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IN MEMORIAM. 



G. E. PATRICK. 



L. H. PAMMEL. 



Professor G. E. Patrick was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts, 

 October 22d, 1851, and died in Washington, D. C., on the 22d 

 of March, 1916. At the time of his death he was in charge of the 

 dairy laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. He graduated from Cornell Univer- 

 sity, receiving the degree of B. S. in 1873 and M. S. in 1874. He 

 was instructor in Chemistry, Cornell University, 1873 ; assistant 

 professor and professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas, 

 1874-1883; Chemist, Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 1889-1895, and professor of Agricultural Chemistry, Iowa State 

 College, 1890-1895; since 1896 he was Assistant Chemist, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture ; since 1901, chief of dairy laboratory 

 of the same bureau. He was also, I believe, a member of the 

 Delta Upsilon fraternity. He married Hattie E. Lewis of Law- 

 rence, Kansas, in 1879, and she died in 1909. 



Professor Patrick resigned from the Ames position because of 

 some disagreement with the Board of Trustees. Soon afterwards 

 he accepted a position with the Bureau of Chemistry of the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, where he did 

 splendid work. The disagreement at Ames he thought at the 

 time was due to personal antagonism of Secretary James "Wilson. 

 However, when Professor James Wilson was made Secretary of 

 Agriculture he found Professor Patrick in the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry where he. was befriended in many ways by his supposed 

 enemy. Professor Patrick told me many times in later years of 

 his high regard for the Ex-Secretary and his family. 



Professor Patrick published many chemical papers dealing 

 with Dairy Chemistry. He was certainly active as shown by the 

 number of papers either published by himself or associated with 

 others, as the following numbers of the bulletins of the Iowa Ag- 

 ricultural Experiment Station show : Bulletin Iowa Agricultural 

 Experiment Station 1 : 11-15 ; 3 : 82-91 ; 4 : 99-103 ; 5 : 143-160 

 9 r 355; 9: 356-369; 10: 448-480; 11: 481-489; 12: 519-529; 12 

 530-534; 13: 5-30; 14: 123-151; 14: 152-165; 15: 199-233; 15 

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