REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 21 



Memorial to Dr. E. B. Voorhees. 



Former Commissioner of the New Jersey State Museum. 



(Taken from Memorial by Dr. W. H. S. Demarest, President of Rutgers 



College, New Brunswick, N. J.) 



Edward Burnett Voorhees was born June 22d, 1856; he died 

 June 6th, 191 1. He was graduated from Rutgers College with 

 the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1881, and in 1900 he received 

 the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont. 

 He became Professor of Agriculture in Rutgers College in 1890 

 and Director of the State and College Experiment Stations, re- 

 spectively, in 1893 and 1896, which office he held until his death. 



He was a classical student, as we have familiarly used the term 

 through the years ; he took the Arts degree, which demanded for 

 its conferring Latin and Greek; and from such classical training 

 he passed speedily into the research field of scientific agriculture 

 and so to his eminent place in agricultural education; standing 

 thus as one of the many high examples of great distinction in 

 scientific and technical profession built from the broad founda- 

 tion of a classical culture. As a graduate, through thirty years 

 he gave to his college a loyal and energetic love. After but a 

 single year's service elsewhere, in 1882 he came back to take up 

 life and work within the walls vi'here he studied, and there his 

 home and his work remained to the end. It was inevitable that 

 out of his marked ability and success in his chosen line of study 

 and service he should become Professor of Agriculture in the 

 college where his experiment, research and direction was main- 

 tained. Thus he entered the faculty in 189O', succeeding the 

 lamented Dr. George H. Cook. For twenty years Dr. Voorhees, 

 as Professor of Agriculture, fulfilled and advanced in Rutgers 

 College this line of instruction with a power and aptness com- 

 manding wide recognition. And especially in the last half dozen 

 years did he, as head of the department, with the administration 

 of the college, successfully promote large things for this field 

 of learning, chiefly perhaps in leading the State to the establish- 

 ment of the Short Course in Ag-riculture. 



