I can not but think that too little has been made of Professor Storer's scientific services to agriculture. Of the multitude who know nothing of his work this was not to be expected, but from the American agriculturist, plant physiologist, agricultural chemist, etc., it can command nothing but gratitude and respect. At the April meeting in 1907 of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the resignation of Francis Humphreys Storer as Professor of Agricultural Chemistry of Harvard University, and Dean of the Bussey Institution, was accepted. The minutes of that meeting on the services of Professor Storer are as follows: "The services of Professor Storer to the Bussey Institution began with his appointment to the Professorship of Agricultural Chemistry on November 25, 1870, and have continued without any intermission to the present day. They comprehended stated teaching in the lecture room and laboratory; the production of a comprehensive and durable treatise on Agricultural Chemistry; and the general administration of the Institution, including its library and Bulletin. As a teacher, Professor Storer was highly interesting and helpful, because of his wide range of knowledge and his wealth of illustrative material. As an administrator, he was diligent, frugal in expenditure, and especially sympathetic with students whose means and attainments were limited, and whose early opportunities had been few. He devoted himself without reserve to the Bussey Institution in spite of the fact that the Boston fire in 1872 greatly and permanently reduced its resources and changed its prospects." Office of Expt. Stations, U. S. Dep't of LEWIS WILLIAM FETZER. Agriculture, and Georgetown University, PUBLICATIONS OF FRANCIS HUMPHREYS STORER Bulletins of the Bussey Institution PAGE 8 PAGE Record of results obtained on analyzing American "shorts" and "middlings," with remarks on the composition of bran.... 25 Agricultural value of the ashes of anthracite .. 50 Institution: First Report; results obtained in 1871........ 80 Record of trials of fertilizers upon the plain-field: Second Report; results obtained in 1872 .... 103 Record of trials of fertilizers upon the plain-field: Third Report; results obtained in 1873. With a review of the three years' course of experiments .. Analyses of several foreign superphosphates of lime, with remarks 116 on the cost of importing superphosphates from Europe... 170 On the valuation of the soluble phosphoric acid in superphosphate of lime ... Average amounts of potash and phosphoric acid in wood-ashes from house fires ... ... 185 191 252 On the importance as plant-food of the nitrogen in vegetable ... 339 .. 362 VOLUME II-1877-1900. (Boston: John Allyn) Amounts of potash and of phosphoric acid in several kinds of Record of results obtained on analyzing the seeds of broom corn.. Chemical composition of blue joint-grass (Calamagrostis Canadensis), as contrasted with that of reed canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea) .... .... .... Remarks on American fodder rations, with hints for the improvement of some of them Results obtained on growing buckwheat in equal weights of pitsand and of coal-ashes Chemical composition of the common field horse-tail or scouring rush (Equisetum arvense) ... .. Results of a chemical examination of the shells of crabs and lobsters, and of those of oysters, clams, mussels, and other shell-fish ... On the prominence of carbonate of lime as a constituent of solu PAGE 130 137 159 166 176 tions obtained by percolating dry cultivable soils with water 195 Supplementary note to an article on the composition of pumpkins. 221 Results of fodder-analyses of leaves of the yellow- or curleddock (Rumex crispus), and of sprouts of the common milk-weed (Asclepias Cornuti) .... .... Trials to determine the rates at which some fertilizers may be scattered by hand .... .... Experiments on feeding plants with the nitrogen of vegetable mould ..... .. .. Experiments on the germination of weed seeds 255 261 264 280 289 ........ 292 ...... 317 Cherry stones eaten by the domestic pigeon fertilizers may perhaps act in several different ways...... 343 Observations on some of the chemical substances in the trunks of trees Laboratory notes: ........ .............. (a) Doty birch wood yields little wood-gum 386 409 gum in peach-stones .... 410 (c) Cold dilute alkaline solutions dissolve very little wood- ........... 414 (d) Not much wood-gum from the strawberry ............ 417 (e) As to the presence of xylan in the membranous covering PAGE ... 419 (f) Analysis of ashes of bamboo sugar-baskets. On the systematic destruction of woodchucks .. ... 422 trees 437 (a) Examination of the products of the acid hydrolysis of wood from the trunk of a sugar maple tree.......... 440 (b) Acid hydrolysis of wood from the root of a sugar maple tree ... 443 (c) Acid hydrolysis of wood from the trunk of a birch tree. 451 (d) Experiments on the acid hydrolysis of cotton......... 454 (e) Experiments in which pure dextrose was treated with strong sulphuric acid ... 460 VOLUME III-1901-1906. (Cambridge: University Press) Testing for mannose .... 13 Notes on the occurrence of mannan in the wood of some kinds of trees, and in various roots and fruits 47 A supplement to the article on the occurrence of mannan in trees, roots, and fruit .. 69 Remarks on the "popping" of Indian corn Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Memoir on the alloys of copper and 1861, 3, pp. 22, 37, 51, 70, 149, 164 |