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rendered much assistance in establishing the Jersey herd of Elmen- 

 dorf Farm, making a trip abroad for the purpose, and selecting 

 high-priced animals in this country. He was also in demand as 

 a judge at fairs. He loved dairy cattle, and his knowledge of them 

 put him in the highest class of experts. The Breeder's Gazette says 

 of him, " he was the best known and best liked judge of dairy cattle 

 in America." 



Dr. Scovell was also active for many years in the Association of 

 Official Agricultural Chemists, in the development and improvement 

 of methods of agricultural analysis. He was president of that asso- 

 ciation in 1909. He was for several years a member of the committee 

 on food standards, which worked in cooperation with this Depart- 

 ment after the passage of the Food and Drugs Act of 1906. He was 

 a member of various learned societies, especiall}^ those relating to 

 agriculture and to chemistry, and was a fellow of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Dr. Scovell's personal qualities deserve especially to be mentioned. 

 Gentleness, kindness of heart, patience amounting almost to a fault, 

 and a tolerance and sympathy which were never failing, were attri- 

 butes which he embodied in remarkable degree. As his associates 

 have well said, " in the highest and best sense he was the good citizen 

 and the pioneer in the spread of a higher civilization and nobler 

 ways of living." These high attributes of character, coupled with 

 his unbounded good humor and cordiality, made him hosts of friends 

 to whom he was joined by strong bonds of friendship. 



The affection and esteem in which he w^as held in his home city 

 is attested by the unusual action of the street railway company in 

 ordering that at the hour of his funeral services every car should 

 stop for three minutes, and of the mayor of Lexington in requesting 

 that every wheel, on pleasure or business bent, should pay him the 

 same mark of respect. 



Truly, as President Barker of the university has said, " the world 

 is richer because he has lived and poorer because he is dead." 



