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For three years subsequent to his graduation Professor Popenoe 

 taught in the common schools of Shawnee county. At the ex- 

 piration of that time, in June, 1879, when he was acting as princi- 

 pal of Quincy school, Topeka, he was elected to the chair of 

 horticulture and entomology of K. S. A. C This position he held, 

 with the exception of the two years of populist administration, for 

 twenty-two years, his work doing credit to both the institution 

 and himself. His professorship was the most extended in the 

 history of that college to date.. 



The professor's official connections have been numerous and ar- 

 <iuous enough to have occupied fully the life of an ordinary indi- 

 vidual. For ten years he was secretary and for one term president 

 of the Kansas Academy of Science; he was for two terms secretary 

 of the American Horticultural Society; special agent of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture for the formation of an entomo- 

 logical exhibit for the division of experiment stations, World's 

 Columbian Exposition, and for one term he was chairman of the 

 section of horticulture, American Association of Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations, Washington meeting Besides the 

 above connections, since 1876 he had been entomologist for the 

 Kansas State Board of Agriculture, and by the governor's appoint- 

 ment he was state inspector of nurseries. He was a member in 

 good standing of the Kansas State Horticultural Society, and of 

 the Kansas Academy of Sciences, while the following other socie- 

 ties, of broader extent, claimed him as a member: American 

 Pomological Society (life member); Washington Entomological 

 Society; New York Entomological Society; American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists; and the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Agricultural Science. Such a wide social con- 

 nection indicates not only an appreciation of the professor on the 

 part of the various associations, but it also shows that Professor 

 Popenoe was a wide-awake scientist who kept intimately in touch 

 with the work of his contemporaries. His numerous and exten- 

 sive scientific expeditions, which took him the length and breadth 

 of the United States, were but another evidence of his intense and 

 absorbing interest in his chosen profession. 



During his professorship, as superintendent of the college 

 grounds he had the responsibility of planning and planting the 

 campus and college orchards. He personally set the stakes which 

 mark the position of nearly every ornamental tree and group of 

 shrubs now occupying the lawns and their borders. He, with the 

 valued aid of his assistants, succeeded in changing the grounds 



