800 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol. 40, 1919] 



Julian A. Burruss, president of the State Normal School at Harrisonburg. 

 Jesse M. Jones, director of the extension division, has resigned to take charge 

 of the department of agricultural and industrial development of the Seaboard 

 Air Line Railway, beginning July 1, and bas been succeeded by John R. 

 Hutcheson, formerly assistant director of the extension division. 



Roosevelt Wild-Life Forest Experiment Station. — A forest biological station 

 has recently been authorized by the Now York Legislature, with headquarters 

 at the College of Forestry at Syracuse University. This will be known as the 

 Roosevelt Wild-Life Forest Experimental Station. The principal object will 

 be to study the habits, life histories, methods of propagation, and management 

 of fish, birds, game, and food and fur-bearing animals and forest wild life. 

 No State appropriation has been made for the station, but a beginning is to 

 be made at once with college funds. Charles 0. Adams has been appointed 

 director. 



Necrology. — Jean Jacques Theophile Schloesing, dean of the Institute of 

 France, member of the French Academy of Sciences, professor in the National 

 Agronomic Institute of France and the Conservatoire dee Arts et Metiers, and 

 one of the most eminent men of science of the last half of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury, died at Paris February S, 1919, at the age of 94 years, having been bom 

 at Marseille July 9, 1824. 



His was a long life of intense and fruitful scientific activity of great value 

 in advancing agriculture. In some of his most important work his name is 

 inseparably connected with that of Miintz. whose death at the age of Tli years 

 occurred February 20, 1917. One of his earliest and most Important contribu- 

 tions to scientific agriculture was a study of nicotic and its determination in 

 tobacco, which later led to a study of the composition and burning quality of 

 different kinds of tobacco. Among his early scientific achievements was a study 

 of chemical equilibrium, which furnished an explanation of the constancy of 

 the proportion of carbon dioxid in air. 



Schlccsing's name is connected with a long series of most important in- 

 vestigations relating to soils. In association with Miintz be established the 

 true nature of nitrification in is~7. defined the conditions favoring this process, 

 and isolated the specific organism concerned. He also cleared up many of the 

 problems related to denitrilication and made Important contributions to the 

 knowledge of the organic matter of the soil, the nature and function of clay, 

 and the nature of the soil solution and its function in supplying plants with 

 food. In connection with a broader study of sea water ami other salines he 

 Investigated the subject of the water of salt marshes. 



He personally devised many analytical methods of great accuracy, involving 

 entirely new technic, which are widely used, and did much to promote not 

 only agricultural chemistry but organic and mineral chemistry in general. 

 He had the reputation of being an inspiring teacher, clear, precise, authorita- 

 tive; personally extremely modest, benevolent, careful in reaching conclusions, 

 firm in maintaining his convictions, but considerate of the opinions of others. 



The more important of his scientific contributions appeared in Annates de 

 Chimic ct de Physique and Compter Rendu* <ic VAcad6mie tenets. His 



work on soils and air, with methods of analysis, Is summarized under the title 

 Contribution a l'Etude de la Chimic Agricole in Fremy's Encyclopedic Chimique. 



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