-bred blocky steers probably would
have given rather better returns for the food con-
sumed.

The results of these experiments are briefly stated : —

(a) The most economical coarse fodders consisted
of com fodder, corn silage, some corn stover, and mini-
mum amounts of hay. The grains used at different
times were wheat bran, cottonseed meal, gluten meal,

78 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

gluten feed, and linseed meal, selected naturally with
reference to their market cost.

(6) The food-cost of producing a pound of live weight
was 10.58 cents. The original cost of the steers and
the total cost of food consumed was $817.50, and the
selling price of the steers $460.91, leaving a loss
of $356.59. A reasonable allowance for the manure
would have been $161.00, still leaving a deficit of
$195.59.

(c) The average daily gain in live weight for all
steers was 1.24 pounds.

(d) In the case of the steers at pasture, the average
daily gain was .63 pound, and in the case of the steers
that were soiled 1.63 pounds. The steers made very
poor gains at pasture, and it seemed evident that in
order to secure satisfactory results ordinary pasturage
must be supplemented with some roughage or grain.
In spite of the additional daily gain when a system
of entire soiling was followed, the cost of this method
is likely to be prohibitive from the standpoint of
economy.

VI. Feeding experiments with lambs (1890-1893).

Three experiments were conducted with 18 lambs
dropped in the spring, and fed during the following
winter and early spring months. Observations were
made on the most suitable roughage and grains, and
on combinations of the same for growth and economy.

The results secured were much the same as those
secured for steers. The same feeds and feed combina-
tions as fed to steers produced essentially the same

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 79

results when fed to lambs. The cost of the sheep and
food at market rates, including a liberal valuation of
the manure, about equalled the selling price of the
lambs. It is probable that, figured at present prices,
the returns would be more favourable. At that time,
however, there did not seem to be any direct profit in
growing yearling lambs. The only advantage seemed
to be the selling of roughage at market rates and the
securing of a valuable manure for crop production.
The data secured by Goessmann were interesting and
valuable.

Vn. Fodder com raised upon worn-out meadow lands
partly fertilized with one or two special articles of plant-
food and partly without the use of any manurial matter
(1883-1888).

The object of this experiment was to ascertain if
land that had been for a long time cropped with grass
and com — the usual method of rotation practised by
many farmers at the time — was suffering from general
or special exhaustion. The one and one-tenth acres
used for this purpose were divided into one-tenth acre
plats and known as Field A. During 1883 and 1884 the
land was planted with com without the application of
any forai of plant-food, and showed unmistakably pro-
nounced evidence of general or special exhaustion.
Beginning in 1885, different single articles of plant-
food were applied — nitrate of soda, ammonium sul-
phate, dried blood, dissolved boneblack, muriate of
potash, and sulphate of p>otash-magnesia. There were
three nothing plats and one fallow plat. At the close

80 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

of the experiment in 1888, the following facts were
clearly in evidence: —

(1) The soil was found to be especially deficient in
available potash as a result of the continued close rota-
tion of grasses and corn.

(2) The plats to which potash only was applied re-
sponded readily with increased yields. After three
years these plats began to show a decided shrinkage in
crop-production and more complete fertilizers were
needed to maintain the yield.

(3) Allowing land to be fallow does not materially
benefit its productiveness, and should be discour-
aged. (Photographs of the yield on the different plats
appear in the sixth report of the Station.) The
above experiment was considered at the time a very
striking illustration of the exhaustion of available
soil potash by the continued cropping with grass and
com.

Vin. Field experiments to compare the influence of an
addition of nitrogen in different combinations to the soil
under cultivation on the general character of the crop and
the annual yield (1889-1892).

The same field (A) which was used for the previously
described experiment was employed in the present
case. All of the 11 plats received an equal amount of
potash in the form of muriate or double sulphate of
potash and magnesia, and of phosphoric acid as dis-
solved boneblack. The nitrogen was supplied in the
forms of barnyard manure, nitrate of soda, sulphate of
ammonia, and dried blood. Three plats did not re-

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 81

ceive nitrogen in any form. The crops grown were
com, oats, rye, and soy beans.

The results of four years' observation showed quite
clearly that the application of some form of nitrogen
was necessary in order to secure remunerative crops.
Even soy beans, a nitrogen gatherer, did not take suffi-
cient air nitrogen to produce a normal yield. The fal-
low plat, after several years' cultivation, was still be-
hind the other plats in crop yield. Beginning with
1893, and continuing through 1896, a legume (soy
beans) was alternated with a non-legume (oats), to
note if the frequent cultivation of a legume would
gradually increase the available nitrogen in the soil so
that it would not be necessary to apply fertilizer nitro-
gen. At the close of the experiment in 1896 it was
observed that the 'introduction of an annual legumi-
nous crop into our rotation had somewhat reduced the
difference in yield between the plats receiving no nitro-
gen and those receiving it, yet had not entirely oblit-
erated it.' The plats at that time which had not re-
ceived any nitrogen proved one-seventh to one-eighth
less productive than the others. After 1896 advancing
years made it necessary for Professor Goessmann to
discontinue his field experiments. This experiment
was continued by Brooks, and further information
will be found in the ninth and later reports of the
Hatch Experiment Station.

IX. Experiments with potatoes (1884-1888).
This experiment was undertaken originally for the
purpK)se of studying the effect of muriate and double

82 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

sulphate of potash-magnesia on the quantity and qual-
ity of potatoes. Before the experiment had been in
progress long, a scabby condition of the crop resulted,
which led to a study of the cause of this trouble. Goess-
mann states that 'neither a liberal use of our own mix-
ture of commercial manurial substances rich in potash
compounds nor the selection of a fair quality of seed
potatoes from another locality had affected our results;
. . . for the entire crop with scarcely any exception was
badly disfigured by scab.* The conclusions were as
follows : —

(1) Medium-sized whole potatoes give better results
as far as a large-sized marketable crop is concerned
than half potatoes obtained from tubers of a corre-
sponding size.

(2) The sulphate of potash produced better results
than muriate of potash.

(3) Some peculiar condition of the soil is considered
the real cause of the scabby condition. (Photographs
of the scabby potatoes are given in the sixth report of
the Station, page 131.)

It is evident that this scabby condition seriously
interfered with the experiment as originally planned.
It led to observations on the cause of the scab, and to
the conclusion that the seat of the trouble lay in the
soil. Later investigations by botanists showed it to be
a parasitic organism.

X. Experiment with root crops (1887-1888).
A brief discussion is given of the general character of
roots and their place in the farm economy. Seed was

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 83

obtained from the United States Department of Agri-
culture, of several varieties of mangolds, sugar beets,
turnips, and carrots. They were grown upon the Sta-
tion grounds, observations recorded of the methods of
cultivation, photographs taken and published of the
more promising varieties, and detailed chemical analy-
ses were made and published.

XI. Experiments to study the economy of using differ-
ent commercial sources of phosphoric acid for manurial
purposes in farm practice (1890-1897).^

The soil had been in grass for a long time, and its
supply of available plant-food had become greatly
reduced. During 1887-1888-1889 it was planted with
crops to still further exhaust the phosphoric acid. The
field was divided into five plats, a definite amount of
the same form of nitrogen and potash added, and five
different sources of phosphoric acid applied on the
basis of their market value, namely, 127 pounds of
basic slag, 128 pounds of Mona guano, 304 pounds of
apatite,^ 131 pounds of South Carolina phosphate, and
78 pounds of dissolved boneblack. On the basis of one
acre, such applications were at the rate of 850 pounds
for slag, Mona guano, and South Carolina phosphate,
2000 pounds of apatite, and 500 pounds of boneblack.
In 1894 and thereafter the phosphoric acid application

^ Goessmann discontinued this work with the season of 1896, and it was
brought to a conclusion in 1901 by Brooks.

* In 1891, apatite could not be secured, hence phosphoric acid was not
applied to this plat. In 1892, 129 pounds of Florida bard phosphate were
substituted — equal to 850 pounds per acre. It could not be considered
fair to this phosphate to compare it with others which bad been applied
two years longer.

84 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

was omitted in order to get the residual effect, while
the supply of nitrogen and potash was increased one-
half.

The crops and yields in the several years were as
follows in pounds: —

1890

1891

1892

1893

1894

1895

1896

Fertilizer

1

1

11

O

1

a

1

g

Basic slag

1600
1415
1500
1830
2120

380
340
215
380
405

4070
3410
2750
3110
2920

1660
1381
1347
1469
1322

490
405
290
460
390

695
630
383
759
625

254

Mona guano

Florida phosphate. . .

S.C. phosphate

Dis. boneblack

233

262
252

247

TOTAL PHOSPHORIC ACID ADDED AND REMOVED

1890-1896

Fertilizer

Amount

added

(pounds)

Amount
removed
(pounds)

Per cent
removed
(pounds)

Basic slag

96.72

72.04

165.70

144.48

49.36

31.11

27.81
23.98
29.46

27.57

32.17

Mona guano

38.60

Florida phosphate

14.47

S.C. phosphate

20.39

Dis. boneblack

55.85

As a result of these observations Goessmann con-
cluded that for the first two years the dissolved bone-
black led, while afterwards the insoluble phosphates
were ahead in the following order: basic slag, South
Carolina phosphate, and Mona guano.

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 85

On the basis of money value, Goessmann's conclu-
sions appear correct; on the basis of phosphoric acid
applied and removed, it is shown by the preceding
table that dissolved boneblack led, followed by Mona
guano, basic slag. South Carolina phosphate, and
Florida phosphate. Brooks sowed Swedish turnips in
1897, and found that the Mona guano produced by
far the largest yield.

It may be remarked that this experiment was faulty
in that (a) no check plat or plats were included from
which the phosphoric acid had been omitted; (6) the
ceasing to apply the various phosphates after 1894 was
unfair to the dissolved boneblack when the results are
based upon crop-yield, it being necessary in order to
secure the best returns to apply relatively small
amounts of the soluble phosphates each year; (c) the
application of definite amounts of phosphoric acid as
above stated would have been preferable to money
value in judging the relative effects of the several
forms as sources of plant-food.

Xn. Experiments vntk grass-lands to determine the
effects of different forms of plant-food on permanent
meadows (1889-1895).

The moist meadow on the east side of the county
road was underdrained and divided into four plats.
Plat I contained 1.92 acres; Plat II, 1.92 acres; Plat
m, 2.41 acres; and Plat IV, 3 acres.

The first two plats received barnyard manure at
first in different amounts, to ascertain its limit of
usefulness. In 1892 Plat I received at the rate of

86 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

8 tons and Plat U at the rate of 6 tons of manure
per acre.

Plat III received 600 pounds of fine ground bone and
200 pounds of muriate of potash per acre.

Plat IV received one ton of Canada ashes per
acre.

In 1893, Plats I and U were combined and used as
one plat. Beginning with this year also a system of
rotation in manuring was instituted, Plats I and H
receiving wood ashes, Plat IH barnyard manure, and
Plat IV bone and potash. This same system was con-
tinued in 1894. In 1895, another rotation of the same
manures was instituted. At the close of this year Plat
I, which had received manure for most of the time, had
averaged at the rate of 3.56 tons; Plat HI, 3.25 tons;
and Plat IV, 2.90 tons of hay to the acre. These experi-
ments were continued by Brooks. After the plats had
been in grass ten years. Brooks stated that since 1893,
during the continuance of the rotation system of
manuring, the field had averaged 3.4 tons of hay and
rowen per acre. The plats when dressed with manure
averaged 3.6 tons, with bone and potash 3.33 tons, and
with ashes 3.27 tons per acre. Brooks further says that
*this system of using these different manures for grass
lands in rotation has much to commend it. It is
simple and has given remarkably good crops.' The
writer remarks that it shows what natural grass-land
can be made to produce when fairly well fertilized each
year. Moisture and plant-food are the controlling fac-
tors in hay production.

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 87

Xm. Field experiTtients regarding the effect of differ-
ent combinations of commercial fertilizer on the yield of
some prominent garden crops (1892-1897) .

Six plats of one-eighth of an acre each, known as
Field C (each 88 x 62 ft.), were laid out and treated with
50 pounds of phosphoric acid in the form of dissolved
boneblack, 60 pounds of nitrogen in the forms of ni-
trate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, or dried blood, and
120 pounds of potash in the fonn of muriate or high-
grade sulphate.

The object of the experiment was to test dried blood,
nitrate of soda, and sulphate of ammonia, combined
with muriate of potash and high-grade sulphate of
potash.

A number of rows of each of the following crops
were planted on each plat during the several years :
celery, lettuce, spinach, beets, cabbages, tomatoes,
potatoes, beans, onions, com. In 1894-1895-1896,
onions, sweet com, beans, and tomatoes constituted
the crops grown.

As a result of his observ^ations through 1896, he
draws the following conclusions : —

(1) Sulphate of potash, with nitrate of soda, has
given in every case (excepting onions) the best results.

(2) Nitrate of soda as a nitrogen source has yielded
in almost every case, without reference to the source of
potash, the best results.

(3) Sulphate of ammonia and muriate of potash have
given, as a rule, the least satisfactory results. The fact
is due evidently to the change of chloride of potash
and sulphate of ammonia into sulphate of potash and

88 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

chloride of ammonia, the latter being an unfavourable
form of nitrogen plant-food. The above was not posi-
tively demonstrated but only assumed. It may have
been the case, however.

(4) The influence of the weather, particularly the
rainfall . . . has been greater than that of the different
fertilizers upon the different plats during the same
season. It was evident that the lack of moisture played
a very important role in the yield of the several crops.
This experiment was continued on the above plan
through 1897, by Brooks, who drew substantially simi-
lar conclusions to the above. Beginning with 1898, it
was modified. (Eleventh Report of the Hatch Experi-
ment Station, page 67.)

XIV. Field experiments to compare the effect of ham-
yard manure with Canada ashes and mixtures of com-
mercial fertilizing materials on farm crops (1888-1894).

The land for this experiment was situated east of the
county road, bounded on the north by * Lovers' Lane,*
so-called, and on the east by woods. It was to the east
of the meadow used for experiments with grass. Five
plats of substantially nine-tenths of an acre each were
used, divided by strips 14 feet wide. The land had been
in grass previously, but in 1888 was ploughed and fer-
tilized with ashes. The only difference in the treatment
of the five plats consisted in supplying different forms
of plant-food as follows:

Plat I — 10 tons barnyard manure per acre,

Plat n — 1 ton Canada ashes per acre.

Plat III — without fertilizer.

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Plat IV — 600 lbs. ground bone and 200 lbs. muriate

of potash per acre,
Plat V — 600 lbs. ground bone and 400 lbs. double
sulphate of potash-magnesia per
acre.
The following crops were grown during the several
years: barley, oats, dent corn, vetch and oats, Scotch
tares, soy beans, Canada peas, and oats. Several crops
were planted as a part of the same plat in each year,
the conditions on all of the plats being uniform.

As a result of these observations, the following gen-
eral deductions were drawn: —

(1) In 1890 the effect of bone and different forms of
potash compared very well with stable manure, as did
also Canada ashes. Part of this favourable effect Goess-
mann ascribes to the organic matter in the soil derived
from the sod turned under in 1888.

(2) Sulphate of potash-magnesia has given rather
better results than the muriate with legumes.

(3) The yield of the unfertilized plat in 1891 showed
a noticeable decline as compared with the fertilized
plats (one- third less).

(4) Seeding in drills in all cases gave a larger yield of
grain than seeding broadcast.

(5) Muriate of potash seems to produce larger yield
in case of grain crop.

(6) Soy beans should be planted in drills, otherwise
they are interfered with by weeds.

(7) Vetch and oats yield larger crops earlier in the
season than soy beans. They also yield a larger crop
of dry fodder for winter use.

90 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

(8) Both vetch and oats and soy beans make a valu-
able ensilage. Two parts, by weight, of corn and one
part of beans are desirable proportions.

In 1890 Goessniann began to set out the above five
plats to fruit trees — apples, pears, and peaches.
Plums were added in 1893, and in the autumn of that
year the plats were seeded to rye and grass. After that,
these plats were treated as an orchard. The experi-
ment was continued by Brooks, and eventually the
apple trees only were allowed to remain. The apple
trees are now full grown, and the experiment has
yielded valuable information which has been reported
by Brooks in the later reports of this Station.

XV. Field experiments with tobacco in Massachusetts.
(Bulletin No. 47, Hatch Experiment Station, 1893-
1896.)

These experiments were carried on in Hatfield, West-
field, and Agawam in co-operation with the so-called
Valley Tobacco Experiment Association. Expert to-
bacco-growers had special supervision of the experi-
ments in each of the three towns. Twelve plats, each
one-twentieth of an acre, which were laid out by a
representative of the Station, served for the trial.
Potassium oxide was applied at the rate of 300
pounds, available phosphoric acid 60 pounds, and
nitrogen 100 pounds to the acre. One-fourth of the
nitrogen was in the form of nitrate of soda and
potash.

The crop was cut, housed, and stripped under expert
supervision.

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 91

Among the many conclusions drawn may be men-
tioned the following: —

(1) A careless use of cultivator or hoe checks growth
of plants and modifies their structure and general
character.

(2) Different fertilizer combinations have had less
effect upon the quantity than upon the quality of
the crop. New land naturally suited to tobacco
and cropped for a number of years to exhaust the
available plant-food, served much better for the
experiment than land upon which tobacco had been
continuously grown and which had been heavily
fertilized.

(3) Cottonseed and linseed meals and castor pomace
all proved equally desirable sources of nitrogen when
used in connexion with nitrate of soda or potash.

(4) Nitrate of soda, used together with acid phos-
phate or dissolved boneblack, proved more satisfactory
than nitrate of potash.

(5) Cottonseed hull ashes and high-grade sulphate
of potash proved the most valuable potash sources,
the former being preferred in most cases. Nitrate
of potash was very satisfactory when used in com-
bination with an alkaline phosphate such as basic
slag or with carbonate of potash-magnesia. Sul-
phate of potash-magnesia did not give satisfactory
results.

Other interesting observations concerning the prob-
able effect of fertilizers on colour of ash, observations
with barnyard manure, etc., will be found in the
bulletin.

92 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

XVI. Compilaiion of tables of analyses of fertilizer
chemicals and fertilizer by-products, cattle feeds, dairy
products, and fruits.

The chemists of the Experiment Station were always
busy, and as time passed a very large nimiber of anal-
yses accumulated. In 1887, in order to make them
more readily available, Goessmann made his first tabu-
lation, which included all analyses made since 1868.
These compilations have been continued by the writer
and his co-workers with such modifications and en-
largements as circimistances advised.

XVII. Water analyses.

Free analyses of drinking water were made as early
as 1883. In the second report of the Station he dwelt
upon the importance of pure water upon the farm.
The analyses made from year to year indicated fre-
quent contamination, both from sewage and from the
use of lead pipe. Each year a large mmaber of samples
were received from different citizens of the state, and
in 1903, because of an abuse of the privilege, a small
charge for an analysis was imposed and the water was
required to be shipped in containers supplied by the
Station.

XVm. Meteorology.

Beginning in 1883, a systematic record was kept of
the weather, including temperature, wind, humidity,
and rainfall. One of the assistant chemists was espe-
cially charged with this work. In his first report he says :
'The importance of meteorological data in connexion

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 93

with observations upon plants and animals is apparent
to all. No conclusions are firmly grounded until the
conditions of temperature, moisture, and sunlight have
been duly considered.' Similar or more complete ob-
servations were continued after the Massachusetts
Station was merged in the Hatch Station.

XIX. Miscellaneous work.

In addition to the work already reviewed, many
other experiments were made and reported which were
of value at the time. Among these may be mentioned
temperature conditions in the silo for several weeks
after filling, a continuation of his observations on the
effect of different forms of potash in fruit-culture, a
study of the conditions in two local creameries, and the
composition of the milk of different breeds of cows.

As a conclusion to the brief review of the scientific
papers and the experiments undertaken by Goessmann
from the beginning of his connexion with the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College in 1868 until his retire-
ment in 1907, one cannot fail to be impressed with the
wonderful energy displayed by him. He was not a
rapid worker, but he succeeded in accomplishing much
because of his steady and long-continued application.
He took comparatively few vacations. He possessed a
strong constitution and a phlegmatic temperament.
His pleasant home life, together with his garden, his
shrubbery and trees, were his constant sources of
recreation and enjoyment. Vacations were to hira in
reality more a duty than a pleasure. He did practically

94 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

no chemical work himself after he became director of
the Station, devoting all his time to executive work,
including correspondence, and particularly to study-
ing the work of foreign investigators.

While he did not possess any practical agricultural
experience previous to coming to Massachusetts, he
studied thoroughly the agricultural conditions of the
state in order to see just how the College and Experi-
ment Station could be of most use to the farming in-
terests. In all his lines of work, his aim seemed to be
not so much to study fundamental problems in agricul-
tural chemistry as to show how chemistry could be
applied to help improve farm operations.

Thus, in animal nutrition he endeavoured to illus-
trate the need of a greater diversity of coarse fodders,
and the special value of the legumes; to show by actual
feeding trials the value of the rapidly increasing num-
ber of concentrated protein by-products. In his feed-
ing trials with pigs, steers, and sheep, his object was to
show the farmer how best to utilize the by-products of
the dairy and the roughages of the farm in order to
produce pork, beef, and mutton with the greatest
economy. In addition to applying the principles of
animal nutrition as they were known, his constant
thought was that of economy in the feeding of ani-
mals, the getting of data that would show the farmer
the cost of producing a definite amount of animal
products.

In experiments in the field his object was first to
secure data on the general chemical composition of
different soils; to note if a failure to produce crops was

THE EXPERIMENT STATION 95

due to general or special depletion of fertility; to ob-
serve the relative values of different forms of the most
important elements of plant-food and their effect in
improving the growth of different farm crops. For
example, he sought to ascertain the value of different
forms of phosphoric acid, nitrogen, and potash, and
their specific effects on the yield and, whenever pos-
sible, upon the quality of fodder crops, vegetables, and
fruits.

He used the chemical laboratory, not so much to
study fundamental chemical problems, as to ascertain
the proximate chemical composition of soils, of ferti-
lizers and by-products having a manurial value, of
cattle feeds, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables.
Such data were very scanty at the time and it was
necessary to secure them as a basis for future work.

In addition to descriptions of his own experiments,
one finds in the various reports of the Experiment
Station brief papers explaining the scientific principles
underlying the subject. He had read thoroughly the
works of the German, French, and English investiga-
tors, and he was thus able to present to his readers
the most advanced views of the day on the problem
under consideration.

One can readily see that the many practical prob-
lems confronting him on every side, together with the
lack of appreciation of strictly scientific inquiry by
many of the farmers of the day, prevented him from
undertaking any very fundamental research work. He
was of necessity a pioneer in the cause of agricultural
investigation. If, at the present time, at the age of

96 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

thirty, he had come to this country with a relatively
similar training to that which he possessed in 1857, he
undoubtedly would have attacked and solved some of
the more intricate agricultural problems now con-
fronting us. He was contemporary with Hilgard of
California, Johnson of Connecticut, Cook of New
Jersey, and Kedzie of Michigan, all of whom greatly
widened the horizon and enriched our knowledge of
agricultural science and practice.

J. B. L.

CHAPTER VI

LATER YEARS

On the 28th of July 1880, Dr. Goessmann attended
a convention of the leading agricultural chemists of
the country at Washington. At this gathering he of-
fered the following resolution, which was adopted : —
'Resolved, That this Convention form a section in the
subdivision of Chemistry of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and that the next
meeting be held in Boston, during the regular meeting
of the aforesaid Association.' A permanent organiza-
tion was then effected under the name of the Associa-
tion of Agricultural Chemists,^ and Dr. Goessmann
was made chairman. Goessmann's reputation as a
technical and agricultural chemist had long been
firmly established, and his election to this office was a
fitting recognition of his services and contributions to
those branches of chemical science. Earlier in the year
he had been unanimously elected State Chemist of
North Carolina, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of Dr. Albert R. Ledoux. This position,
however, he had declined.

In 1881 and 1882 he served as a member of the com-
mittee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences
to investigate and report on the scientific and economic

* Reorganized, September 8, 1884, as the Association of OflBcial Agricul-
tural Chemists of the United States.

98 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

relations of the sorghum-sugar industry in the United
States. Averse to controversy, and rather than risk
being entangled in disputes, — so little to his taste, —
he finally withdrew from the committee. From 1883
to 1904 he was analyst to the State Board of Health of
Massachusetts, and from 1886 until his death chemist
to the Bay State Agricultural Society.

He was a member of several of the leading scientific
societies and academies, both at home and abroad.
Some of these have already been mentioned and others
will be found in the Chronology. In 1865 he was
elected a corresponding member of the New York
Academy of Sciences. In 1869 he joined the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and in
1875 was elected a fellow. One of the original mem-
bers of the American Chemical Society, founded in
1876, he was a vice-president in 1877, and again in
1881 and 1882. In 1887 he succeeded Dr. Albert B.
Prescott as president. In 1880 he was one of a com-
mittee of three appointed to represent the Society at
the centennial celebration of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences. He was also a member of the
general committee of arrangements for the twenty-
fifth anniversary celebration of the Chemical Society
in 1901.

Goessmann was one of the twelve scientists who, at
a meeting held in Boston in April 1880, organized the
Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. In
1893 he was a member of the Advisory Council on
Chemistry of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the
Columbian Exposition, and was invited to address the

LATER YEARS 99

Congress of Chemists at Chicago on salt, on methods of
teaching or demonstrating chemistry, and on the prog-
ress of chemistry as applied to agriculture. In 1889
Amherst College conferred upon him the degree of
Doctor of Laws.

He was a frequent lecturer before the state boards of
agriculture and the various agricultural and horticul-
tural societies, and read papers at the meetings of the
American Chemical Society and other scientific bodies.
For upwards of thirty years he was a constant attend-
ant at the gatherings of the Massachusetts State
Board of Agriculture and the most constant contribu-
tor to its reports. He lectured before the Board 'on
salt and its uses in agriculture'; 'on nitrogen plant-
food'; 'on the subduing and utilizing of salt-marshes
for tillage'; 'on plant and animal nutrition'; 'on the
chemistry of fruit culture'; 'on the cultivation of the
sugar-beet'; 'on the effect of chemical salts on the
carbohydrate content of plants'; 'on the system of
preserving green food in silos'; 'on mineral constitu-
ents in plant-growth'; 'on the influence of chemistry
in the development of a rational system of stock-
feeding'; 'on the rotation of crops'; 'on rational fer-
tilization of garden crops and fruits'; 'on the hay-field
and English hay'; 'on the breeding and feeding of
swine'; and 'on the grass crop.'

On November 12, 1898, a notable dinner was given
at the Metropolitan Club in New York, for Gottingen
students of 1855-56, with some of earlier and later
dates, the hosts being Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Profes-
sor Charles F. Chandler, and ^L*. James D. Hague.

100 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSIVIANN

Dr. Goessmann attended this 'Reunion of Compan-
ions at Gottingen,' and was one of the speakers. At
this interesting gathering were many of his old pupils
and friends, including Caldwell, Chandler, J. H. East-
wick, Hague, Hungerford, Magee, Mallet, and Tuttle.
Of the ten whose names are inscribed on the balance
presented to him in 1855-56, six of the seven then liv-
ing were present. Dean, Nason, and Pugh had passed
away.

In August 1899 Dr. Goessmann, accompanied by his
wife and daughters, revisited the Fatherland after an
absence of more than forty years, remaining abroad
until the following summer. This was his first vacation
for thirty years, or since the call to Amherst in 1868.
He went also as an honorary representative of the
United States Department of Agriculture, to investi-
gate the condition of the beet-sugar industry in the
German Empire. He was hkewise a delegate of the
American Chemical Society to the unveiling of the
statue of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier in Paris. He
went, however, with the intention of doing but little
scientific work, and finding pleasure among friends old
and new.

He spent nine delightful weeks in Gottingen, making
various excursions in the neighbourhood, especially to
beet-sugar factories and beet-raising farms. With the
professors he had much pleasant intercourse, among
others his old colleague Friedrich Griepenkerl, then
dean of the philosophical faculty. He enjoyed also the
hospitality of the Fraulein Helena and Sophia Woh-
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passed since he matriculated as a student of phar-
macy and chemistry in the philosophical faculty of the
University of Georgia Augusta, and forty-eight since
he took his degree as Doctor of Philosophy. It is the
German custom to renew that degree for those that
survive fifty years. To him those weeks at Gottingen
were an occasion of quiet rejoicing, and he often re-
ferred to * Gottingen revisited ' as his Jubikeum.

From Gottingen he wrote : —

*In looking over the collections of inorganic and
organic chemical preparations in the chemical labora-
tory my attention was repeatedly called to samples
familiar to me from the time when acting as assistant
to Wohler. It seemed to give special satisfaction to
the janitor, who served as a youthful janitor in my
time, to point out to me specimens marked in my
handwriting.'

He returned to America the following June, and was
soon again occupied with his work, aware that the
students, whom he had gathered about him and
trained, were capable of taking up the lines whenever
he should lay them down. He continued to supervise
the chemical work of the Experiment Station until
July 1907, when he was made Consulting Chemical
Expert and retired on a pension granted by the Trus-
tees of the Carnegie Foundation. In 1908 he became
Professor Emeritus.

On his eightieth birthday, which marked the com-
pletion of fifty years residence in the United States and
forty years of service at the College, his former stu-
dents far and near united to honour him. At the

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Alumni dinner in Draper Hall, on June 17, 1907, he
was presented with a highly decorated stained window,
to be hung in his study, on which is written: —

To
KA.RL ANTON GOESSMANN

of Naumburg Fritzlar and Grottingen

Chemist Teacher Philosopher

this testimonial

commemorative of forty years of loyal and fruitful service

at the Massachusetts Agricultural College

is presented by his pupils

on his 80th birthday

13 June 1907

As reminders of the old home places, the armorial
bearings of Fulda, Fritzlar, and Gottingen are em-
blazoned, quartered, on one shield; the silver cross of
the old arms of Fulda and the lilies of the new; the
cross and wheels of Fritzlar and the towers of Gottin-
gen. The seal of the University of Gottingen is on the
right, with Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom, her back
toward the spear and the shield bearing the masque of
war and facing the emblems of peace — the olive-
branch and the open book. The German chevron is
depicted in red, white, and black — the royal and im-
perial colours. The background shows the Hanoverian
colour — yellow — which also is that of the Univer-
sity. Below are the emblems of the chemist, the flames
of his fire surrounding a Hessian crucible, a retort in
ancient form, a blowpipe, assayer's tongs, and before
the furnace are test tubes. The blue and the green of
the Wistaria are interspersed with the foliage of the
Arackis or peanut plant and the yellow of its flower, to

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recall one of his earlier investigations. While at Got-
tingen he studied the oil of the peanut, the fruit of
Arachis hypogaea, in which he found two acids until
then unknown, and which he named ' arachic acid ' and
'hypogaeic acid' respectively. The luxuriant growth
of these vines symbolizes the rich harvest due to his
labours with fertilizers. And above is written the old
Gottingen motto, *Die Gottinger haben den Muth' (the
Gottingers have courage). The expression originated
at the time when the inhabitants of the walled town
successively and successfully repulsed the robber
barons of the region when on their plunder raids. The
window was unveiled by Dr. Charles Wellington, his
colleague in the Chemical Department for a quarter of
a century, and was accepted by Dr. Goessmann with a
few dignified and touching words.

In January 1910, at the request of the Alumni, he
sat for his portrait to Mr. Edwin B. Child of New
York. At the Alumni dinner on the 21st of June fol-
lowing it was unveiled by Frederick Tuckerman and
presented to the College. The portrait was accepted,
on behalf of the Trustees, by Mr. William H. Bowker
of Boston, a member of the first class and the senior
member of the Board. Many addresses were made by
his former students and others. Much to his regret
Dr. Goessmann was unable to be present, but a letter
from him was read by Dr. Homer J. WTieeler, the Pres-
ident of the Association, in which he sent his 'affec-
tionate greeting and best wishes ' — his last earthly
message — to his 'old pupils.*

Pre-eminently a domestic man and a devoted hus-

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band and father, his chief delight was in his home. It
was interesting to witness his childlike pleasure in his
beautiful grounds, in the trees and shrubs — all
selected and planted by him with excellent taste. In
tending and caring for them he found abundant relax-
ation and recreation.

Deeply religious from his youth, the contemplation
of Nature, no less than the sublime teaching of Scrip-
ture, inspired him with true devotion. He spent much
time in meditation and the study of the Bible. He
greatly admired the works of Faber and Newman, and
their writings formed part of his daily reading. Bom
a Catholic, the faith of his fathers, he lived and died
a devout member of the Church. It was largely
through the joint and persistent efforts of Dr. Goess-
mann and his devoted wife that a Roman Catholic
church was built and maintained in Amherst.

He was taken ill on the 23rd of August. He lingered
until the 1st of September, retaining his mental facul-
ties clearly until the last, — serene in his beautiful and
firm faith, — and soon after noon of that day passed
quietly away. On the 5th of September he was buried
from St. Bridget's Church, and his remains lie in the
little cemetery at Plainville.

An impressive and most appropriate service in
memory of Dr. Goessmann was held in the chapel of
the Massachusetts Agricultural College on "Wednesday
morning, October 12, at which addresses were made
by President Butterfield, Professor Chandler of
Columbia University, President Stone of Purdue Uni-
versity, and Professor Wellington of Amherst. The

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service was closed by the Rev. Dr. Cummings of Holy
Cross Church, Holyoke, who offered prayer and pro-
nounced the Benediction.

Goessmann was a teacher in a wide sense. He not
only taught his pupils in the class-room and labora-
tory, and trained his assistants, but he made the Col-
lege the nursery of agricultural chemists for other in-
stitutions throughout the land. By his lectures and
talks, his reports and bulletins, he taught and educated
the public. In the lecture-room and laboratory he was
painstaking and inspired his students to grasp the
problems he set before them. As an experimenter he
had readiness and skill, and could attain important
results with the minimum possible means. No one
who came in contact with him could fail to be struck
with the accuracy and extent of his knowledge and the
retentiveness of his memory. But he was more to his
pupils than a friend and teacher. He was the 'Be-
loved Goessmann' — the object of their admiration
and affection on account of his goodness, gentleness,
modesty, and patience, his high principle, his unfailing
cordiality, his unceasing interest in their welfare, and
the clearness of his intellectual vision. He was a fine
example of the Christian philosopher.

At Gottingen he devoted himself to the discovery of
new truths. After he came to America the utility of
science, especially in his chosen field, was always up-
permost in his mind. He was always tracing abstract
principles to their practical applications, and thus
bringing scientific knowledge within reach of the far-
mer and the general public. Quick to read the signs of

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the times, he had a clear comprehension of the actual
conditions and the needs of chemical education in this
country.

He lived to see the most remarkable changes in the
science which he had himself so successfully cultivated.
But like his great master, he preferred demonstration
to speculation; and although ready to adopt what was
established by experiment, however it might conflict
with his previous views, he was strongly opposed to
innovations based upon mere hypotheses. His pro-
found love of truth made him the cautious, painstak-
ing, persevering inquirer he was. He was a student of
facts. Like Faraday, he could 'trust a fact.' He
searched for facts and taught their value. He cared
rather to gather them than to deduce from them
general laws. Slow to generalize, in his judgments he
was conservative and independent.

Admirably fitted by tradition, training, experience,
and temperament for the life of a teacher and investi-
gator, he brought to the service of the College a singu-
larly happy combination of qualities — genuine devo-
tion to his subject, great capacity for work, the power
to kindle enthusiasm in others, a well-balanced mind
and body, and a robust physique. In the retrospect of
his life one is struck with the amount of labour which
he performed. Always at work, never in haste, sys-
tematic beyond most men, perfect order pervaded all
that he did. In his speech he never wholly lost his
foreign accent and German idioms. Yet as a writer he
had a good style and wrote English with facility and
ease, — with scarcely a trace of the involution of his

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mother tongue, — expressing himself in clear and
forceful language. His writings show the clear thinker
and the well-stored head. His researches embrace a
wide range in chemical science, and in analytical,
technical, and agricultural chemistry are marked by
high attainment. He was not a writer of books, yet
in total amount of production, if not in variety and
depth of interest, he may fairly be compared with
Noah Webster and President Hitchcock, unquestion-
ably the two most fertile writers Amherst has known.
His first contribution to chemical science appeared in
1853, and thereafter an uninterrupted series of con-
tributions to chemistry flowed from his pen for fifty-
four years. They remain an enduring monument to
their author.

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER

FKIKDKIC!! WOIILEK

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER

GoTTiNGEN, 3 January 1858.
Dear Doctor, —

Your kind and interesting letter of December 3 re-
minds me that I have not yet answered your first one
of June 26. Therefore, I must not delay any longer,
though I must admit that I have nothing to say that is
worth sending across the ocean. I thank you heartily
for all your communications, which I have read with
great interest, and which fully confirm the impressions
I have received of life and conditions in the new world.
I need not tell you that the news of your pleasant voy-
age and safe arrival has pleased us more than anything
else. For a journey of that kind, compared with a
journey from here to Fritzlar, must always be con-
sidered a venture. It pleased me also to hear that your
new sphere of activity meets your expectations. Still,
owing to Eastwick's promises and considering your
own trustworthiness and sense of honour, I never had
any doubts about the result. At all events you are to
be congratulated on having made and carried out this
resolution, for there is no doubt that a sojourn in
America is going to have the greatest influence upon
your whole future life, even though you do nothing
more than endeavour to acquire the good qualities for
which the Americans are noted, their perseverance,
self-reliance, their spirit of enterprise — all qualities
that so often fail in us Germans. And then, the oppor-

112 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

tunity to take a broader view of the world by studying
men and conditions on a great scale. In particular, I
congratulate you on your success in your new field, and
having at this early stage improved upon the method of
refining sugar. Not being familiar with the regulations
governing patents, I am unable to judge of the merits
of your process. I am inclined to think that it would be
easier and more to your advantage to sell your process
to individual factories. In this I shall do all in my power
to assist you. First of all you might apply to Hurtzig.

Respecting the new sugar plant, I have notified
Kopp by sending him the main points of your letter,
noting also that you intend sending the seed. Not
until after reading your exhaustive monograph con-
cerning this research can I judge of its adaptability
for publication in the Annalen. Meanwhile, I am in
favour of it, provided it is not too detailed and tech-
nical. This matter seems to me to be of great impor-
tance, provided the plant can be raised in Germany
and other countries. In the latter case you will have
the distinction of having introduced it into Germany.

Here everything remains unchanged. Limpricht,
Geuther, and Wicke send their greetings. Wicke has
become professor extr., Limpricht and Boedeker asses-
sors at the University Society. Deville was here again
in the autumn. I am enclosing the results of our last
researches.^ I presume you have seen in the Annalen
the paper on the new silicium compounds by Buff and
myself, as well as the experiments with titanium. De-
ville and I have now succeeded in producing a nitro-

* *Neue Beobachtungen Uber daa Bor und einige seiner Verbindungen.'

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 113

gen-silicium having the same behaviour as nitrogen.
Probably you have heard of little Engelhardt's ^ de-
parture for America as assistant to Professor Clark,
who coaxed him over.

Farewell. Best greetings to the Eastwicks and
kindly remember.

Your

WoHLER.

In case you have an opportunity to see Herr Booth
at the mint, an old pupil of mine, give him my best
greetings. I took care that he received my letter of
thanks for the beautiful minerals, which you were kind
enough to help unpack. Please also remember me to
Gillingham, Magee and Garrigues. Be sure to ask the
latter to procure for me a few more specimens of the
beautiful graphite on quartz, of which he let me have a
small piece, and also to tell me the locality they come
from. The graphite without the quartz would be of
little interest to me. It is especially important for me
to have crystallized graphite, which is said to occur in
North America.

Whlr.

I am anxious to hear in your next letter whether the
Messrs. Eastwick's business remains unaffected by the
great financial crisis.

G5ttingen, 9 March 1858.

Dear Gossmann, —

Permit me to recommend to you most particularly
the bearer, Herr Stephani. He has been working in my

^ Francis E. Engelhardt, Dr. Goessmann's successor at Syracuse.

114 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

laboratory this winter and I know him to be an excel-
lent young man. He will tell you what brings him to
America and also all that has happened here. Kindly
see that he has an opportunity to meet the Messrs.
Eastwick, Booth, Garrigues, etc. I hope that you are
doing well and that you have received my letter of
January 3. Your preliminary communication on the
sugar plant was long ago printed in the Annalen. My
best greetings to the Messrs. Eastwick and other
friends. Pardon the shortness of this letter, which I
am obliged to write in a hurry, as Stephani is about to
depart.

In best friendship,

Your

WOHLEB.
GOTTINGEN, 31 Oct. 1858.

Dear Doctor, —

I am ashamed of myself for not having answered ere
this your kind and very interesting letter of August 1.
I received it at Karlsruhe, where I had gone from
Munchen with Liebig in order to attend the meeting of
Naturalists.^ It proved to be a brilliant success and
was attended by nearly all the chemists of Germany.
Kuhlmann from Lille, Despretz, Nickles, Grandeau,
Troost from Paris were there. From here besides my-
self were Limpricht and Wicke (also Dr. Spiegelberg
and the troublesome Bialloblotzky).

I have read with pleasure what you say about
North America and its people, and also let Liebig read

1 Deutsche Naturforscher und Aerzte.

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 115

your letter. No doubt your views are quite correct,
and I am especially pleased to have you express them,
for it shows that you know how to adapt yourself to
new conditions and take advantage of things intel-
lectual and material. Apart from the fact that by
accepting this position you have laid the foundation
for a fine career within your sphere of activity, this
sojourn will be of the greatest importance in moulding
your future life. It would have interested me to hear
of your relations with the Eastwicks, how they are
progressing, and whether you are satisfied with the
conditions. I suppose everything is favourable, since
you have never said anything to the contrary.

Doubtless you have long ago learned that your mon-
ograph on Sorghum has been printed in Henneberg's
Landwirthsch. Journal, and also received free copies as
well as your honorarimn for the same. I have read it
with great interest, and have also forwarded a portion
of the seeds to Bartling as well as to Dr. Henneberg.
The latter has sown them on a piece of land at
Weende and the plants are thriving. Yesterday he
sent several specimens to the laboratory, where Dr.
Schwanert is going to ascertain the amount of sugar
they contain. Seeds have also been sent to Henneberg
by the Ministerium for experiment. Much attention
is being paid to this plant in Germany and France (I
believe in Italy, too) . Your consignment of seeds and
sugar has also reached me, for which accept my hearti-
est thanks. I have added the little specimens of sugar
to the laboratory collection as a present from you, and
turned over the beautiful sugar-loaf to my wife. She

116 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

could not be persuaded to open the latter until re-
cently, when she was out of sugar. We then had an
opportunity to admire its beauty and quality when
drinking our coffee, at the same time remembering you
gratefully. Geuther secured some seeds for Schleiden:
a part of them I kept to plant, the remainder were
given to Bartling for our Botanical Garden, and to
V. Martins, for the Botanical Garden at Munchen. I
hope that at least part of the lot will thrive well at one
or the other place.

I was glad to hear that Stephani had arrived and
had made your acquaintance. Give him my best
greetings. Dr. Bode of Cassel, who could not find a
position here, finally left for America on an uncer-
tainty and is, I believe, in Cincinnati. We have not
heard anything for a long time from Engelhardt who,
as you know, went to America with Prof. Clark. You
also write nothing concerning Garrigues, Gillingham,
Pugh, Joy, and the others who were here. Has not the
latter become a professor in New York? Have you
ever made the acquaintance of Mr. Booth, my first
American pupil.'' All this interests me very much.
There are now only three Americans working in the
laboratory, Messrs. Harris, Little and Stewart, besides
two Englishmen. I have accepted only 22 laboratory
students this semester, transferring half a dozen to
Limpricht in order to avoid the rush in winter. Dr.
Geuther still has your position, employing Fabian as an
assistant. Limpricht has for assistants Dr. Schwanert,
Dr. V. Uslar and Dr. Fittig. I have transferred the
6-hour Practicum to the old hospital, where Dr. v. Uslar

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resides. This is of great advantage as long as we have
no new laboratory. It is still uncertain whether we are
to have a new building, as the government has granted
only 27,000 thlr., instead of the 38,000 thlr. it will cost
according to the plans submitted. In order to design
a laboratory which shall be unsurpassed, I have sent
Limpricht and the architect Doltz to Wiesbaden,
Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Miinchen, in
order to inspect and study the details of all the labo-
ratories in those places. The agricultural laboratory
under Wicke is well attended, whereas Boedeker is
not popular with the medical students.

I suppose you have an opportunity to read the An-
nalen, so I need not report anything concerning new
work. Perhaps you have already received the July
number, and know that the remarkable silicium-
hydrogen gas may now be prepared chemically in the
same manner as phosphorus-hydrogen gas. At pres-
ent, I am again experimenting with nitrogen-silicium.

Nothing has occurred here that is worth mentioning.
A few have died (but no professors — Oesterley, v.
Bobers) ; others are engaged, e. g. Frlein Augusta Baum.
I myself have become a grandfather for the second
time. All the members of my family are very well, my
three oldest daughters having accompanied me on my
last journey to the beautiful Bavarian mountains. I
have just now spoken to Geuther, who sends his best
greetings. He does not know what became of the
honorarium for your monograph. He will attend to
the matter and have the money sent to your brother,
if he has not already received it.

118 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

Farewell. Remember me to the Eastwicks and to all
the friends, and let me hear from you very soon. When
you see Mr. Booth, tell him that a little more osmium-
iridium, in which he is so rich, would be very welcome
to me. No doubt an opportunity will present itself so
it can be sent here.

Cordially your

WOHLER.

GoTTiNGEN, 12 March 1860.
Dear Gossmann, —

First of all, my hearty thanks for your very full and
interesting letter of January 24, for the pieces of
graphite and the extraordinarily fine photographs, all
of which have made the long voyage successfully and
reached me safely. It is a great satisfaction to know
that one is not being forgotten by old pupils and
friends, and to receive from them so many tokens of
attachment, and that you are one of them.

It gives me peculiar pleasure also to know that all
goes well with you, that you are contented in your
interesting surroundings and that you have so many
opportunities to see great and remarkable things, to
know the world and to gather experiences which will
be of the greatest advantage to you in the future. I
envy you your good fortune in having made such a
fine voyage.^ I have also shown your letter to Hofr.
Wagner, Waltershausen, Geuther and my own family,
and all have read it with great interest. It is striking
what an array of new impressions one may receive in

» To the West Indies.

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America of which we in old, used-up Europe have
no conception. The contents of your letter, as well as
its minuteness of detail, proved that you do not think
ill of me because I did not write you for such an unpar-
donably long time. Indeed, it shames me to confess
that my last letter was dated 31 October 1858 — if I
am not mistaken. The news you sent concerning the
former Gottingen Americans gave me much pleasure,
and also that you have acted as protector to little
Engelhardt, thus probably laying the foundation for
his advancement. Only one have you forgotten to
mention — Professor Joy of New York, who with his
beautiful wife visited us last summer, though we have
not had a word from him since. I should be obliged if
you would write him a few lines in my name, asking
whether he has received the diploma of the Leopold
Academy^ and the silver mirror from Liebig, both hav-
ing been forwarded at the time to Rinteln according to
his directions. I hope he will overcome his dilatoriness
and write me himself.

As you have probably seen the Annalen, and there-
fore know already, I shall write nothing about chemi-
cal news from our laboratory, except that there is
much work being done and that it is well attended. I
am aware that you have not yet received this year's
March issue. At present I am having Niemann make
an investigation of the famous Coca {Erythroxylon
coca of Peru) and, as far as we have ascertained, it
very probably contains an organic base which may be

* Academia Giesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosonim (Kaiser-
lich-leopoIdiniscb-caroUniache deutscbe Akademie der Naturforscher,
Halle).

120 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

crystallized and which resembles atropin. We have
christened it Cocaine. I have received 25 lb. of coca
from Vienna, originally from the Novard's tour round
the world. Probably you are familiar with the new,
easy method of producing violet chromium chloride,
and know that by melting the same with zinc, metal-
lic chromium in microscopic crystals may easily be
obtained.

I do not know whether I have written you that we
are going to have a new laboratory here which will, I
hope, in construction and equipment surpass all other
laboratories. 38,000 thlr. have been granted therefor,
it is already under roof, and the finishing of the inte-
rior is so far advanced that it will be ready for use next
autumn. There will be room for all Practica except
those of Wicke and Boedeker.

e

b

1

_J

a a is the wall
b the old laboratory

c one-storey centre building with the principal
auditorium.

The old laboratory, which will form part of the new
wing, is being remodelled and made to harmonize with
the rest of the tremendous building by having two

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high and many small chimneys. Limpricht, whom I
sent with the architect Doltz to inspect all modern
laboratories in Germany, has the distinction of plan-
ning all the details of the building and the interior
equipment. I am sorry to say that he is now going
away from here, having received a call to Greifswald
as ordinarius with a salary of 1200 thir. He has also
been entrusted with the erection of a new laboratory,
a task that will now be easy for him to perform. I
could not keep him here longer, although he was
appointed ordinarius with a salary of 800 thlr.

I have taken advantage of this occasion to reor-
ganize the laboratory staff. I am conducting the
daily Practicum, assisted by Dr. Beilstein. Geuther
and V. Uslar both have charge of the 24-hour Prac-
ticum, Dr. Fittig of the 6-hour Practicum. All lab-
oratory students have to report to me and are to pay
all my fees to the Qudstur. But the assistants receive
from me, in addition to an increase of their fixed
salaries, a certain share of the fees.

You probably know already that our good old Haus-
mann has died, after long suffering, at the age of 76.
S. V. Waltershausen has taken his place. Moreover, a
young man is to be called — not expensive but excel-
lent — as a specialist in geognosy and palaeontology.
Hausmann's beautiful and complete collection (oryc-
togn. geognost. petrif. technical, metallurgical, anti-
quarian) is to be sold. You would do the heirs a great
favour by finding a trustworthy purchaser. Be sure to
let Professor Joy know of this, as perhaps the com-
plete collection would be welcomed in one of your

122 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

institutions of learning. They ask 6000 thlr., I be-
lieve, but they may be willing to take less. Be sure not
to forget this matter.

Good old Berthold is dying, and old Conradi has
become so infirm that before long he may follow
Hausmann. You have probably known for some time
that our celebrated mathematician, Dirichlet, is dead.
Riemann has been made ordinarius and member of
the Society of Sciences — a prodigious mathematical
head. I have been asked to succeed Hausmann as
Permanent Secretary of the Society. Wagner's disease
of the chest has led him to be placed on the half-
retired list, and consequently Professor Meissner, one
of our former pupils, has been called as professor of
physiology. As a result, the rooms in the Physiological
Institute have become so crowded that Boedeker was
obliged to transfer his laboratory to the old hospital.
As compensation for swallowing the disagreeable pill,
he received an increase of salary of 200 thlr. More-
over, I have obtained for him the work of preparing a
new edition of Berzelius's Chemie, and for Dr. Geuther
a new edition of Otto-Graham's Chemie. Hanssen has
received a call to Berlin and, I am sorry to say, has
accepted it. His daughter is engaged to a Prussian
oflBcet , and so is Baum's oldest daughter. Both oflBcers
were aides to counts and princes studying here. Now
I am through gossiping.

Farewell, dear Gossmann, and delight me with more
news from you very soon. Best greetings from my
family as well as from Limpricht, Wicke and Geuther.

* KOnigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen.

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 123

Remember me to the Eastwicks and all the old Got-
tinger. There are now only three Americans in the
laboratory — Stewart, Parkman and Hart. Whenever
you can get hold of some genuine graphite and other
minerals, please remember me. My greetings to Booth
also.

In best friendship.

Your

WoHLER.

GOttingen, 24 Fehr. 1863.
Dear Gossmann, —

To-day only a few lines acknowledging the receipt
of your letter and to thank you for the interesting
communications. The latter I forwarded at once to
Oberbergrath Schwarzenberg in Cassel, begging him
to comply with your request in regard to the condi-
tions governing the salt manufacturing industry. I did
not receive an answer until yesterday (without your
letter). He has taken the necessary steps at mining
headquarters and has been assured of a reply, which,
however, has not yet been received, as delays are not
unusual there. As soon as I receive the papers, I shall
send them to you and write more fully.

I congratulate you heartily on your marriage and
am glad that you are succeeding so well. Nevertheless,
I have, when asked about it, proposed you as professor
of technical chemistry at the newly established Poly-
technic School at Braunschweig, and I know that they
are thinking of you seriously. But do not depend too
much upon it, as a decision may not be reached for

124 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

a year. In the meantime Dr. Seyfert is delivering
lectures. '^^

Geuther has received a call to Jena to succeed Leh-
mann, and has accepted. Although I was unwilling to
lose him, nevertheless it was I who proposed him,
when asked by the Curatorium. More next time.

In best friendship,

Your

WOHLER.

GOttinqen, 4 March 1863.
Dear Gossmann, —

I hope that you have received through Professor
Joy my note of February 24. I have finally obtained
from the mining headquarters in Cassel the informa-
tion concerning the Attendorf Salt Works, and send
it to you with the hope that it will meet your ex-
pectations.

I had intended to write you more fully on this occa-
sion, but I am so preoccupied just now that I have to
be sparing of my time. And yet I should be sorry to
delay longer any change in your affairs expected by
you. But I shall write you shortly, although, as you
very well know, the monotony of our life here affords
little occasion to report anything new. I shall then
give you first of all a detailed description of our splen-
did new laboratory, which, to be sure, cost 40,000 thlr.
but is, in my opinion, better arranged than any other.
There is plenty of room to provide comfortably for at
least 80 laboratory students.

Let me call your attention to another thing. Does

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 125

not sea-water mother liquor contain chloride of cal-
cium?— now so highly valued, because with Chili
saltpetre it may be easily changed into nitrate of
potash.

I asked you to pardon this short letter. Write me
very soon, for every one of your letters gives me pleas-
ure. I should also like to know whether my consign-
ment through your brother has been delivered to you
promptly.

Cordially your

WoHLER.
GoTTiNGEN, 10 Jan. 1866.

Dear Gossmann, —

I have not heard from you for a long time. But it is
my fault, for I believe I owe you an answer to your last
letter. You have perhaps heard from Prof. Joy how I
am and that all goes well with me. To-day only a few
lines and these in great haste.

A former pupil of mine, Herr Meinhard Alsberg,
later assistant to Geuther in Jena, wishes me to com-
mend him to you, as he believes that you would have
an influential voice in obtaining for him an appoint-
ment as assistant in chemistry at a technical school in
Philadelphia. He is at present in Philadelphia and in-
tends to apply for the position. So far as I know him,
I can strongly recommend him. Moreover, he has
already recommended himself through several good
investigations, the results of which have been pub-
lished in the Annalen.

This is all I have to say. I hope all goes well with

126 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

you. When you write me again, kindly send me your
photograph and your wife's.
In old friendship,

Your

WOHLER.
GoTTiNGEN, 1 Augxist 1866.

Dear Gossmann, —

I am reproaching myself for having left your kind
letter of April 14 unanswered for such an unpardon-
ably long time. Be indulgent with me and be assured
that it has given me great joy, for it is always a satis-
faction to me to receive such proofs of true attachment
from my old pupils, especially when they are accom-
panied by news of their prosperity, as in your case.

It has been a great pleasure to me to receive the
photographs of yourself and your wife, thus enriching
my collection of pictures of those dear to me. Accept
my sincere thanks for them. All the members of my
family, who remember you very well, have also been
interested to see how you look now, and are glad to
have made your wife's acquaintance, at least through
the picture; likewise Frau and Fraulein Kreuzhagen,
to whom I had to show the pictures. I may here
remark that the latter (Anna) is to marry a German
physician in London, who formerly studied here.

I must thank you too for your various publications,
which I leave to others to read and report to me, not
being myself familiar enough with the English lan-
guage. I am glad to hear that you are contented
with yoiu* position, and hope and trust that you are

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 127

making yourself indispensable to the company, that
your future is assured, unless another sphere of useful-
ness may be open to you in the meanwhile, which
might be more congenial to you and offer still greater
pecuniary advantages.

To judge by a few utterances in your letter, you
are still having an eye to teaching, although you seem
to be aware that it is difficult for a foreigner to obtain
such a position. Here in Germany there is great de-
mand for such places. I could not hold out any pros-
pects for you at this moment.

While admitting that I am unfamiliar with condi-
tions in America, it surprised me that your company,
which produces such a colossal amount of salt, does
not start a subsidiary business, e.g. a soda factory or
a manufactory utilizing the ingredients of the mother
liquor. Yet I am aware you have already thought of
this yourself and have your reasons for its imprac-
ticability.

I rejoice to hear of your domestic happiness and
your fatherhood. When I think that I studied with
your father at Marburg and that now his son tells me
of his children, I realize from this and many other
things how old I am. Yesterday I celebrated my 66
birthday, and *unser Leben wdhret 70 Jahr und wenn
ist hoch kommt 80* Moreover, I am feeling well and
can attend to my duties as I have always done. But I
cannot attend to the special functions of the strenuous
Practicum as well as formerly, as every semester sev-
enty or eighty workers use up a quantity of material
and toob. Therefore I must leave the principal details

128 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

to my four assistants (Professor v. Uslar, Professor
Beilstein, Dr. Fittig and Dr. Hiibner), and it works
quite well. Besides, I have a special assistant to help
me in my lectures.

You would find here many things changed and
many quite new. Besides the large new laboratory
there are fine new conservatories in the Botanical
Garden, and in front of the Weender gate (which no
longer exists), at the end of the Botanical Garden, is a
new, large, very stately hall which cost nearly 100,000
thlr. Adjoining the conservatory a new residence has
been built for the director. The enlargement of the
library is also being considered, but owing to the sad
war now prevailing this project will not be carried out.
Of the latter conditions I shall write nothing, they
being known to you through the newspapers.

Last month when the king with the whole Han-
overian army and all the munitions of war took refuge
here, we were living in a wild, great military camp,
daily fearing the outbreak of a battle in our immediate
neighbourhood. After the departure of our army Got-
tingen was occupied by the Prussians. Then came the
disastrous battle of Langensalza, followed by the cap-
itulation of our army. The Prussians have also been
victorious in the south, where they occupy all of Hesse,
Nassau, Darmstadt, Frankfurt and a gi'eat part of
Bavaria. Their troops are already near or in Wiirz-
burg. At present there is an armistice. It is said that
all of Hanover, the Electorate of Hesse, and Nassau
will be annexed to Prussia. But enough of these
painful events.

LETTERS OF FRTEDRICH WOHLER 129

Hofmann's report of the Exhibition of 1862 ^ has
been ready for you for a long time. It affords me pleas-
ure to give you this fine copy, which I have received as
a gift from Hofmann himself (with a dedication in his
own hand). But it is useless to me, since I do not un-
derstand enough English. Now I shall not wait any
longer for an opportunity to send it to you, but will do
so through Dr. Fliigel of Leipzig, commissioner of the
Smithsonian Institution. I ought to have done it long
ago. Farewell now, dear Doctor. My best remem-
brances to your wife, and have always a kindly feel-
ing for,

Your truly devoted,

WoHLER.

My wife and three daughters (the fourth is on a
visit at Hanau, the fifth is married in Hanover) send
their best greetings and are glad that you still remem-
ber them.

Kindly have the enclosed letter forwarded to Eso-
pus. Should there be no post connexion with that
place, address it to Columbia College, New York,
whence it will be sent to Esopus.

GoTTiNGEN, 17 Dec. 1868.
Dear Gossmann, —

My best thanks for yoiu* letter, which was handed to
me by Herr Darmstadt, who is now working diligently
in our laboratory — at present on boron-nitrogen.

* Second International Exhibition, London. On the fly-leaf is written:
'Herm Hofrath Wohler hocbachtungsvoll u. freundschaftHcht der verf.';
and underneath: 'Herm Dr. GOssmann zur freundlichen Erinnerung an F.
WoUer."

130 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

The occasion of these lines is your former attendant,
Frau Kornrumpf . She told me last summer that you
were godfather to her boy, now five years old, request-
ing me to remind you that thus far you have failed to
make a present to your godchild. I had forgotten
all about it, until her husband called on me yesterday
with the express purpose of again reminding me of it.
I hasten, therefore, to let you know the wishes of these
evidently very poor people, hoping that you will con-
sider them and send them a little present of money —
j)erhaps a bill of exchange on Engelhardt's mother.
These people said they had given her a letter to you
some years ago, but had received no answer thereto.
In case you feel inclined to be benevolent, you can let
them have the money through one of the Americans
studying here, for instance, Mr. Carmichael. But
should you want to send it directly here, you may ad-
dress it to me.

Here everything is going its old course, with some
modifications, since we are Prussians. Probably your
family have told you of the calamity caused here and
also in Fritzlar by the recent terrific storm. During
the Mass the roof of the cathedral fell in, killing 22
persons, mostly women. Here, too, houses were un-
roofed, chimneys thrown down and a great number of
the most beautiful old trees were uprooted. Our public
squares are in an especially sad condition.

Please remember me to your wife.
In best friendship.

Your

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I congratulate you on the position in Massachu-
setts, upon which you are going to enter after New
Year.

GoTTiNGEN, 11 Aug. 1869.
Dear Gossmann, —

Only a few lines to ask your indulgence for not an-
swering your letter of May 17 of last year, which was
delivered to me by Herr Darmstadt. Moreover, this
gentleman, who was working very diligently in my
laboratory and has since received his degree, has
no doubt told you of his success and how things
are here. He has now become a brewer, and is
going to be married or has already done so. He is
an excellent fellow and made a favourable impression
on me.

First of all let me heartily congratulate you on your
new position. I am delighted that you are having such
a successful career in America. You are truly to be
envied for having seen so much of the world, and had
such great and varied experiences beyond the sea.
May you continue to prosper.

I ought to have acknowledged the receipt of the 10
thlr. long ago, for you have thereby made the poor
people very happy. I had to give them your address
and guessed they wanted to thank you themselves,
though I promised to do it for them.

The bearer of this is Dr. Storrs from Amherst, whom
I can recommend most particularly to your favour.
For two years he has been studying chemistry here
and now hopes to find a desirable position, if it be

132 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

only as an assistant. Perhaps you can do something
for him

In best friendship,

Your

WOHLER.

GoTTiNGEN, 23 Nov. 1875.
Dear Gossiviann, —

You may ascribe it to my conscientiousness in keep-
ing promises, if I take the liberty of troubling you with
the request of another. You remember well Frau
Komrumpf , your former attendant, whom you have
once before aided with money. For years she has been
calling on me from time to time, inquiring whether I
have received a new contribution for her. Finally I
had to promise to write you, calling your attention to
her poverty. I always delayed writing, fearing it
would be fruitless to request you for further aid.
Whatever I could give her was only a little, since I am
contributing a sufficient amount towards the support of
the poor. Yesterday she came again, telling me of the
distress she and her husband were in, and asked if
nothing yet had come for her. From all she (and also
recently her husband) told me, and what seemed to
me truthful, they must be in great need at present.
They do not live here any longer, but at Eldagsen,
where the husband is a railway workman. I have
now kept my promise, and heartily wish that I may be
successful and you will once more send a small con-
tribution to these poor people. Should you be dis-
posed to do so, you may send the money to me.

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 133

I hope all continues to go well with you. For a long
time I have heard nothing from you. Here things are
going on well and we are trying to be good Prussians.
Last semester the University was attended by 1080,
the present one, by a little over 1000. The laboratory
attendance is so great that there is scarcely room left,
and an enlargement is being considered. I am now 76
years old, and no longer concern myself with the de-
tails of instruction and gave up lecturing some time
ago. I have only the general direction of the Institute.
H'ibner is now the principal one lecturing, having
been proposed by me, and appointed professor ordi-
narius and assistant director of the Institute, v. Uslar
is head of the pharmaceutical division. I have in all
six assistants, every one of them indispensable. Prob-
ably you have heard that Fittig, my former assistant
whom you remember well, has become professor at
Tubingen. He has now received and accepted a call to
Strassburg to succeed Baeyer, who has been called to
Munchen as Liebig's successor.

My family are well. My eldest daughter is married
to Burgomaster Merkel of this place, has four daugh-
ters, the oldest of which is engaged to a physician, so
that I have good prospects of becoming a great-grand-
father. My youngest daughter is married in London,
and has three children. My son, who is an economist
at Rodelheim near Frankfurt, lately rejoiced in the
birth of a daughter, after the marriage had been
without issue for sixteen years. My other three
daughters are still single and are very likely to re-
main so.

134 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN

A few days ago our botanist Bartling died, 77 years
old.

Farewell. Greetings from me to your dear wife, of
whom at least I possess a photograph, and kindly
remember,

Your truly devoted,

WOHLER.

My best greetings also to Professor Clark. I shall
send you with this letter (under separate cover) a little
joke, which is not intended for publication.

GoTTiNGEN, 25 February 1876.

Dear Colleague Gossmann, —

A thousand thanks for your exhaustive, interesting
letter, the extraordinarily beautiful photographs and
the money for the Kornrumpfs.

While I was reading in the first the sketch of your
varied life in America, I thought of the remarkable
occurrences in this world, how I could not foresee 55
years ago, when I began my studies at Marburg, that
my fellow-student Gossmann from Fritzlar, who
played the flute so well and serenaded the belles of
Marburg so often, while I held the lantern, should one
day have a son, who would become one of my dearest
pupils, and that the latter would now be living in
America, for 19 years, in full activity and laying the
foundation for a most happy existence. You can imag-
ine how interesting it was to me to have such a vivid
picture of your family. The same is true of the picture
of Clark, to whom please express my hearty thanks. I
consider him also as one of my most lovable pupils.

LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 135

especially since he and poor Manross ^ were the first
Americans who worked under me here. Only one had
been here earlier, Mr. Booth, now in Philadelphia; but
at that time I was still at Cassel. One of the half dozen
Americans, who are working again in the laboratory
this winter, says he heard of Clark's going to Japan.

The money for the Kornrumpfs, amounting to 12
thlr. 14 gr., was paid to me from Koln. At first I
had difficulty in finding the people, since they are no
longer here, but, as I afterwards learned, live at Har-
degsen. The poor devil of a husband, who finally came
to me for the money, was almost moved to tears. He
evidently did not expect so large a siun. He wished to
write you himself in order to thank you. I told him I
would do it for him.

Now I have been interrupted by visitors waiting to
see me, and it is high time for this letter to be posted,
so that it shall arrive in due season to-morrow for the
steamer at Bremen. Farewell. Remember me to your
wife and greet all who remember me, including Pro-
fessor Shepard.

In best friendship.

Your WOHLER.

Perhaps an opportunity will occur to you to have a
translation of the enclosed announcement printed in an
American mathematical journal or newspaper. If not,
then send it to the leading bookseller in New York.

» Newton Spaulding Manross (Yale, 1850; Ph.D. GOttingen. 1852) of
Bristol, Conn., and William S. Clark were fellow-students in Wohler's
Laboratory. In 1861-62, during Clark's absence at the front in the
Civil War, Manross taught his classes at Amherst College. At the end
of the year he raised a company of volunteers at Bristol, was made cap-
tain, and fell at Antietam leading his men.

APPENDIX

ABBREVIATIONS OF FOREIGN
PUBLICATIONS

AnUl. Ber. dextisch. Naturf. u. ^erzte. Amtlicher Bericht Uber die

Versammlung deutscher
Natiirforscher und Aerzte.

Ann. Chem. Pharm Annalen der Chemie und

Pharmacie, Leipzig und
Heidelberg. Wohler, Liebig
und Kopp.

Ann. chim. phys Annales de chimie et de phy-
sique, Paris. Gay-Lussac,
Arago, Chevreul, Dumas,
Pelouze, Boussingault, Reg-
nault, de Senarmont et
Wurtz.

Centr. Agrik.-Chem BiedermannsCentral-BIattfUr

Agrikulturchemie und ra-
tionellen Landwirthschafts-
Betrieb, Leipzig.

Chem. Centr Chemisches Central-Blatt,

Leipzig.

Chem.-Pharm. Centr Chemiseh - Pharmaceutisches

Central-Blatt, Leipzig.

Chem. Gaz Chemical Gazette, London.

W. Francis.

Chem. News Chemical News, London. W.

Crookes.

Comptes rendus de VAcad. det Sci. . . Comptes rendus de I'Acad^-

mie des Sciences, Paris.

Joum. Chem. Soc Journal of the Chemical Soci-
ety of London.

Joum. de pharm Journal de pharmacie et des

sciences accessoires, Paris.

Joum. fur Landunrthschaft Journal flir Landwirthschaft,

Gottingen-Weende.
W. Hennebcrg.

140 ABBREVIATIONS

Joum. prakt. Chem Journal fUrpraktischeChemie,

Leipzig. O. L. Erdmann
und G. Werther.

Oesterreich. Landw. Wochenbl Oesterreichisches landwirth-

schaftliches Wochenblatt,
Wien.

Pharm. Joum. Trans Pharmaceutical Journal and

Transactions, London. Ja-
cob BeU.

Phil, Mag London, Edinburgh, and Dub-
lin Philosophical Magazine.
Sir David Brewster, Rich-
ard Taylor, Sir Robert
Kane, William Francis,
John Tyndall.

Polytech. Joum Polytechnisches Journal,

Augsburg.

Quart. Joum. Chem. Soc Quarterly Journal of the

Chemical Society of Lon-
don.

Zeit. anal. Chem Zeitschrif t f Ur analy tische

Chemie, Wiesbaden. C. R.
Fresenius,

LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF
CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN ^

1853

1. Ueber die Bestandtheile der Canthariden. Inaugural-Dis-
sertation zur Erlangung der philosophisclien DoctorwUrde
von K. A. Goessmann aus Fritzlar. Gottingen, Druck der
Univ.-Buchdruckerei von E. A. Huth. 1853. 8vo, SS. 38.

2, Ueber die Natur des Fettes der Canthariden. Ann. Chem.
Pharm. Bd. Lxxxvi. 1853, S. 317-330; Joum. de pkarm. t.
XXIV. 1853, pp. 378, 379; Chem.-Pharm. Centr. 1854, S. 49,
50; Chem. Gaz. vol. xn. 1854, p. 92.

1854

S. Ueber die Arachinsaure. Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. Lxxxix.
1854, S. 1-11; Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. lxi. 1854, S. 236-238;
Polytech. Joum. Bd. cxxxi. 1854, S. 156, 157; Chem.-Pharm.
Centr. 1854, S. 50, 51; Ann. chim. phys. t. xlvi. 1856, pp. 230-
232; Quart. Joum. Chem. Soc. vol. vm. 1856, p. 279; Sur
I'aeide de I'huile d'Araehide. Joum. de pharm. t. xxv. 1854,
pp. 158, 159.

4. Ueber die Margarinsaure im Fette der Canthariden. Ann.
Chem. Pharm. Bd. lxxxix. 1854, S. 123-125; Joum. prakt.
Chem. Bd. lxi. 1854, S. 238, 239; Chem.-Pharm. Centr. 1854,
S. 50; Chem. Gaz. vol. xii. 1854, p. 92.

5. Ueber die Bestandtheile der Cacaobutter (gemeinsam mit
C. Specht). Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. xc. 1854, S. 126-128;
Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. lxii. 1854, S. 310; Chem.-Pharm.
Centr. 1854, S. 607; Joum. de pharm. t. xxvi. 1854, pp. 238,
239; Chem. Gaz. vol. xn. 1854, pp. 306-308.

6. Neue Methode zur Darstellung der BenzoglycolsSure. Ann.
Chem. Pharm. Bd. xc. 1854, S. 181-184; Joum. prakt. Chem.

* A few short papers, usually extracts from some of the longer ones, ap-
pear more than once in this list. Goessmann was in the habit of sending the
same paper, with only a few changes, to several publications.

142 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Bd. LXin. 1854, S. 88, 89; Chem.-Pharm. Centr. 1854, S. 672;
Chem. Gaz. vol. xii. 1854, pp. 310-312; Journ. de pharm. t.
XXVII. 1855, pp. 397-399.

7. Verwandlung des Thialdins in Leucin. Ann. Chem. Pharm.
Bd. xc. 1854, S. 184, 185; Journ. prakt. Chem. Bd. Lxni.

1854, S. 190; Chem.-Pharm. Centr. 1854, S. 672; Journ. de
pharm. t. xxvi. 1854, p. 156; Chem. Gaz. vol. xii. 1854, pp.
188, 325, 326: — Lettre de M. Wohler a M. Dumas, Comptes
rendus de VAcad. des Sci. t. xxxvni. 1854, pp. 555-557.

8. Ueber die Bildungs-und Bereitungsweise des Aethylamins.
Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. xci. 1854, S. 122-125; Chem.-Pharm.
Centr. 1854, S. 751, 752; Ann. chim. phys. t. xlii. 1854, p. 246;
Journ. pralct. Chem. Bd. lxv. 1855, S. 244; Quart. Journ.
Chem. Soc. vol. vm. 1856, pp. 161-163.

9. Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Leucins. Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd.
XCI. 1854, S. 129-138; Jaum. jrrakt. Chem. Bd. lxiii. 1854,
S. 375-378; Chem.-Pharm. Centr. 1854, S. 801-803; Ann.
chim. phys. t. XLn. 1854, p. 499; Chem. Gaz. vol. xii. 1854,
pp. 467-469; Journ. de pharm. t. xxvn. 1855, pp. 73-75.

10. Ueber Leucin und Essigsaure-Aldehyd. Vortrag bei der Ver-
sammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerate in Gottingen,
September 1854. AmU. Ber. deutsch. Naturf. u. Aerzte, 1854
(1860), S. 50.

1855

11. Ueber eine neue Bildung des Amarins und Lophins, Ann.
Chem,. Pharm. Bd. xciii. 1855, S. 329-333; Journ. prakt.
Chem. Bd. LXV. 1855. S. 245-247; Chem.-Pharm. Centr. 1855,
S. 266; Ann. chim. phys. t. XLV. 1855, pp. 123, 124; Chem. Gaz.
vol. XIII. 1855, pp. 144-146; Quart. Journ. Chem. Soc. vol.
vin. 1856, pp. 161-163.

12. Ueber die Hypogasaure, eine neue Fettsaure im Erdnussol
(gemeinsam mit H. Scheven). Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. xciv.

1855, S. 230-235; Journ. jxrakt. Chem. Bd. lxvi. 1855, S. 83-
85; Chem.-Pharm. Centr. 1855, S. 468, 469; Chem. Gaz. vol.
xni. 1855, pp. 209, 210; Ann. chim. phys. t. xlvi, 1856, pp.
230-232; Jmim. de pharm. t.xxix. 1856, pp. 238, 239; Quart.
Journ. Chem. Soc. vol. vra. 1856, pp. 279-282.

1856

13. Ueber die Verbindungen der Arachinsaure (gemeinsam mit
H. Scheven). Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. xcvii. 1856, S. 257-

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 143

265; J&um. j/rakt. Chem. Bd. Lxvra. 1856, S. 179-183; Chem.
Centr. 1856, S. 309-312; Ann. chim. phys. t. XLvn. 1856, pp.
382-384 (Berthelot) ibid. pp. 355, 356; Chem. Gaz. vol.
XIV. 1856, pp. 181-185.

14. Zur Kenntniss des Lophins (gemeinsam mit E. Atkinson).
Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. xcvii. 1856, S. 283-294; Joum.
prakt. Chem. Bd. Lxvm. 1856, S. 154-157; Chem. Centr. 1856,
S. 420-422; Quart. Joum. Chem. Soc. vol. tx. 1857, pp. 220-
226; Phil. Mag. (4) vol. xn. 1856, p. 55.

15. Darstellung des Cumarins. Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. xcvni.

1856, S. 66; Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. Lxvra. 1856, S. 192;
Chem. Centr. 1856, S. 478; Chem. Gaz. vol. xiv. 1856, pp. 210,
211.

16. Ueber einige Verwandlungsproducte der HypogMsaure (ge-
meinsam mit G. C. CaldwelXi). Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd.
xcrx. 1856, S. 305-314; Chem. Centr. 1856, S. 892, 893;
Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. lxx. 1857, S. 79-81; Ann. chim.
phys. t. xux. 1857, pp. Ill, 112; Chem. Gaz. vol. xv. 1857,
pp. 23, 24; Phil. Mag. (4) vol. xin. 1857, p. 185.

17. Mangansaures Kali als Entfarbungsmittel. Ann. Chem.
Pharm. Bd. xcrx. 1856, S. 373-376; Chem. Centr. 1856, S. 735;
Polytech. Joum. Bd. cxlh. 1856, S. 316, 317; Phil. Mag.
(4) vol. XII. 1856, p. 304; Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. ixrs. 1857,
S. 469, 470.

18. Vortheilhafte Darstellungweise des Styracins. Ann. Chem.
Pharm. Bd. xcix. 1856, S. 376; Chem. Centr. 1856, S. 735;
Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. LXix. 1857, S. 470; Ann. chim. phys.
t. xux. 1857, p. 109.

19. Triphenylamin, ein Zersetztmgsproduct des sauren schwef-
ligsauren Zimmtsaure-Aldehyd-Ammoniaks. Ann. Chem.
Pharm. Bd. c. 1856, S. 57-69; Chem. Centr. 1856, S. 897-899;
Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. lxx. 1857, S. 288-291; Ann. chim.
phys. t. XLix. 1857, pp. 372-374; Chem. Gaz. vol. xv. 1857,
pp. 45, 46; Phil. Mag. (4) vol. xiii. 1857, pp. 183, 184; Amer.
Joum. Sci. (2) vol. xxin. 1857, p. 268.

20. Ueber die Wirkung des Chlorzinks auf Hippursaure. Ann.
Chem. Pharm. Bd. c. 1856, S. 69-75; Joum. prakt. Chem.
Bd. LXX. 1857, S. 294-296; Chem. Centr. 1857, S. 48; Ann.
chim. phys. t. XLix. 1857, pp. 374, 375.

21. Ueber Bildung von krystallisirtem Rhodansilber. Ann. Chem.
Pharm. Bd. c. 1856, S. 76, 77; Joum. prakt. Chem. Bd. lxx.

1857, S. 245; Chem. Centr. 1857, S. SO; Ann. chim. phys. t.
Xiix. 1857, p. 375; Chem. Gaz. vol. xv. 1857, pp. 25, 26.

144 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

22. Ueber das Huanokin, eine neue Base der Chinarinde; von
A. Erdmann. Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. c. 1856, S. 346; Jaum.
prakt. Chem. Bd. lxx. 1857, S. 423, 424; Chem. Centr. 1857,
S. 551, 552; Ann. chim. phys. t. l. 1857, pp. 483, 484; Chem.
Gaz. vol. XV. 1857, p. 365.

1857

23. Ueber die Einwirkung des Jodathyls auf wolframsaures Sil-
beroxyd. Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. ci. 1857, S. 218, 219; CAem.
Centr. 1857, S. 352; Chem. Gaz. vol. xv. 1857, p. 148.

24. Tricapronylamin, ein Zersetzungsproduct des sauren schwef-
ligsauren Oenanthol-Ammoniaks (gemeinsam mit C. Th.
Petersen). Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. ci. 1857, S. 310-313;
ibid. Bd. en. 1857, S. 318, 323; Journ. prakt. Chem. Bd. lxxi.
1857, S. 171, 172, 490-492; Chem. Centr. 1857, S. 193-199;
Chem. Gaz. vol. xv. 1857, pp. 181-186.

25. Ueber eine neue Bereitungsweise des Anilins aus Nitrobenzol
(gemeinsam mit F. Wohler). Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd. cii.
1857, S. 127, 128; Journ. prakt. Chem. Bd. lxxi. 1857, S. 254;
Chem. Centr. 1857, S. 560.

26. Eine neue Zuckerpflanze. Aus einem Briefe des Dr. Gossmann
zu Philadelphia an Hofrath Wohler. Ann. Chem. Pharm. Bd.
civ. 1857, S. 335, 336; Journ. prakt. Chem. Bd. Lxxra. 1858,
S. 508.

1858

27. Beitrfige zur Kenntniss des s.g. chinesischen Zuckerrohrs,
Sorghum saccharatum, W. Journ, fur Landvdrthschaft, G5t-
tingen, N.F. Bd. i. 1858, S. 294-323.

1861

28. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Nature of the Chinese
Sugar-cane, Sorghum saccharatum, W. A Paper read at the
Annual Meeting of the New York State Agricultural Society
at Albany, February, 1862. Trans. New York State Agric.
Soc. vol. XXI. 1861, pp. 785-811; Albany: Printed by Charles
van Benthuysen, 1862. 8vo, pp. 27; Johnson's New Univer-
sal Cyclopaedia, vol. iv. 1878, pp. 639, 640.

1862

29. Analyses of Fine Salt (Boiled), from Saginaw, Michigan, and
Hocking Valley and Mason City, Ohio. 1861. Report of the

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 145

Salt Company of Onondaga, Syracuse, 1862, p. 7. Analyses of
Ashton Salt and of Onondaga Factory-Filled Salt. Ibid. p. 17.

30. Report on the Chemical Composition of the Brines of Onon-
daga, New York. Syracuse, December 3, 1862. 12mo, pp. 11.
Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Onondaga Salt
Springs. Assembly, State of New York, Document No. 70.
February 12, 1863, pp. 27-30; Senate, State of New York,
Document No. 89. March 20, 1863, p. 43; Amer. Journ. Sci.
(2) vol. XL. 1865, p. 47; Geological Survey of Canada, 1863-66.
Ottawa. 1866, pp. 267, 270.

1863

31. Composition of the Brines taken at the different pump houses
on the 5th of July, 1862, at Syracuse; from the various wells
at Saginaw, in October, 1862; and calculations concerning
the relative quantities of salt which result by the evapora-
tion of Brine from diflFerent districts at Syracuse, and from
the diflFerent works and wells at Saginaw. Senate Report,
State of New York, Document No. 89. March 20, 1863, pp.
20-22; Legislature, State of Michigan, House Document No.
37. 1865, pp. 5, 6; Geol. Survey Michigan, vol. iii. 1873-
1876, pp. 181-185, 194-196 ; Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey, No.
330, 1908, p. 141.

1864

32. Report on the Manufacture of Solar Salt from the Brines of
the Salt Springs of Onondaga. Syracuse, December 1, 1863.
Published at Syracuse, by Truair, Smith & Miles, January,
1864. 8vo, pp. 26. Geological Survey of Canada, 1866-1869.
Montreal, 1870, pp. 231-238.

33. Contribution on the Manufacture and Refining of Cane-
Sugar. Syracuse, New York: Holman, 1864. 8vo, pp. 12.
Chemical News, London, vol. xi. 1865, pp. 26-28, 51-53.

1865

34. Notes on the Manufacture of Sugar in the Island of Cuba.
Syracuse: The Journal Book and Job Office, 1865. 8vo, pp.
16. Chemical Netos, London, vol. xi. 1865, pp. 26-28, 51-53.

1866

35. Report to the State Superintendent of the Salt Springs of
Onondaga, New York. Syracuse, January 9, 1866. Annual
Report of the Superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs.

146 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Assembly, State of New York, Document No. 19. January 17.
1866, pp. 29-31.

36. Contribution to the Chemistry of the Mineral Springs of
Onondaga, New York. Syracuse, February, 1866. Syracuse:
The Journal Book and Job Office, 1866. 8vo, pp. 22. Amer.
Joum. Sci. (2) vol. xlii. 1866, pp. 211-218, 368-375; Zeit
And. Chem. Jahrg. vi. 1867, S. 223-225.

1867

37. On the Rock-salt Deposit of Petite Anse: Louisiana Rock-
salt Company. Report of the American Bureau of Mines. New
York, January 4, 1867. 8vo, pp. 35, 2 plans. Smithsonian
Contributions to Krunvledge, 248 (1872), vol. xxiii. 1881, pp.
14-20, plans.

38. Rep>ort to the Superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs
on the Rock-salt Deposit upon Petite Anse Island, La. Syra-
cuse, N.Y., January 8, 1867. Annual Report of the Superin-
tendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs. Assembly, State of
New York, Document No. 75. January 10, 1867, pp. 29-31.

39. Contribution to the Chemistry of Brines. Amer. Joum. Sci.
(2) vol. xLiv. 1867, pp. 77-87; Trans. New York Acad. Sci.
vol. IX. 1889, p. 43 ; Dana's System of Mineralogy, 6th ed.,
1892, p. 156 ; BuU. U.S. Geol. Survey, No. 32, 1886, p.
35; ibid. No. 330, 1908, pp. 141, 185, 186.

1868

40. Rep>ort to the Superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs
on the Salt Resources of Goderich, Canada, etc. Syracuse,
January 11, 1868. Annual Report of the Superintendent of
the Onondaga Salt Springs. Assembly, State of New York,
Document No. 19. January 14, 1868, pp. 13-15, 29, 36, 37,
40; Report of Progress, 186fr-69, Geological Survey of Canada,
Montreal, 1870, pp. 219, 220.

41. Report on the Salt Resources of Goderich, Province of
Ontario (Canada West). Syracuse, N.Y., January 16, 1868.
8vo, pp. 18. Report of Progress, 1866-69, Geological Survey of
Canada, Montreal, 1870, pp. 221-244, passim; Rapport des
Operations, 1866-69, ibid. pp. 242, 243, 255, 261-263.

1869

42. Cheese as Food. Paper read at the Annual Meeting of
the American Dairymen's Association at Utica, N.Y., January

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12, 1870. Fifth Annual Rept. Amer. Dairym. Assoc. 1869-70,
pp. 115-119; Trans. Hamp. Agric. Soc. 1871, pp. 40-45.

43. Salt and its Uses in Agriculture. A Lecture delivered at the
Public Winter Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture at Pittsfield, December 7, 1869. Agric. of Mass.
1869, pp. 18-40.

44. The Blowpijje Manual. By Theodor Scheerer. Translated by
William S. Clark. Revised by Charles A. Goessmann.
Amherst: Storrs & McCloud. 1869. 12mo, pp. viii, 84.

1870

45. Contributions to the Chemistry of Common Salt: with par-
ticular reference to our home resources. A Pap)er read before
the National Academy of Sciences, Northampton meeting,
August 31, 1869. Amer. Joum. Sd. (2) vol. xlix. 1870, pp.
78-89.

46. Report on the Production of Beet-Sugar as an Agricultural
Enterprise in Massachusetts. Agric. of Mass. Supp. 1870, pp.
12-48; Eighth Report Mass. Agric. College, 1871, pp. 44-80,
4 plates; American Chemist, vol. i. 1871, pp. 381-387, 399-
404; Sugar Cane, Manchester, England, vol. m. 1871, pp.
257-263; Scientific American, vol. xxiv. 1871, pp. 231-232;
Amherst Record, April 12, 1871; Alta Commercial, April 26,
1871; N.Y. World, April 5, 1871; Fourth Report Nebraska
Board of Agric. 1873, pp. 85-120.

1871

47. Notes on Saline Deposits. Am£rican Chemist, vol. i. 1871, p.
442: Kainit. Amherst Record, March 29, 1871.

48. On Stassfurt Potash-Salts as Fertilizers. American Chemist,
vol. 11. 1871, pp. 5-7; Agric. of Maine, 1871, pp. 344-351;
Amherst Record, April 19, 1871.

49. Report on the Chemical Composition of some Dairy Products
(milk, butter and cheese). Trans. Hamp. Agric. Soc. 1871,
pp. 34-45; Agric. of Mass. Absir. 1871, pp. 305-317.

1872

50. Report on Sugar-Beets Raised upon the College Farm. Ninth
Report Mass. Agric. Coll. 1872, pp. 32-63; Amer. Chem. vol.
11. 1872, pp. 341-343. 378-383, 413-416; Sugar Cane, vol. iv.
1872, pp. 367-371, 469-473; The Grocer, London, May 11,

148 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

1872, p. 441: reprinted. New York: S. Angell, 1872. 12mo,
pp. 35; The Sugar Beet, Philadelphia, vol. i. 1880, pp. 6, 7.

51. Notes on Sugar-Beets for the Manufacture of Sugar. Amer-
ican CJiemist, vol. ni. 1872, pp. 11, 12, 64-66.

52. Historical Notes on the Progress of the Sugar-Beet Cultiva-
tion for the Manufacture of Sugar within the United States.
Amer. Chem. vol. iii. 1872, pp. 18, 19; Sugar Cane, vol. iv.

1872, pp. 513-516; Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, vol.
IV. 1878, pp. 632-638, 2 figures.

53. Abstracts and Notices of Papers in 'Wittstein's Viertel-
jahresschrift fiir praktische Pharmacie,' Bd. xxi. 1872.
American Chemist, vol. ii. 1872, pp. 393, 394.

54. Abstracts and Notices of Papers in * Wittstein's Viertel-
jahresschrift fUr praktische Pharmacie,' Bd. xxi. 1872.
American Chemist, vol. lu. 1872, pp. 74-76.

1873

55. Report of the Chemical Department, Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College. Tenth Annual Report, 1873, pp. 54, 55.

56. Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Tenth Report Mass. Agric.
Coll. 1873, pp. 58-84; Mass. Ploughman, March 15, 22, 29,
and April 5, 1873; Hitchcock's Geology of New Hampshire,
vol. I. 1874, pp. 554-558; Baird's Ann. Rec. Sd. & Ind. 1873,
pp. 418, 419: reprinted under the title, 'On the Fertilization
of Farm Lands with Reference to Commercial Fertilizers.'
Read at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Agricul-
tural Society at Albany, January 22, 1873. Joum. New York
State Agric. Soc. January and February 1873; Trans. New
York State Agric. Soc. vol. xxxii. 1873, pp. 254-265; Amer.
Chem. vol. iv. 1873, pp. 139-142, 180-185; Sugar Cane, vol.
VI. 1874, pp. 12-20, 62-78; Albany, N.Y.: Van Benthuysen,

1873. 12mo, pp. 26.

57. Statement concerning an examination of a sample of soil sent
by J. Sterling Morton ... of Nebraska. Fourth Report
Nebraska State Board of Agric. 1873, pp. 388-390.

58. On Some Home Resources of Fertilizers — with particular
reference to Nitrogen Plant-Food. A Lecture delivered at the
Public Winter Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture at Fitchburg, December 3, 1873. Agric. of Mass.
1873, pp. 112-132; Amherst Record, December 24, 1873; Mass.
Ploughman, March 28, 1874; Report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture for 1874, PP- 398-400; New Hampshire Agric.
1875, pp. 297-312.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 149

59. Experiments in the Cultivation of the Sugar-Beet Root in
the State of New York. Trans. New York State Agric. Soc.
vol. xxxn. 1873, pp. 163-169.

60. First Annual Report of the State Inspector of Fertilizers.
Read at Boston, February 4, 1874 (reviewed by Prof. A.
Stockhardt of Tharandt, Saxony). Agric. of Mass. 1873, pp.
352-374; Agric. of Maine, 1875, pp. 226-228; Baird's Annual
Record of Science and Industry for 1875, pp. 381, 382.

1874

•

61. Report on Experiments with Sugar-Beets. Eleventh Report
Mass. Agric. Coll. 1874, pp. 42-52; Report of the Commissioner
of Agriculture for 1873, pp. 307-309: reprinted under the title,
'Exi>eriments on the Cultivation of the Sugar Beet.' Amer'
ican Chemist, vol. iv. 1874, pp. 282-286; Sd. Farmer, vol. i.
1876, pp. 177, 204.

62. On the Best Mode of Subduing and Utilizing for Tillage the
Salt-Marshes in this State, after they are Drained. Read at
the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture at Boston, February 3, 1875. Agric. of Mass. 1874,
pp. 328-342; Sd. Fanner, vol. i. 1876, p. 226.

63. Second Annual Report of the State Inspector of Fertilizers.
Read at Boston, February 4, 1875. Agric. of Mass. 1874, pp.
351-393; Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1875,
p. 507; Baird' s Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1876,
pp. 372-375.

64. Abstracts and Notices of Papers in 'Wittstein's Viertel-
jahresschrift flir praktische Pharmacie,' Bd. xxii. 1873.
American Chemist, vol. iii. 1873, pp. 466, 467.

65. Abstracts and Notices of Papers in ' Wittstein's Vierteljahres-
schrift fUr praktische Pharmacie,* Bd. xxu. 1873. American
Chemist, vol. iv. 1873, pp. 37, 38.

1875

66. Paper on Commercial Fertilizers (being an abstract of official
reports for the years 1873 and 1874). Twelfth Report Mass.
Agric. Coll. 1875, pp. 66-76.

67. The Sources of Salt, with particular reference to our Home
Resources. American Grocer, New York, March 20, 1875.

68. On the Manufacture of Salt. American Grocer, April 3, 1875.

69. Coarse, Common Fine, and Dairy Salt. American Grocer,
April 10, 1875.

150 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

70. Dairy Salt. American Grocer, April 24, 1875; Set. Farmer,
vol. I. 1875, pp. 13, 14.

71. What Plants Feed On. I. (Notes from Professor Goessmann's
Lectures. The nine articles under this heading were reported
by E. H. Libby, co-editor of the Scientific Farmer). Set.
Farmer, vol. i. 1875, pp. 1, 2; 11. pp. 15, 16; III. p. 30.

72. Percentages of the more Essential Elements in some of the
Common Crops. Sd. Farmer, vol. i. 1875, p. 3.

73. Chemistry of Fertilization (Notes from Professor Goess-
mann's Lectures). Sci. Farmer, vol. 1. 1875, pp. 29, 30; II. p. 41.

• 74. What Plants Feed On. IV. The Sources of Nitrogen Plant
Food (Notes from Professor Goessmann's Lectures). Sci.
Farmer, vol. i. 1875, p. 42; V. p. 53.

75. Potash Salts (Abstract of Lecture). Sci. Farmer, vol. 1. 1875,
pp. 53, 54.

76. What Plants Feed On. VI. Potash as Plant Food (Notes from
Professor Goessmann's Lectures). Sci. Farmer, vol. i. 1875,
pp. 65, 66.

77. What Plants Feed On. VII. The Phosphates (Notes from
Professor Gbessmann's Lectures). Sci. Farmer, vol. i. 1875,
p. 77.

78. Second Report on the Salt-Marshes above the Mouth of
Green Harbor River, in the Township of Marshfield, Ply-
mouth County, Massachusetts. Read at the Annual Meeting
of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture at Boston,
February 2, 1876. Agric. of Mass. 1875, pp. 238-248.

79. Third Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. of
Mass. 1875, pp. 293-343; Sd. Farmer, vol. i. 1876, pp. 139,
150.

1876

80. Report on Work in Chemical Department, Massachusetts
Agricultural College (including report of D. P. Penhallow).
Thirteenth Annual Report, 1876, pp. 52-63.

81. What Plants Feed On. VIII. The Phosphates. 2 (Notes from
Professor Goessmann's Lectures). Sci. Farmer, vol. i. 1876,
p. 89.

82. What Plants Feed On. IX. Lime — in Plants — in Soils.
Sd. Farmer, vol. i. 1876, pp. 101, 102. '

83. Analysis of the Onion. A Contribution from the Chemical
Laboratory of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Sd.
Farmer, vol. i. 1876, p. 116; Mass. Ploughman, September 9,

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1876; Pharm. Joum. Trans. (3) vol. xvin. 1887, pp. 77, 78;
Joum. Chem. Soc. London, vol. mi. 1887, p. 1137.

84. Cooked vs. Raw Corn. Sci. Farmer, vol. i. 1876, p. 121.

85. On Special Fertilization. Mass. Ploughman, June 17, 1876.

86. Contribution to the Chemistry of American Grape Vines.
Mass. Ploughman, June 24, 1876.

87. Special Fertilizers. Contributions from the Chemical Labo-
ratory of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Mass.
Ploughman, July 15, 1876.

88. Composition of Cheese. Analyses of Whole Milk, Skim-Milk,
and Oleomargarine Cheese. Article I. Mass. Ploughman,
July 29, 1876.

89. Influence of Special Fertilizing Materials (Notes from Pro-
fessor Goessmann's investigations. E. H. Libby, reporter).
Sci. Farmer, vol. i. 1876, p. 161.

90. Influence of Special Fertilization. II. (Notes from Professor
Goessmann's investigations. E. H. Libby, reporter). Sci.
Farmer, vol. i. 1876, pp. 178, 179.

91. Urinary Secretions. A Contribution from the Chemical
Laboratory of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Mass.
Ploughman, August 12, 1876; Sci. Farmer, vol. i. 1876, p. 232.

92. Mineral Constituents of Urine (herbivorous animals). Mass.
Ploughman, August 19, 1876; ibid. August 26, 1876.

93. Influence of Sp)ecial Fertilizers. Plaster and Magnesia (Notes
from Professor Goessmann's investigations. E. H. Libby,
reporter). Sci. Farmer, vol. i. 1876, p. 191.

94. Grasses from Germany presented to the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College. Letter from Heinrich Keller of Darmstadt
(translated by C. A. Goessmann). Mass. Ploughman, Novem-
ber 18, 1876.

95. Article on Fertilizers. Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia,
vol. 11. New York, 1876, pp. 75, 76.

96. Third Report on the Improvement of Salt-Marshes. Read at
the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture at Boston, February 6, 1877. Agric. of Mass.
1876, pp. 219-225.

97. Fourth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. of
Mass. 1876, pp. 241-279; Set. Farmer, vol. u. 1876, p. 87.

1877

98. Report of the Chemical Department, Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College. Fourteenth Anniud Report, 1877, p. 30.

152 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

99. Is it Butter? (cited in reply of E. H. Libby to H. A. Mott).
Sci. Farmer, vol. n. 1877, p. 6.

100. German Forest Seeds. Mass. Ploughman, April, 1877.

101. Chemistry in Fruit Culture (strawberries and cherries). Mass.
Ploughmun, April 21, 1877.

102. Chemistry in Fruit Culture (plums, jjears, apples, etc.). Mass.
Ploughman, May 5, 1877.

lOS. Letter to the Editor, on How to make Manure. Daily Fredo-
nian. New Brunswick, N.J., May 16, 1877.

104. Recent Experiments with Sugar-cane in Louisiana. Mass.
Ploughman, June 9, 1877; AmJierst Record, September 19,
1877.

105. CompKMition of Cheese. Analyses of Whole Milk and Skimmed
Milk Cheese. Article II. Mass. Ploughman, June 30, 1877.

106. Letter to E. H. Libby, on the Transformation of Potash in the
Soil. Sci. Farmer, vol. ii. 1877, pp. 142, 143.

107. Application of Night-soil. Agric. of Mass. 1877, pp. 192, 193.

108. Fourth Report on the Improvement of the Salt-Marshes in
the Town of Marshfield. Read at Boston, February 5, 1878.
Agric. of Mass. 1877, pp. 253-257.

109. Fifth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. of
Mass. 1877, pp. 313-342.

1878

110. Contribution to the Chemistry of the American Grape-vine.
Read before the American Chemical Society at New York,
March 7, 1878. Fifteenth Report Mass. Agric. Coll. 1878, pp.
39-54; Baird's Ann. Rec. Sci. & Ind. 1878, pp. 551, 552; Proc.
Amer. Chem. Sac. vol. n. 1879, pp. 35-50.

111. On Experiments with Sugar-beet Roots. Mass. Ploughman,
January 19, 1878. Read April 4, 1878. Proc. Amer. Chem. Soc.
vol. II. 1879, pp. 56, 57.

112. Recent Experiments with Sugar-cane in Louisiana. Mass.
Ploughman, February 9, 1878.

113. Contributions from the Agricultural Laboratory. (Analyses
of onions, urinary secretions, mineral constituents of urine,
Owasco gypsum, cheese.) Read September 6, 1877. Proc.
Am£r. Chem. Soc. vol. i. pt. 2, 1878, pp. 60-66.

114. Chemistry in Fruit Culture. On the Growth and Composition
of the Concord Grape. Mass. Ploughman, March 30, 1878.

115. On Some Experiments with Wild Varieties of Grape-vines.
Mass. Ploughman, May 18, 1878.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 153

116. Influence of Girdling the Vines on the Growth of the Grap>es.
Mass. Ploughman, July 27, 1878; Joum. Amer. Chem. Soc.
vol. I. 1879, pp. 428, 429.

117. Chemistry in Fruit Culture (apples and pears). Mass. Plough-
man, August 24, 1878.

118. Chemistry in Fruit Culture (cranberries). Mass. Ploughman,
September 28, 1878; Joum. Amer. Chem. Soc, vol. 1. 1879, pp.
425-428.

119. Analyses of Phosphate of Lime. Scientific Farmer, vol. in.
1878, p. 142.

120. Article on Salt (including sea-water, rock-salt, brines, coarse
salt, and common fine salt or boiled salt). Johnson's New
Universal Cyclopaedia, vol. iv. New York, 1878, pp. 45-48.

121. Experiments with Com of Various Kinds; Nitrate of Soda
as a Source of Nitrogen for Plant-growth. Agric. of Mass.
1878, pp. 78-80.

122. Fifth Report on the Improvement of the Salt-Marshes in the
Town of Marshfield. Read February 4, 1879. Agric. of Mass.

1878, pp. 353-357.

123. Sixth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. of
Mass. 1878, pp. 310-348.

1879

124. Report on Early Amber Cane. To the Directors of the Massa-
chusetts Exp)eriment Station. Sixteenth Report Mass. Agric.
Coll. 1879, pp. 29-41, 1 plate; Amer. Joum. Sci. (3) vol. x\^I.

1879, p. 488; Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for
1881, Washington, 1882, pp. 486-489, pi, xxi.

125. Report on the Percolated Waters of the Lysimetre. Sixteenth
Report Mass. Agric. Coll. 1879, pp. 51-53.

126. Sugar Beet and Beet Sugar. Mass. Ploughman, May 31, 1879.

127. Remarks on the Sugar Beet, before the Berkshire Farmers'
Institute at Lee, June 11, 1879. Berkshire Courier, June 18,
1879.

128. Experiments with Strawberries. Mass. Ploughman, July 19,
1879; Joum. Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. i. 1879. pp. 423-425.

129. Chemistry in Horticulture. Address before the Worcester
County Horticultural Society, February 13, 1879. Mass.
Ploughman, July 26, 1879.

130. Report on Recent Experiments with Sugar-cane in Louisiana.
Read April 4, 1878. Proc. Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. ii. 1879, pp.
52-56.

154 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

131. Examination of the Minnesota Early Amber Cane. Joum.
Amer. Ckem. Soc. vol. i. 1879, pp. 44-50; Mass. Ploughman,
March 22, 1879.

132. On Experiments with Fertilizers upon Sugar-cane, at Calumet
Plantation, Bayou T^che, La. Read before the American
Chemical Society at New York, October 2, 1879. Joum.
Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. i. 1879, pp. 416-420: reprinted under
the title, * Sugar Manufacture from Sugar-cane in Louisiana.'
Mass. PUmghman, August 23, 1879.

133. Contribution from the Chemical Laboratory of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College (sugar in corn-stalks and
melons). Read before the American Chemical Society at
New York, October 2, 1879. Joum. Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. i.
1879, pp. 420-422; Mass. Ploughman, April 19, 1879; Oester-
reich. landw. Wochenbl. 5 Jahrg. 1879, Nr. 32, S. 344; Centr.
Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. ix. 1880, S. 122-124; Joum. Chem. Soc.
London, vol. xxxviii. 1880, p. 594.

134. Contribution to the Chemistry of Fruit Culture. Read before
the American Chemical Society at New York, October 2,
1879. Joum. Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. i. 1879, pp. 423-429.

135. Analysis of two Intestinal Calculous Concretions of the Horse.
Read before the American Chemical Society at New York,
October 2, 1879. Joum. Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. i. 1879,
p. 430.

136. The Relative Value of Several Varieties of Corn for Feeding
Purposes. A Lecture delivered at the Public Winter Meeting
of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture at Green-
field, December 4, 1879. Agric. of Mass. 1879, pp. 221-256,
figures; Joum. Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. ii. 1880, pp. 7-12.

137. Contributions to the Chemistry of Fruit-Culture (conjointly
with S. T. Maynard). Agric. of Mass. 1879, pp. 344-368,
figures.

138. On the Cultivation of the Sugar-Beet for the Manufacture of
Sugar (being a review of earlier investigations). Agric. of
Mass. 1879, pp. 378-402; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. viii.

1879, S. 816, 817; Joum. Chem. Soc. London, vol. xxxviii.

1880, p. 418.

139. Sixth Report on the Improvement of the Salt-Marshes in the
Town of Marshfield. Read February 3, 1880. Agric. of Mass.
1879, pp. 290-292.

140. Seventh Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. of
Mass. 1879, pp. 307-340.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 155

1880

141. Sugar Beet or Sorghum. Springfield Union, January 7, 1880;
Springfield Republican, January 8, 1880.

142. Contributions to the Examination of Eastern, Western, and
Southern Com. Joum. Amer. Cltem. Soc. vol. ii. 1880, pp.
7-12.

143. Oleomargarine as an Article of Food. Letter of Charles A.
Goessmann to the United States Dairy Company, March 20,
1880; Report of the Board of Health, City of New York, 1881,
p. 74; Bull. U.S. Dept. of Agric. Div. Chem. No. 13, 1887, pp.
19, 21; Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts
to the Legislature upon Oleomargarine, Senate Document No.
140, April, 1888, pp. 79, 80; Address of James F. Babcock,
before the Committee on Agriculture of the Massachusetts
Legislature, January 24, 1890, p. 6.

144. Atmospheric Fertilizers. Agric. of Mass. 1880, pp. 127, 128.

145. The System of Preserving Green Food in Silos. A Lecture
delivered at the Public Winter Meeting of the Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture at Southborough, December 2,
1880. Agric. of Mass. 1880, pp. 156-170; New Hampshire
Agric. 1880, pp. 139-152.

146. Seventh Report on the Improvement of the Salt-Marshes in
the Tov/n of Marshfield. Read February 1, 1881. Agric. of
Mass. 1880, pp. 195, 196.

147. Eighth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. of
Mass. 1880, pp. 217-245.

1881

148. Report of Chemical Department, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, Eighteenth Anniud Report, 1881, pp. 22, 23; Agric. of
Mass. 1880, pp. 140, 141.

149. On Ensilage. A Paper read at the Meeting of the Hampsliire
Farmers' Institute at Amherst, March 12, 1881. N.E. Home-
stead, March 19, 1881.

150. Letter on the Production of Seed Sugar Beets of Superior
Quality, April 25, 1881. The Sugar Beet, vol. ii. 1881, p. 37.

151. Inquiry touching the Cause of the Peach Yellows. Agric. of
Mass. 1881, pp. 84, 85.

152. Restitution as applied to Vegetable Growth; Sources of Pot-
ash. Agric. of Mass. 1881, pp. 143, 144.

153. Ninth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. qf
Mass. 1881, pp. 833-360.

156 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

1882

154. Report of Chemical Department, Massachusetts Agricultural
College. Nineteenth Annual Report, 1882, pp. 22, 23.

155. An Agricultural Exj)eriment Station for Massachusetts.
Statement of Charles A. Goessmann before the Committee
on Agriculture of the Massachusetts Legislature. Mass.
Ploughman, March 4, 1882.

156. On Mineral Constituents in Plant Growth. A Pap>er read
before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Boston,
March 18, 1882. Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. 1882, pp. 110-123;
Agric. of Mass. 1882, pp. 430-444: read also at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural
Science at Montreal, August 21, 1882. Proc. Soc. Prom.
Agric. Sci. vol. i. 1882, pp. 58-63; Montreal Daily Wiiness,
August 21, 1882.

157. Analysis of Eel-grass. Republican Standard, New Bedford,
July 13, 1882.

158. On Muriate of Potash as an Insecticide; On Feeding Apple
Trees; On Cattle Commissioners and Cattle Interests. N.E.
Homestead, July 15, 1882.

159. Observations regarding the Yellows of the Peach. Read at
Montreal, August 21, 1882. Proc. Soc. Prom. Agric. Sci. vol. i.
1882, pp. 63-66; Montreal Daily Witness, August 21, 1882;
Houghton Farm Expt. Dept. ser. in. nos. 1 and 2, pp. 29, 30.

160. The Influence of Chemistry on the Development of a Rational
System of Stock-Feeding. A Paper read at the Public Winter
Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture at
Northampton, December 5, 1882. Agric. of Mass. 1882, pp.
89-127; N.E. Homestead, December 9, 1882.

161. Tenth Annual Rep>ort on Commercial FertiUzers. Agric. of
Mass. 1882, pp. 345-382.

162. First Report of the Director of the State Agricultural Experi-
ment Station at Amherst. Agric. of Mass. 1882, pp. 405-418.

1883

163. Organization. Fodder Analyses. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 1. July, 1883, pp. 15.

164. Fertilizer Analyses. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 2.
August, 1883, pp. 8.

165. Fodder and Fertilizer Analyses. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 3. September, 1883, pp. 12.

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166. Fodder and Fertilizer Analyses. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 4. October, 1883, pp. 12.

167. Fodder and Fertilizer Analyses. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 5. November, 1883, pp. 12.

168. Scientific Stock Feeding. N.E. Homestead, November 24,
1883.

169. Fodder and Fertilizer Analyses. BiiU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 6. December, 1883, pp. 12.

170. Eleventh Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric. of
Mass. 1883, pp. 194-242.

171. First Annual Report of the State Agricultural Experiment
Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1883. 8vo, pp. 112, 4 diagrams.
Agric. of Mass. 1883, pp. 259-368.

172. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Kept.
Board of Health, Lun. and Char, of Mass. Supp. 1883, pp. 149,
150.

1884

173. Report of Chemical Department, Massachusetts Agricultural
College. Twenty-first Anniud Report, 1884, pp. 35-39; Agric.
of Mass. 1883, pp. 443-447.

174. Observations in Regard to Insects Injurious to the Apple
(S. T. Maynard); Experiments with Sf)ecial Fertilizers in
Fruit Culture; Experiments with Currants; Garden Crops;
Fertilizer Analyses. Bidl. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 7.
March, 1884, pp. 12; C^ntr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xiv. 1885,
S. 67; Joum. Chem. Soc. London, vol. xlviii. 1885, p. 589.

175. Fodder and Fodder Analyses; Valuation and Analyses of
Fertilizers. Bidl. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 8. April, 1884,
pp.12.

176. Notes upon Insects Injurious to Farm and Garden Crops
(S. T. Maynard); Fodder and Fodder Analyses; Fertilizer
Analyses. Bidl. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 9. May, 1884,
pp. 12; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xiv. 1885, S. 281.

177. Observations regarding the Vitality of the Seed of Various
Weeds, and the Causes of Certain Diseases of Grasses (S. T.
Maynard) ; Notes on Feeding Exp>eriments with Corn Ensi-
lage; Fodder and Fodder Analyses. Bidl. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 10. June, 1884, p. 12; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg.
XIV. 1885. S. 253, 254.

178. Notes on Feeding Exjjeriments with Corn Ensilage, contin-
ued; Fodder and Fodder Analyses; Fertilizer Analyses. BtdL
Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 11. September, 1884, p. 12.

158 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

179. Notes on Feeding Exi>eriments with Gluten Meal as a Con-
stituent of the Daily Diet of Milch Cows; Fodder and Fodder
Analyses. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 12. October,

1884, p. 12; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xiv. 1885, S. 287.

180. Notes on Feeding Experiments with Pigs; Fertilizer Analyses.
Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 13. November, 1884,
p. 12.

181. Twelfth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agri^;. of
Mass. 1884, pp. 285-329.

182. Second Annual Report of the State Agricultural Experiment
Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1884. 8vo, pp. 166. Agric. of
Mass. 1884, pp. 331-492.

183. Rep>ort of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Rept.
Board of Health, Lun. and Char, of Mass. Supp. 1884, pp. 194-
802.

1885

184. RepK)rt of Chemical Department, Massachusetts Agricultural
CoUege. Twenty-second Annual Report, 1885, pp. 21, 22;
Agric. of Mass. 1884, pp. 531, 532.

185. Fodder and Fodder Analyses; Valuation and Analyses of
Fertilizers. BvU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 14. March,

1885, pp. 12; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xv. 1886, S. 503.

186. Notes on Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows; Analyses of
Fodder Articles; Fertilizer Analyses; Meteorological Sum-
mary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 15. April, 1885,
p. 12. Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xiv. 1885, S. 859.

187. Fodder Analyses; Analyses of Garden Crops; Fertilizer
Analyses; Meteorological Summary. BuU.' Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 16. July, 1885, p. 12.

188. Fodder Analyses; Analyses of Fruits; Analyses of Weeds; Fer-
tilizer Analyses; Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric.
Expt. Stat. No. 17. August, 1885, p. 12.

189. Notes on Feeding Experiments with Pigs; Fodder Analyses;
Fertilizer Analyses; Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass.
Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 18. October, 1885, p. 20.

190. Rotation of Crop)s. A Lecture delivered at the Public Winter
Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture at
Framingham, December 2, 1885. Agric. of Mass. 1885, pp.
124-150. Read at Providence, January 14, 1886. Agric. of
Rhode Island, 1886, pp. 4-30.

191. Thirteenth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric.
of Mass. 1885, pp. 321-364.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 159

192. Third Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1885.
Pvblic Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 141.

193. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Rept.
Board oj Health, Lun. and Char, oj Mass. Supp. 1885, pp. 166-
173.

194. Manual of Agriculture for the School, the Farm, and the Fire-
side. By George B. Emerson and Charles L. Flint. Revised
by Charles A. Goessmann. New York: Orange Judd Com-
pany. 1885. 12mo, pp. iv, 284.

1886

195. Report of Chemical Department, Massachusetts Agricultural
College. Twenty-third Annual Report, 1886, pp. 23, 24.

196. Results of Inquiries conducted by the Health Department of
the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, relative to
the quality of milk as produced in Massachusetts. Boston,
February, 1886, passim.

197. Valuation and Analyses of Fertilizers; Meteorological Sum-
mary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 19. April, 1886,
pp. 12.

198. Fodder and Fodder Analyses; Fertilizers and Fertilizer
Analyses; Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 20. May, 1886, pp. 12.

199. Fodder Com and Com Ensilage; Fertilizers; Meteorological
Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 21. June, 1886,
pp.12.

200. Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows; Fodder and Fodder
Analyses; Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 22. October, 1886, pp. 12.

201. Objections to the Hatch Bill. Agric. of Mass. 1886, pp. 96, 97.

202. Fourteenth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric.
of Mass. 1886, pp. 335-394.

203. Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Exjjeriment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1886.
Public Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 136, 1 plate. Agric. of Mass.
1886, pp. 421-544.

204. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Rept.
Board of Health Mass. 1886, pp. 147-154.

205. Address at the Dinner of the New York Farmers, New York,
Thursday, January 20, 1887. Proceedings of the New York
Farmers, 1887.

160 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

1887

206. On Rational Fertilization of Garden Crops and Fruits. A
Paper read before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at
Boston, March 5, 1887. Trans. Mass. Hmt. Soc. 1887, pp.
171-183, 1 plate.

207. Trade Values of Fertilizing Ingredients in Raw Materials and
Chemicals; Fodder and Fodder Analyses; Meteorological
Summary. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 23. March,

1887, pp. 12.

208. Suggestions upon Planting Trees and Small Fruits (S. T.
Maynard) ; Fertilizer Analyses; Fodder and Fodder Analyses;
Meteorological Summary. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 24. April, 1887, pp. 12; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xvn.

1888, S. 355.

209. Notes on Feeding Exj)eriments with Pigs; Meteorological
Summary. BvJl. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 25. July, 1887,
pp. 16; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xvii. 1888, S. 259-262.

210. Food and Fodder Analyses; Fertilizers and Fertilizer Analy-
ses; Meteorological Summary. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 26. August, 1887, pp. 12.

211. Notes on Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows; Meteoro-
logical Summary. BvU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 27.
October, 1887, pp. 16; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xvii. 1888,
S. 258, 259.

212. The Hay-Field and English Hay. A Lecture delivered at the
Public Winter Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture at Springfield, December 7, 1887. Agric. of Mass.
1887, pp. 163-191; reprinted under the title, 'The Grass Crop
and its Relation to Farming.' Read at Providence, February
24, 1888. Agric. of Rhode Island, 1888, pp. 50-66.

213. Fifteenth Annual Report on Commercial Fertilizers. Agric.
of Mass. 1887, pp. 485-551.

214. Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1887.
Public Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 267, 4 plates, 4 plans, 2
maps. Agric. of Mass. 1887, pp. 555-802.

215. Rep>ort of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Kept.
Board of Health Mass. 1887, pp. 185, 186.

1888

216. Trade Values of Fertilizing Ingredients in Raw Materials and
Chemicals; Analyses of Fertilizers; Fodder Analyses; Meteor-

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 161

ological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stai. No. 28.
March, 1888, pp. 12.

217. The Work of the Massachusetts State Exp)eriment Station.
Address delivered at the Farmers' Meeting at Boston, April
21, 1888. Mass. Ploughman, May 5, 1888.

218. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, May
14, 1888, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. 1888, pp. 564, 565.

219. Fodder Analyses; Analyses of Roots; Meteorological Sum-
mary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 29. June, 1888,
pp. 12.

220. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, Jime,
1888, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. 1888, pp. 566, 567.

221. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, July,
1888, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. 1888, pp. 568, 569.

222. Notes on Feeding Experiments with Pigs; Meteorological
Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 30, August,

1888, pp. 16.

223. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst,
August, 1888, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. 1888, pp. 570, 571.

224. On Commercial Fertihzers; Analyses of Commercial Fertiliz-
ers and Manurial Substances. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stai.
No. 31. October, 1888, pp. 16.

225. Report of Analyses of Conunercial Fertilizers. Amherst,
October, 1888, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. 1888, pp. 572, 573.

226. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst,
November, 1888, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. 1888, pp. 574, 575.

227. Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1888.
Public Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 264, 15 plates, 3 plans,
2 maps. Agric. of Mass. 1888, pp. 413-658; Centr. Agrik.-
Chem. Jahrg. xvni. 1889, S. 526-531,

228. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts, Rept.
Board of Health Mass. 1888, pp. 101, 102.

1889

229. Instructions to Manufacturers, Importers, Agents and Sellers
of Commercial Fertilizers or Materials used for Manurial
Purposes in Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. February 1,

1889, pp. 1.

230. Record of Twelve Cows, which served for Experiments to
ascertain the Cost of Feed for the Production of Milk; Ana-
lyses of Fodder Articles; Meteorological Summary. Bull.

162 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Mass. Agric. Expt Stat. No. 32. February, 1889, pp. 12;
Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xviii. 1889, S. 719; Report of the
Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, 1889, pp. 520-522;
Joum. Chem. Soc. London, vol. lviii. 1890, p. 192.

231. On Commercial Fertilizers. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 33. March, 1889, pp. 12.

232. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, April,
1889, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1889, pp. 245, 246.

233. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, May,
1889, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1889, pp. 247, 248.

234. Department of Vegetable Physiology (J. E. Humphrey);
Creamery Record of the Station during the years 1887 and
1888; Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers; Meteoro-
logical Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 34. June,
1889, pp. 16; Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, Washing-
ton, 1889, pp. 520-522.

235. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, July,
1889, pp. 8. Agric. of Mass. App. 1889, pp. 251-254.

236. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst,
August, 1889, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1889, pp. 255, 256.

237. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, Sep-
tember, 1889, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1889, pp. 257, 258.

238. Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows; Meteorological Sum-
mary. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 35. November,
1889, pp. 12.

239. Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1889.
Public Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 333, 8 plates, 2 maps. Agric.
of Mass. 1889.

240. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Rept.
Board of Health Mass. 1889, p. 135.

1890

241. Girdling theGrape Vine; by S. T. Maynard (analyses only).
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 7. January, 1890, p. 5.
Analyses of Varieties of Sweet Corn. Ibid. p. 9.

242. Some Suggestions Regarding the Question — How can we
Improve in an Economical Way the Productiveness of our
Farm-Lands? Analyses of Com Ensilage; On Commercial
Fertilizers; Meteorological Summary. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 36. March, 1890, pp. 16; Report of the Secretary of
Agriculture, Washington, 1890, p. 523.

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243, Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, May,
1890, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1890, pp. 243, 244,

244, Soil Tests with Fertilizers; by W, P. Brooks (analyses only).
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 9. May, 1890,

245, Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, June,
1890, pp. 4, Agric. of Mass. App. 1890, pp. 245, 246,

246, Feeding Experiments with Lambs; Analyses of Fodder Arti-
cles; Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers; Meteorological Sum-
mary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 37, June, 1890, pp,
16; Centr. Agnk.-Chem. Jahrg. xxi, 1892, S. 96-100.

247, Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst,
August, 1890, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1890, pp. 249, 250,

248, Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows; Analyses of Commer-
cial Fertilizers, Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 38. Sep-
tember, 1890, pp. 12; Centr. Agrik.-Chem. Jahrg. xx. 1891,
S. 390-392.

249, Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers, Amherst,
November, 1890, pp, 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1890, pp. 255,
256.

250, Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1890.
Public Document No, 33. 8vo, pp. 324, 4 plates, 2 maps.
Agric. of Mass. 1890,

251, Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Kept.
Board of Health Mass. 1890, p. 444,

1891

252. Report on Strength of Rennet (W, P. Brooks). Bull. Hatch
Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 11, January, 1891, pp, 3-7, passim.

253. The Ensilage Question, Baltimore Weekly Sun, February 21,
1891.

254. Circular on Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, March, 1891,
pp.8.

255. Treatment of Fungous Diseases (J. E. Humphrey) ; Meteoro-
logical Summary. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 39. April,
1891, pp. 12, figures,

256. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers, Amherst, April,

1891, pp. 4. Agric. of Mass. App. 1891, pp. 265, 266.

257. Girdling Grapes; by Ja3ez Fisher (analyses only). Bull.
Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 13, April, 1891, pp. 11, 12.

258. Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, May,
1891, pp. 4, Agric. of Mass. App. 1891, pp. 267, 268.

164 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

259. Fertilizers for Corn; by W. P. Brooks (analyses only). BuU.
Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 14. May, 1891.

260. Some Diseases of Lettuce and Cucumbers (J. E. Humphrey) ;
Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers; Feeding Experiments
with Steers; Meteorological Summary. BuU. Mass. Agric.
Expt. Stat. No. 40. July, 1891, pp. 16; Cenir. Agrik.-Chem.
Jahrg. XX. 1891, S. 665-671; Joum. fur Landvnrthschaft, Bd.
XL. 1892, S. 193, 194.

261. Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows; Analyses of Com-
mercial Fertilizers; Meteorological Summary. BuU. Mass.
Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 41. September, 1891, pp. 16; Joum.
fur Landwirthschaft, Bd. XL. 1892, S. 194.

262. On the Breeding and Feeding of Swine. Agric. of Mass. 1891,
pp. 208-214.

263. Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1891.
Public Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 352, 2 plates, 2 maps.
Agric. of Mass. 1891.

264. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachuestts. Kept.
Board of Health Mass. 1891, pp. 697, 698.

1892

265. Analyses of Concentrated Feed Stuffs and Commercial Fer-
tilizers. Amherst, January, 1892, pp. 8.

266. Circular on Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, March, 1892,
pp.8.

267. Soil Tests with Fertilizers; by W. P. Brooks (analyses
only). BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 18. April,
1892.

268. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances.
Amherst, May, 1892, pp. 4.

269. Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows; Analyses of Fodder
Articles. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 42. June, 1892,
pp.16.

270. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances.
Amherst, July, 1892, pp. 4.

271. Winter Feeding Experiments with Lambs; Analyses of Com-
mercial FertiUzers and Manurial Substances; Meteorological
Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 43. August,
1892, pp. 12.

272. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. Amherst, September,
1892, pp. 4.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 165

273. Feeding Experiments with Steers; Meteorological Summary.
Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 44. October, 1892, pp. 16.

274. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances.
Amherst, October, 1892, pp. 4.

275. Home Raised Fodder Articles; Commercial Feed Stuffs. BuU.
Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 45. November, 1892, pp. 15.

276. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances.
Amherst, November, 1892, pp. 4.

277. Cattle Foods. Agriculture of Massachusetts, 1892, p. 51.

278. On the Work carried on at the Massachusetts State Agricul-
tural Exp>eriment Station during 1892. A Lecture delivered
at the Winter Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture at Sp)encer, December 8, 1892. Agric. of Mass.
1892, pp. 212-218.

279. Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1892.
Public Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 354, 5 plates, 2 maps.
Agric. of Mass. 1892.

280. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Kept.
Board of Health Mass. 1892, p. 651.

1893

281. Circular on Commercial Fertilizers (represents Bulletin 46).
Amherst, March, 1893, pp. 8.

282. Feeding Experiments with Pigs (J. B. Lindsey); Miscellane-
ous Fodder Analyses; Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass.
Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 47. May, 1893, pp. 16.'

283. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances.
Amherst, May, 1893, pp. 4.

284. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Fodder Articles;
Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No.

48. June. 1893, pp. 8.

285. Analyses of Commercial FertiUzers and Fodder Articles;
Meteorological Summary. BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No.

49. August, 1893, pp. 8.

286. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers; Miscellaneous Fodder
Analyses; Meteorological Summary. Bidl. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 50. October, 1893, pp. 8.

287. Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1893.
Public Document No. 33. Svo, pp. 407, 5 plates. Agric. of
Mass. 1893.

166 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

288. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Rept.
Board of Health Mass. 1893, pp. 687, 688.

1894

289. General Discussion on Commercial Fertilizers; Analyses of
Fodder Articles. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat. No. 51. March,
1894, pp. 8.

290. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers; Analyses of Fodder
Articles; Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 52. June, 1894, pp. 8.

291. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances;
Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 53. July, 1894, pp. 8.

292. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances;
Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 54. August, 1894, pp. 8.

293. Statement of Publications, previous to the Establishment of
U.S. Agricultural Experiment Stations, by C. A. Goessmann.
Prepared for the Use of the Oflfice of the U.S. Agr'l Experi-
ment Stations. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Amherst, August, 1894, pp. 4.

294. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances;
Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stai. No.
55. October, 1894, pp. 8.

295. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers; Analyses of Fodder Arti-
cles; Meteorological Smnmary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 50. November, 1894, pp. 8.

296. Experiments with the Horse Bean, Vetch and Similar Fodder
Plants. Agric. of Mass. 1894, pp. 154, 155.

297. Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Amherst, Mass. 1894.
Public Document No. 33. 8vo, pp. 487, 6 plates, 1 plan. Agric.
of Mass. 1894.

298. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Rept.
Board of Health Mass. 1894, pp. 755, 756.

1895

299. Analyses of Human Food Articles (Oats) ; Analyses of Fodder
Articles; Analyses of Manurial Substances; Trade Values;
Meteorological Summary. Bull. Mass. Agric. Expt. Stat.
No. 57. March, 1895, pp. 8.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 167

300. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances;
Trade Values. BuU. Hatch Expl. Stat. Mass. No. 30. June,
1895, pp. 8.

301. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances;
Trade Values. BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 31. July,
1895, pp. 8.

302. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers and Manurial Substances;
Trade Values. BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 32. August,
1895, pp. 8.

303. Analyses of Manurial Substances sent on for Examination;
Analyses of Licensed Fertilizers collected by the Agent of the
Station during 1895. Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 34.
October, 1895, pp. 8.

304. Agriculture in the Elementary Schools. Agric. of Mass. 1895,
p. 46.

305. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Kept.
Board of Health Mass. 1895, pp. 683-685.

1896

306. Report of the Chemist. Eighth Report Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass.

1896, pp. 111-162.

307. General Discussion on Commercial Fertilizers; Analyses of
Fertihzing Materials; Observations regarding the Composi-
tion of Paris Green; Observations concerning the Action of
Muriate of Potash on the Lime Constituents of the Soil. Bull.
Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 38. March, 1896, pp. 16.

308. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 40. July, 1896, pp. 20.

309. Analyses of Manurial Substances; Analyses of Licensed Fer-
tilizers; New Laws for the Regulation of the Trade in Com-
mercial Fertilizers in Massachusetts. BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. No. 42. October, 1896, pp. 31.

310. The Grass Crop. Bulletins of the Massachusetts Board of
Agriculture, published in Massachusetts Crop Reports, 1896.
Agric. of Mass. 1896, pp. 249-263.

31 L Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Kept.
Board of Health Mass. 1896, pp. 644, 645.

1897

812. Report of the Chemist. Ninth Report Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass.

1897, pp. 172-223.

168 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

313. General Discussion on Commercial Fertilizers; Analyses of
Fertilizing Materials sent on for Examination; New Fertilizer
Law. BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 45. March, 1897,
pp. 16.

314. On Field Experiments with Tobacco in Massachusetts. Bull.
Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 47. April, 1897, pp. 31.

315. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 48. July, 1897, pp. 24.

316. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 49. November, 1897, pp. 24.

317. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Kept.
Board of Health Mass. 1897, pp. 581, 582.

1898

318. Report of the Chemist. Tenth Report Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass.
1898, pp. 106-136.

319. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 51. February, 1898, pp. 12.

320. On the Value of Sulphate of Ammonia — a By-product of the
New England Gas and Coke Ovens at Everett. Boston Journal,
March 26, 1898, portrait; Mass. Ploughman, April 23, 1898;
N.E. Farmer, April 23, 1898.

321. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 54. July, 1898, pp. 24,
1 plate.

322. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 57. November, 1898, pp. 24.

323. Report of Analyst of Milk for Western Massachusetts. Rept.
Board of Health Mass. 1898, pp. 720, 721.

1899

324. Report of the Chemist. Eleventh Report Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. 1899, pp. 105-141.

825. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
BuU. Hatch Expt. Stai. Mass. No. 59. March, 1899, pp. 14.

326. Alma Mater, Dum Vivimus Te Salutamus! A Bouquet of
Souvenirs of Gottingen. 'Superior Scholarship.' American-
German Review, New York, vol. i. 1899, p. 167, portrait.

327. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 62. July, 1899, pp. 20.

328. Letter from MUnster, Germany, September 18, 1899. Aggie
Life, vol. X. October 4, 1899, pp. 21, 22.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 169

329. Letter from Gottingen, Germany, October 23, 1899. Aggie
Life, vol. X. November 29, 1899, pp. 66, 67.

330. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
BuU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 63. November, 1899, pp. 26.

1900

331. Report of the Chemist. Twelfth Report Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass.
1900, pp. 108-122.

332. Letter from Berlin, Germany, December, 1899. Aggie Life,
vol. X. February 7, 1900, pp. 100, 101.

333. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers;
Listructions regarding Samples of Materiab forwarded for
Investigation; Discussion of Trade Values of Fertilizing
Ingredients; Instructions to Manufacturers, Importers,
Agents, and Sellers of Commercial Fertilizers. Bull. Hatch
Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 65. March, 1900, pp. 14.

334. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 68. July, 1900, pp. 28.

335. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
BvU. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 70. November, 1900, pp. 26.

1901

836. Report of the Chemist. Thirteenth Report Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. 1901, pp. 55-70.

337. Analyses of Manurial Substances, of Paris Green and other
Insecticides; Laws for the Regulation of the Trade in Com-
mercial Fertilizers in Massachusetts. Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. No. 74. March, 1901, pp. 16.

338. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull' Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 75. July, 1901, pp. 24.

339. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 77. November, 1901, pp. 30.

1902

340. Report of the Chemist. Fourteenth Report Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. 1902, pp. 91-107.

341. Analyses of Fertilizing Substances sent on for Free Examina-
tion; ^\nalyses of Paris Green; Contribution on the Treatment
of Barnyard Manure with Absorbents (H. D. Haskjns). Bull.
Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 81. March, 1902, pp. 20.

342. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 83. July, 1902, pp. 24.

170 LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS

843. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 84. November, 1902, pp. 30.

1903

344. Report of the Chemist. Fifteenth Report Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. 1903, pp. 9-25.

345. Analyses of Manurial Substances; Discussion of Trade Values
of Fertilizing Ingredients; Discussion on the Ash Analyses of
Plants; Instructions regarding the Sampling of Materials sent
on for Examination. Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 89.
March, 1903, pp. 15.

346. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 90. July, 1903, pp. 30.

347. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 92. November, 1903, pp. 36.

1904

348. Report of the Chemist. Sixteenth Report Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. 1904, pp. 87-104.

349. Analyses of Fertilizing Substances; Notes on Barn-yard
Manure; Discussion of Trade Values of Fertilizing Ingredients.
Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat. Mass. No. 95. March, 1904, pp. 18.

350. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers;
Market Values of Fertilizing Ingredients. BuU. Hatch Expt.
Stat. Mass. No. 100. July, 1904, pp. 30.

851. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers;
Market Values of Fertilizing Ingredients. Bull. Hatch Expt.
Stat. Mass. No. 102. December, 1904, pp. 40.

1905

352. Report of the Chemist. Seventeenth Report Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. 1905, pp. 94-110.

353. Index Number. Massachusetts State Agricultural Experi-
ment Station. C. A. Goessmann, Director. Vol. 1-12. 1883-
1894. Amherst, Mass. Press of Carpenter & Morehouse,
1905. 8vo, pp. 44.

854. Analyses of Fertilizer Substances and Discussion of Trade

Values of Fertilizing Ingredients. Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat.

Mass. No. 103. March, 1905, pp. 20.
S55. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers;

Market Values of Fertilizing Ingredients. BuU. Hatch Expt.

Stat. Mass. No. 104. July, 1905, pp. 28.

OF CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 171

356. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers;
Market Values of Fertilizing Ingredients. Bull. Hatch Expt.
Stat. Mass. No. 107. December, 1905, pp. 42.

1906

S57. Report of the Chemist. Eighteenth Report Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. 1906, pp. 50-64.

358. Analyses of Fertilizer Substances, Refuse Materials and Soils,
of Paris Green and other Insecticides. Bull. Hatch Expt. Stat.
Mass. No. 109. March, 1906, pp. 23.

359. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers;
Market Values of Fertilizing Ingredients. BuU. Hatch Expt.
Stat. Mass. No. 111. July, 1906, pp. 28.

1907

360. Report of the Chemist. Nineteenth Report Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. 1907, pp. 65-81.

361. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fertilizers;
Market Values of Fertilizing Ingredients. Buti. Hatch Expt.
Stat. Mass. No. 113. January, 1907, pp. 30.

862. Analyses of Manurial Substances and Soils; Discussion of
Trade Values of Fertilizer Ingredients for 1907. Instructions
r^arding the Sampling of Materials to be forwarded for
Analyses (with H. D. Haskins). BuU. Mass. Agric. Expt.
Stat. No. 117. March, 1907, pp. 22.

NOTICES OF CHARLES ANTHONY
GOESSMANN

Letter of Friedrich Wohler to Justus Liebig, 16 March 1857. Aus
Justxis Liebig's und Friedrich Wohler's Briefwechsel 1829-1873.
Braunschweig 1888. Band ii. S. 39, 40. ^

The Amherst Record of May 21, 1868.

Courier and Union, Syracuse, N.Y., May 28, 1868.

Central Demokrat, Syracuse, den 26ten Dezember 1868.

Agriculture of Massachusetts for 1868-69, pp. 23-25, 118, 119, 122,
123. By William S. Clark and Louis Agassiz.

Address on American Contributions to Chemistry, at the meeting
to celebrate the Centennial of Chemistry, at Northumberland,
Perm., July 31, 1874. By Benjamin Silliman. American Chem-
ist, vol. V. 1874, pp. 112, 113.

Sixth Annual Repyort of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College, January 1869, p. 7. By William S. Clark.

The Catholic World Magazine, vol. lxvi. March 1898, pp. 856-858,
with portrait.

Poggendorff's Biographisch-Literarisches Handworterbuch zur
Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, Bd. iii. 1898, p. 529.
By H. Carrington Bolton.

A Sketch of Charles A. Goessmann. By Charles S. Walker. The
Springfield Union of June 30, 1900, p. 1, with j)ortrait.

Experiment Station Record, Washington, vol. xviii. 1907, pp.
1101-1104. By Edwin W. Allen.

Testimonial to Professor Goessmann, June 18, 1907. Address by
Charles Wellington. Forty-fifth Anniuil Report of the Massachu-
aetts Agricultural College, January 1908, pp. 56-60.

* ' As ^ teacher Wohler ranks with Liebig and Berzelius. In a sense he
was the greatest of the three. Berzelius never had the opportunity to
teach large numbers of students in his laboratory; and Liebig lacked the
nnany-sidedness so characteristic of the Gottingen laboratory as long as it
really was under Wohler's personal direction. One student might wish to
work on organic chemistry, another on minerals, a third on metallurgy,
a fourth on rare elements; let them all go to Wohler, and all, as well as
the fifth or sixth, would find themselves in the right place.' (William
Dittmar.)

174 NOTICES

A Tribute. By William H, Bowker. College and Alumni News, vol.
V. 1907, pp. 47-49, with portrait.

Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col-
lege, January 1908, pp. 95-98 (passim), 113-115. By William P.
Brooks.

Twentieth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, January 1908, pp. 5-9. By William P. Brooks.

The Index of the Class of 1909. Dedicated to Charles Anthony
Goessmann, with a tribute by Charles Wellington. (Vol. xxxix.
pp. 8-11, with portrait.)

The Springfield Republican of September 2, 1910, p, 11, with por-
trait.

The Springfield Union of September 2, 1910.

The Amherst Record of September 7, 1910,

Action of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College. The College Signal, vol. xxi. 1910, pp. 5, 6. By William
H. Bowker.

Memorial Service, Addresses by Kenyon L. Butterfield, Charles
Wellington, Winthrop E, Stone and Charles F, Chandler. The
College Signal, vol. xxi. 1910, pp. 1, 4-7; The Springfield Union,
October 12, 1910; The Springfield Republican, October 13, 1910.

Nature, London, vol. ixxxiv, 1910, p, 370.

Experiment Station Record, Washington, vol. xxin. 1910, pp.
401, 402. By Edwin W, Allen.

The American Chemical Journal, vol, xliv. 1910, pp. 475-477.
By Joseph S. Chamberlain.

Proceedings of the American Chemical Society, vol. xxxii. 1910,
pp. 131, 132, By Homer J, Wheeler,

Southern Ruralist, December 1, 1910, p, 16. By Horace E, Stock-
bridge,

Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, part 1, January 1911, pp, 14, 15. By Kenyon L.
Butterfield.

Twenty-third Annual Report of the Massachusetts Agricultural
Experiment Station, January 1911, pp, 13, 14, 80-85, with por-
trait. By Joseph B. Lindsey.

Sketch of Dr. Goessmann, McEvoy Magazine, January 1911, pp.
239-242, 286, By Thomas J, McEvoy.

Historical Records and Studies of the United States Catholic His-
torical Society, vol, vi. part 1, February 1911, pp, 131-159, with
portrait. By Frederick Tuckerman.

CHRONOLOGY

1827. Born at Naumbiirg, Electorate of Hesse-Cassel, Ger-
many, June 13.

1832-36, Attended public and private schools in Naumburg.

1836-42. At the Latin School in Fritzlar.

1842-46. Apprenticed to his cousin Louis Elith, apothecary in
Gudensbei^, Hesse-Cassel, 28 March 1842 to March
1846.
1846. Passed examination as assistant in pharmacy, before
the Kurf : Hess: Ober-Medizinal-Kollegium zu Kassel,
February 24.

1846-47. Assistant to Julius Post, University Apothecary, G<it-
tmgen, April 1846 to April 1847.

1847-48. Assistant to Paul Duckeissen (Engel-Apotheke) , Mainz,
Grand Duchy of Hesse, April 1847 to October 1848.
1848. Received as a member of the Pius-Verein fiir religiose
Freiheit zu Mainz, April 5.

1848-50. Assistant to Th. Jacobi, apothecary, Fulda, Hesse-
Cassel, 1 October 1848 to 31 March 1850.

1850. Entered the University of Gottingen at Easter, 27
April 1850, matriculating in the philosophical faculty
as a student of pharmacy — Joh. Karl Ludw. Gieseler,
ProredoT.

1851. Appointed assistant in analytical chemistry, under
Professor Staedeler, October 18.

1852. Passed examination as apothecary in Hessen-Kassel
(Kurhessen), before the Kurf: Hess: Ober-Medizinal-
Kollegium, March 23.

1852. Appointed second assistant in the Chemical Labora-
tory, Gottingen, June 8.

1852. Presented a dissertation, Ueber die Bestandtheile der
Canthariden, and on December 27 received the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy.

1853. Inaugural-Dissertation printed, a synopsis of which,
entitled Ueber die Natur des Fettes der Canthariden,
appeared the same year in Wohler, Liebig und Kopp's
Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie.

176 CHRONOLOGY

1854. Published the results of his research on the conversion
of thialdine into leucin. HaMlitationsschrift.

1854. Read a paper before the meeting of German Natural-
ists and Physicians at Gottingen, in September, en-
titled Ueber Leucin und Essigsaure-Aldehyd.

1855. Appointed Privatdocent in chemistry and pharmacy
for one year, in the Philosophical Faculty, Gottingen,
February 24.

1855. Succeeded Heinrich Limpricht as first assistant in the
Chemical Laboratory, Gottingen.

1855. Elected a corresponding member of the Physico-
Medical Society of Erlangen, Bavaria, May 19.

1856. Appointed Privatdocent in the Philosophical Faculty
of the University of Gottingen, tenia legendi, January
29.

1856. Attended the annual meeting of the German Natural-
ists and Physicians at Vienna, September 16-24.

1857. Granted a three years' leave of absence by the Univer-
sity, at the close of the winter semester, in order to
study the chemical industries of France, England, and
the United States.

1857. Sailed from Bremen for New York, May 12.

1857. First paper on sugar. Published in Wohler und Liebig's
Annalen.
1857-60. Chemist and General Superintendent of the Eastwick
Brothers' Steam Sugar Refinery, Philadelphia. Re-
signed December 1, 1860.

1860. Visited Cuba for the purpose of studying the agricul-
tural industries of the West Indies, esjiecially the manu-
facture and refining of sugar. 3 December 1860 to 21
March 1861.

1861-68. Chemist to the Salt Company of Onondaga, Syracuse,
New York, April 1861 to December 1868.

1861. Elected an honorary member of the Chemical Society
of Union College, October 21.

1862. Address on the Nature of the Chinese Sugar-cane, deliv-
ered before the New York State Agricultural Society,
in February.

1862. Married October 22, at Syracuse, New York, Mary

Anna Clara Kinny,
1862. Visited Saginaw, Michigan, in October, to examine the

brines and saline deposits.
1862. First paper on brines and salines.

CHRONOLOGY 177

1862-64. Taught Chemistry at the Rensselaer Polytechnic In-
stitute at Troy, New York. Elected Professor of
Chemistry and Physics at the Institute, July 9, 1863.

1863. Elected a corresponding and honorary member of the
New York State Agricultural Society, in January.
Date of certificate, February 12.

1863. Elected a corresponding member of the Buffalo Soci-
ety of Natural Sciences, May 7.

1865. Elected a corresponding member of the New York
Academy of Sciences (formerly the Lyceum of Natural
History), October 2.

1866. Appointed Consulting Correspondent of the American
Biu-eau of Mines, New York, March 10.

1866. Commissioned by the Board of Experts of the Ameri-
can Bureau of Mines to visit Louisiana and investigate
the rock-salt deposit of Petite Anse Island, New Iberia,
on Vermihon Bay, October 30.

1867. Made two visits to Canada, in June and December
respectively, for the purpose of ascertaining the extent
of the saUne resources and the quality of the brines,
especially at Goderich.

1868. Elected Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, May 12, and entered upon his
duties in December.

1868. Admitted as a citizen of the United States of America,
October 23.

1869. Elected a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Salem meeting, August 18.

1869. Address on the Chemistry of Common Salt, delivered be-
fore the National Academy of Sciences, Northampton
session, August 31.

1869. Address on Salt and its Uses in Agriculture, delivered
before the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture,
December 7. Goessmann's earliest paper on fertiliza-
tion.
1870-74. Exp)eriments on the cultivation of the sugar beet.

1873, Appointed Chemist of the State Board of Agriculture
of Massachusetts, February 4.

1873. Enactment of the First Fertilizer Law in the United
States, passed and approved May 26. Of this law
Goessmann was the prime author.
1879-1910. Ex officio a member of the State Board of Agriculture
and State Inspector of Fertilizers, May 26, 1873.

178 CHRONOLOGY

1874. Member of the General Committee of American Chem-
ists, chosen to commemorate the one hundredth anni-
versary of the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley.

1874-80. Systematic investigation of the chemical and physical
condition of the salt marshes of the State.

1875. Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the

Advancement of Science, Detroit meeting, August 17.

1876. Original member of the American Chemical Society
and elected Vice-President, November 2.

-1880. Elected State Agricultural Chemist of North Carolina
and Director of the Experiment Station at Chapel
Hill, March 2.
1880. Original member of the Society for the Promotion of
Agricultural Science, August 24.

1880-81. Chairman of the Association of Agricultural Chemists
— later the Association of OflBcial Agricultiu*al Chem-
ists of the United States.

1881-82. Member of the Committee appointed by the National
Academy of Sciences to investigate the Scientific and
Economic Relations of the Sorghum-sugar Industry in
the United States.

1881-82. Vice-President of the American Chemical Society.

1882. Elected a member of the Virginia Historical Society,
June 16.

1882-95. Director and Chemist of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural Experiment Station. Appointed November 9,
1882.

1883. Member of the American Metrological Society.
1883-1904. Analyst to the State Board of Health of Massachu-
setts.

1885. Delegate to the First Convention of Agricultural Col-
leges and Experiment Stations, at Washington, July
8 and 9.

1886. Elected Chemist to the Bay State Agricultural Society,
March 1.

1887. President of the American Chemical Society. Elected
December 3, 1886.

1888-95. Member of the Board of Control of the Massachusetts
Agricultural Experiment Station.
1889. Elected a corresponding member of the Massachusetts

Horticultural Society, April 6.
1889. Degree of Doctor of Laws conferred by Amherst Col-
lege, July 2.

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1889. Foreign member of the Committee on Plant Food,
Allgemeine land- und forstwirthschaftliche Ausstel-
lung, Wien 1890.

1892. Appointed a member of the Advisory Coimcil on Chem-
istry of the World's Congress AnxiUary of the Colum-
bian Exposition, December 12.
1892-95. Treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi-
ment Station.

1894. Member of the American Lavoisier Committee for the
erection in Paris of a monument to Antoine-Laurent
Lavoisier.

1895. Appointed Honorary Director of the Experiment Sta-
tion, Massachusetts Agricultural College, April 16.

1898. Elected a member of the American Statistical Associa-
tion, January 21.
1899-1900. In August 1899 Dr. Goessmann, accompanied by his
family, revisited the Fatherland after an absence of
forty years, remaining abroad until the following June.
He went also as an honorary representative of the
United States Department of Agriculture to the Ger-
man Empire, and as a delegate of the American Chem-
ical Society to the unveiling of the statue of Antoine-
Laurent Lavoisier in Paris.
1899-1910. Member of the Council of the American Chemical
Society.

1900. Elected a member of the Washington Academy of
Sciences, January 9.

1900. Member of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science.

1907. Resigned the Professorship of Chemistry in June, re-
tiring on a pension from the Carnegie Foundation.

1907. Presented by his pupils with a stained-glass window,
June 17, commemorative of forty years of service at
the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

1907. Resigned as Chemist of the Experiment Station, Mass-
achusetts Agricultural College, and appointed Consult-
ing Chemical Expert, July 1.

1908. Professor of Chemistry, EmerittLS, June 16.

1910. Portrait of Dr. Goessmann presented to the College by

the Alumni, June 21.
1910. Died at Amherst, September 1.

INDEX

INDEX

Agardh, Karl A., 15.

Agassiz, Louis, 1, 3, 30, 31, 32, 33,
36 37 173.

Allen, Edwin W., 178, 174.

Alsberg, Meinhard, 34, 125.

American Academy erf Arts and
Sciences, 98.

American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, 98, 177, 178.

American Bureau of Mines, 22, 177.

American Chemical Society, 98, 99,
100, 178, 179.

Amherst College, 29, 99, 135, 178.

Arago, Francois, J. D., 139.

Arfvedson, Johann A., 15.

Association of Agricultural Chemists,
97, 178.

Atkinson, Edmund, 12, 143.

Atwater, Wilbur O., 36.

Austro-Prussian War, 128.

Babcock, James F., 155.

Baer, Karl Ernst von, 3.

Baeyer, Adolf von, 133.

Baker, George M., 52.

Barker, George F., 34.

Bartling, Friedrich G., 6, 115, 116,

134.
Baum, FrSulein Augusta, 117.
Baum, Wilhelm, 122.
Beiistein, Friedr. K., 121, 128. '
Bell. Jacob, 140.
Berthelot, Marcellin, 11, 143.
Berthold, Arnold A., 122.
Berzelius, Jons J., Baron, 15, 16, 17,

122 173.
Biallo'blotzky. Fr., 114.
V. Bobers, 117.
Bode, Dr., 116.

Boedeker. Karl, 112. 117, 120, 122.
Bohtz, August W., 6.
Bolton, H. Carrington, 34, 173.
Booth, James C, 118, 114, 116, 118,

128. 135.
Borke, Baron von, 2.

Botanical Garden at Gottingen, 116,

128; at MUnchen, 116.
Boussingault, Jean-Baptiste, 11. 40,

53. 54, 139.
Bowker, William H., 103, 174.
Brewster, Sir David, 140.
Brinsmade, Thomas C, 25.
Brongniart, Adolphe T., 15.
Brongniart, Alexandre, 15.
Brooks, William P., 81, 83, 85. 86,

88, 90, 163. 164. 174.
Buchner, Ludwig A., 17.
Buff, Heinrich, 112.
Bunsen, Robert W., 17.
Butterfield, Kenyon L., 104, 174.

Cahours, Auguste, 11.

Caldwell, George C, 12, 14, 15, 100,

143.
Carmichael, Henry, 180.
Chadbourne, Paul A., 87.
Chamberlain. Joseph S., 174.
Chandler, Charles F., 8, 14, 15, 25,

84. 99. 100, 104, 174.
Chandler, William H., 34.
Chemical Laboratory, Gottingen,

6-8. 10, 116, 117, 119-121, 124,

127, 128, 138, 173, 175. 176.
Chevreul. Michel E., 139.
Child, Edwm B.. 103.
Clark. William S., 14, 28, 29. 30, 31,

33, 36. 39. 40, 41, 60, 113, 116,

134, 135. 147. 173.
Conradi, Johann W. H., 122.
Cook, George H., 20, 22, 96.
Crookes. Sir William, 189.
Cummings, Rev. Dr., 105.

Darmstadt, Matth.. 129, 181.
Davis, Charles G., 86.
Davy, Sir Humphry, 5. 15.
Dean, John, 15. 100.
Despretz, C^sar M., 114.
Deutsche Naturforscher und Aerzte,
meeting at Gottingen, 9, 142, 176;

184

INDEX

at Vienna, 9, 176; at Karlsruhe,

114.
Deville, H. Sainte-Claire, 17. 112, 113.
DUIon, John C, 46.
Dirichlet. See Lejeune-D.
Dittraar. William, 173n.
Dollinger, Ignatius, 3.
Dollinger, Johann von, 3.
Doltz, Architect, 117, 121.
Drowne, Charles, 26.
DUckeissen, Paul, 175.
Dumas, Jean-Baptiste, 8, 11, 139,

142.

Eastwick Brothers' Sugar Refinery,
18, 20, 111, 113, 115, 176.

Eastwick, Edward P.. 15, 16.

Eastwick, Joseph H., 15, 16, 100.

Eastwicks, the, 113, 114. 118, 123.

Egleston, Thomas, 34.

Elderhorst, William, 25.

Elith, Louis C, 175.

Emerson, George B., 159.

Engelhardt, Francis E., 113, 116,
119, 130.

Engelmann, George, 1.

Erdmann, A., 144.

Erdmann, Otto L., 17. 140.

Erlangen, University of, 8, 176.

Esmark, Jens, 15.

Faber, Rev. Frederick W., 104.
Fabian, Chr., 116.
Faraday, Michael, 106.
Fehling, Hermann von, 17.
Fertilizer inspection, 35, 58-63, 177.
Fisher, Jabez, 163.
Fittig. Rudolf, 116, 121, 128. 133.
Flint, Charles L., 36, 41, 60, 159.
Flilgel, Carl F. A., 129.
Fownes, George, 12.
Francis. William, 139, 140.
French Academy of Sciences, 8, 11.
Frerichs, Friedrich T., 11.
Fresenius, Carl R., 140.

Garrigues, Samuel S., 14. 22, 113,

114, 116.
Gay-Lussac, Joseph L. G., 139.
Genth, Friedrich A., 1.
Grerman Naturalists and Physicians,

meeting of, 9, 114, 142, 176.
Geuther. Anton. 14, 112, 116, 117,

118, 121, 122, 124. 125.

Gieseler, Joh. K. L., 175.
Gillingham, C, 113, 116.
Goessmann, Agnes R.. 26.
Goessmann, Charles Anthony —
birth, 4;

early education, 4, 5;
enters the University of Gottin-

gen, 5;
receives his degree, 7;
privcUdocent at Gottingen, 8;
arrival in America, 18;
chemist at Philadelphia, 18-20;
visits Cuba, 20;
chemist to the Salt Company of

Onondaga, Syracuse, 20-21;
visits Michigan, 22;
visits Ix)uisiana, 22;
visits Canada, 22-23;
elected professor of chemistry and
physics at the Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute, Troy, 25;
marriage, 26;

elected professor of chemistry at
the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 28;
appointed chemist of the Massa-
chusetts Board of Agriculture,
35;
appointed State Inspector of Fer-
tilizers, 35;
appointed director and chemist,
Massachusetts Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, 43;
chosen president of the American

Chemical Society, 98;
receives degree of LL.D. from Am-
herst College, 99;
visit to Europe, 100;
resigns professorship of chemistry,

101;
death, 104.
Goessmann, Charles I., 26.
Goessmann, Heinrich, 2, 3, 4, 5, 127,

134.
Goessmann, Helena Henslinger-Boe-

diger, 4.
Goessmann, Helena T., 26.
Goessmann, Henry E. V., 26.
Goessmann, Joseph, 1, 2.
Goessmann, Louis E., 26.
Goessmann, Mary F., 26.
Goessmann, Mrs. (Mary A. C.

Kinny), 26, 176.
Goessmann, Philip, 2.

INDEX

185

GSttingen, University of, 5, 6, 14-

16, 99-103, 133, 175, 176.
Goodman, Richard, 41.
Graham, Thomas. 122.
Grandeau, Louis N., 114.
Graz, University of, 2.
Greifswald, University of, 121.
Griepenkerl, Friedrich, 100.
Grouven, Hubert, 55, 72.
Gurley, William, 26.
Guyot, Arnold, 1.
Guzman. See Goessmann.

Hague, James D., 15, 99, 100.
Haidinger, Wilhelm, 9.
Hanssen, Georg, 122.
Hansteen, Christoffer, 15.
Harris, Elijah P., 116.
Hart, Thomas E., 123.
Haskins, Henri D., 169, 171.
Hausmann. Johann F. L., 6, 121, 122.
Heintz, Wilhelm H., 10.
Henneberg, Johann Wilhelm J., 19,

72, 115, 139.
Henslinger-Boediger, Helena, 4.
Herzogliche Technische Hochschule,

Braunschweig, 27, 123.
Hilgard. Eugene W., 23, 96.
Hisinger, Wilhelm, 15, 16.
Hitchcock, Edward, 37, 107.
Hofmann, August W. von, Sn, 17,

129.
Hubner, Hans, 128, 138.
Hughes, Angela, 26.
Hughes, Archbishop, 26.
Humphrey, James E., 43, 162, 163,

164.
Hungerford, Edward, 14, 100.
Hunt, T. Sterry, 24.
Hurtzig, 112.

Jacobi, Th., 175.
Jena, University of, 124.
Johnson, Samuel W., 68, 96.
Joy, Charles A., 14, 34, 116, 119,
121, 124, 125.

Kaiser. Fr&ulein. 2.
Kane. Sir Robert, 140.
Kedzie, Robert €., 41, 96.
Keller, Heinrich, 151.
Kinny. Edward, 26.
Knowlton, William, 86.
Kobell, Franz von, 9.

Koch, Robert, 87.

Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissen-

schaften, Gottingen, 112, 122.
Kopp, Hermann, F. M., 112, 139.
Komrumpf, Frau, 130, 132, 134,

135.
Kreuzhagen, Frau, 126.
Kreuzhagen, Fraulein Anna, 126.
Kuhlmann, FrWeric, 114.
Kurf. Hess. Ober-Medizinal-Kolle-

giimi, 7, 175.

Langensalza, battle of, 128.
Lantzius-Beninga, B. S. H., 6.
Laurent, Auguste, 12.
Lavoisier, Antoine L., 53, 100, 179.
Lawes, Sir John B., 40, 41.
Ledoux, Albert R., 97.
Lehmann, Karl G., 124.
Lejeune-Dirichlet, G., 122.
Leopold Academy, 119.
Lesquereux, Leo, 1.
Leydolt, Franz, 9.
Libby. Edgar H.. 150, 151, 152.
Liebig, Justus, Baron von, 5, 9, 16,

17, 53, 54. 114, 119, 133, 139. 178.
Limpricht, Heinrich. 8, 11, 112, 114,

116, 117, 121, 122, 176.
Lindsey, Joseph B.. 43, 165, 174.
Little, George, 116.
Loring, George B., 36.
Lyceum of Natural History, New

York, 177.

Magee, James F., 15, 100, 118.

Magnus, Gustav, 17.

Mallet, John W., 14, 100.

Manross, Newton S., 135.

Marburg, University of, 8, 6, 127,
134.

Marsh, Ebenezer, 14.

Martins, Kari F. P. von, 9, 116.

Massachusetts Agricultural College,
28-33. 177, 179.

Massachusetts Agricultural Experi-
ment Station, 42-43, 70-96, 178-
179.

Massachusetts Experiment Station,
39-42.

Massachusetts State Board of Agri-
culture, 30, 33, 35-37, 59-62, 99,
177.

Massachusetts State Board of Health,
98, 177.

186

INDEX

Maynard, Samuel T., 39, 43, 6Sn,

154, 167, 160, 162.
McEvoy, Thomas J., 174.
Meissner, Georg, 122.
Merkel, Burgomaster, 133.
Miles. Manly, 41, 43, 70.
Mitscherlich, Eilhard, 10, 17.
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 99.
Morton, J. Sterling, 148.
Mott, Henry A., 152.
Mlinchen, University of, 133.
Mumm, Baron von, 2.

Nason, Henry B., 14, 15, 25, 100.
National Academy of Sciences, 33,

97, 147, 177, 178.
Newberry, John S., 24.
Newman, Cardinal, 104.

New York Academy of Sciences, 24,

98, 177.

New York State Agricultural So-
ciety, 19, 47, 144, 148, 176, 177.

Nichols, James R., 59.

Nickl^s, Jer6me, 114.

Niemann, A., 119.

Nilsson, Sven, 15.

North Carolina Experiment Station,
97, 178.

Novara, the, 120.

Oersted, Hans C, 15.
Oesterley, Carl, 117.
Oken, Lorenz, 9n.
Otto, Friedrich J., 122.

Parkman, Theodore, 123.
Peabody, Selim H., 39.
Pelouze, Theophile J., 5, 139.
Penhallow, David P., 38, 40, 69n,

150.
Petersen, Carl Th., 144.
Pettenkofer, Max von, 17.
Physico-Medical Society of Erlan-

gen. 8, 176.
Porter, Charles H., 22.
Post, Julius, 5, 175.
Pourtales, Frangois, Comte de, 1.
Prescott, Albert B., 98.
Priestley, Joseph, 178.
Pugh, Evan, 14, 15, 41, 100, 116.

Rammelsberg, Karl F. A., 17.
Redtenbacher, Josef, 9.
Regnault, Henri V., 139.

Reichenbach, Karl, Baron von, 9.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

Troy, 25. 177.
Retzius, Christian, 15. 16.
Riemann, Bemhard, 122.
Rinteln, 119.

Ritter, Geh. Hofr. Heinrich, 7.
Rose, Heinrich, 5. 17.
Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen,

112, 122.

Sainte-CIaire Deville, Henri, 17,
112, 113.

Salt Company of Onondaga, Syra-
cuse, 20-26, 176.

Sargent, Charles S., 36.

Sartorius von Waltershausen, W.,
6. 118, 121.

Schafhautl, Carl E. von, 9.

Scheerer, Theodor, 33, 147.

Scheven, H., 12. 142.

Schleiden, Matthias, J., 116.

Schleswig-Holstein War, 128.

Schonbein, Christian F., 17.

Schonlein, Johann L., 9.

Schrotter, Anton. 9.

Schwanert, Franz Hugo, 115, 116.

Schwarzenberg, Oberbergrath, 123.

Senarmont, Henri de, 139.

Seyfert, Dr., 124.

Shepard, Charles U., 135.

Silliman, Benjamin, 173.

Societas Physico-Medica Erlangen-
sis, 8, 176.

Society for the Promotion of Agri-
cultural Science, 98, 178.

Specht, C, 140.

Spiegelberg, Otto. 114.

Spratt, Mrs. Agnes R., 26.

Staedeler. Georg A. K.. 6. 7, 175.

Steams, William A., 28.

Steffens, Heinrich, 15.

Stenhouse, John, 11.

Stephani, Herr, 113, 114, 116.

Stewart, A. P. S., 116. 123.

Stockbridge, Horace E., 174.

Stockbridge, Levi, 36, 39, 40, 41,
42.

Stockhardt, Julius A., 35, 149.

Stohmann, Friedr. C. A., 72.

Stone, Winthrop E.. 104, 174.

Storrs, Henry E., 131.

Strassburg, University of, 133.

Sturtevant, Joseph N., 36.

INDEX

187

Taylor, Richard, 140.
Taylor, William H., 69.
Troost, Louis J., 114.
Tuckerman, Frederick, 103, 174.
Tubingen, University of, 133.
Tuttle, David K., 15, 100.
Tyndall, John, 140.

Uslar, Louis von, 116, 121, 128,
133.

Virchow, Rudolf, 11.
V^ogel, August, 9.

Wagner, Rudolf, 118, 122.
Wagram, battle of, 2.
Waldeck-Pyrmont, Prince of, 2.
Walker, Charles S., 173.
Waltershausen. See Sartorius vonW.
Ward, Andrew H., 60.
Weber, Wilhelm E., 6.

Webster, Noah, 107.
Weld, Mason C, 59.
Wellington, Charles, 103, 104, 173,

174.
Werther, August F. G., 140.
Weyman, George W., 14.
Wheeler, Homer J., 103, 174.
Wicke, Wilhelm, 112, 114, 117, 120,

122.
Wiggers, Heinrich A. L., 6.
Wilder, Marshall P., 36, 37.
Wbhler, Friedrich, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11,

14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 25, 27, 30, 44,

101; letters of, 111-135, 139, 142,

144, 173.
Wohler, Frl. Helena, 100.
Wohler, Frl. Sophia, 100.
Wolff, Emil, 41, 72.
Wrede, Ernst F., Baron, 15.
WUrzburg, University of, 3.
Wurtz, Charles A., 9n, 139.

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