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ARTHUR A. CROZIER. 



BY L. H PAMMEL. 



It was the writer's good fortune soon after his arrival in Iowa in 1889 to 

 have become acquainted wioh Mr. A. A. Crozier, who was then station 

 botanist of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment station. Because of the 

 similar lines of work we were engaged in I was frequently thrown in his 

 company, and it is needless for me to say that I found Mr. Crozier a faith- 

 ful and most conscientious worker in every line of work in which he was 

 engaged. I found him ever helpful and ready to give me suggestions as to 

 how certain lines of work should be done. He was a most careful and pains- 

 taking worker. Nothing was done by halves. Whatever he undertook to 

 do was carried out iu the most careful manner. I never knew him to shirk 

 any of his work. He was not content to merely plan his experiments, and 

 let others do the work, but a great deal of the work done at the Iowa Agri- 

 cultural Experiment station was planned and executed by himself. Mr. 

 Cri zier was connected with the station a little over a year, and left because 

 of a disagreement with the director as to how the scientific work should be 

 done. It was evident to all that an injustice was done and that he should 

 have remained to complete the work so well begun. It was during his stay 

 hei*e that he was elected fellow of this body in 1888. During the years 1^86 

 and 1887 he was assistant botanist in the division of botany, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. While connected with the Iowa Agricultural 

 Experiment station he was made secretary of the American Pomological 

 society, a position worthily filled for two years. After leaving the Iowa 

 Agricultural Experiment station, he became assistant agriculturist at the 

 Michigan Agricultural Experiment station. He continued to hold this 

 position, till by reason of failing health, he resigned. He sought the dry 

 climate of Arizona, but, as he seemed to grow worse, a sea voyage to Hono- 

 lulu was taken, but the pulmonary trouble was so deep rooted that the 

 change of climate offered little relief, and he returned to his home in Ann 

 Arbor on the 20th of May. After a noble fight for life he died on the 28th 

 of January, 1899. He was born in Georgetown, Ottawa county, Mich., on 

 September 22, 1856. Most of his youth was spent on a farm iu .Jamestown 

 of the saTiie state, where his parents settled, cleared the land of forest trees, 

 and made a farm. He early became interested in the planting of trees, and 

 did much, as his mother says, to beautify the home by setting native trees. 

 His preparation for college was mostly done at home. He graduated from 

 the Michigan Agricultural college in 1879 and from the University of 

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