1915] Lewis William Fetzer 9 



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 f ollows : 



"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 teach- 

 ing in the lecture room and laboratory; the production of a com- 

 prehensive 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 ränge 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 oppor- 

 tunities 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." 



Lewis William Fetzer. 



Office of Expt. Stations, U. S. Dep't of 



Agriculture, and Georgetown University, 

 Washington, D. C. 



PUBLICATIONS OF FRANCIS HUMPHREYS STORER 



Bulletins of the Bussey Institution 



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