EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XXV. November, 1911. No. 7. 



Two men have recently passed from the stage of action in Europe 

 whose names are linked with the progress of agricultural experi- 

 mentation — one an organizer and administrator, as well as a teacher, 

 experimenter and writer; the other perhaps the foremost investigator 

 in animal nutrition of his time, and likewise a teacher and writer of 

 wide influence. 



These men, Louis Grandeau, of France, and Oskar Kellner, of Ger- 

 many, are known wherever the history and the results of agricultural 

 investigation are known. Appreciated and honored at home by the 

 State and by their colleagues, as also by the practical farmers, the 

 influence of their work and their writings has extended far beyond 

 the boundaries of their own countries. Both were directors of the 

 first experiment stations established in their respective countries, 

 Grandeau of the Experiment Station of the East, which was founded 

 at his instigation at Nancy in 1868 as the first station in France, and 

 Kellner, for the past eighteen years director of the famous Mockern 

 Station, the forerunner of all the institutions of this class. Both men 

 were likewise active in the editorial field, being the editors of the 

 organs of the French and German experiment stations, respectively, 

 and of popular journals relating to their work. And by a singular 

 coincidence they died on the same day — September 22, 1911 — Grandeau 

 in Interlaken, where he was sojourning in the effort to recover his 

 health, and Kellner at Karlsruhe, whence he had gone to preside at 

 the annual meeting of the Association of German Experiment 

 Stations. 



The agricultural press of both countries have vied with one an- 

 other in honoring the memory of these men, and in setting forth the 

 exceptional and lasting character of their services; and for us in 

 America, where their works were so widely known to readers of 

 science, a brief review of their lives will serve to refresh the memory 

 of their services and to record the appreciation in which they were 

 held. 



Louis Grandeau, professor of agriculture in the School of Arts 

 and Trades in Paris, inspector general of experiment stations, and 

 director of the Agricultural Station of the East^ and sometimes re- 

 ferred to as the " grand old man of agricultural science in France," 



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