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of germination, what moisture in fertilization and soil conditions 

 meant to growing vegetation, were suggestions of the greater 

 movements and activities of the universities and scientific socie- 

 ties of to-day in their efforts through the pure food laws, and so 

 forth, to establish through chemical analyses the values of fertil- 

 izers in restoring the exhausted qualities of the soils, and in 

 producing through irrigation, grafting, exchanging of seeds, and 

 so on, the adaptation of conditions to needs, and the relations of 

 soils to products. 



This illustration of the suggestiveness of his work in plant 

 life was paralleled in his stuches of animal life, their foods, their 

 habits, their uses. 



Prof. Apgar belonged to the school of instructors who are now 

 classed as formalists simply because they were really the dis- 

 coverers and found it necessary to spend much time in naming 

 and classifying the various objects of interest. In this capacity 

 he was a pioneer in bringing to notice very much of that which 

 is now recognized as true of the flora, the plants, the trees, and 

 the fish life, and birds and other animals of our State, but over 

 and above w^hat he did in contributing to the benefits of mankind 

 in directing them to see real uses and real adaptation, his person- 

 ality will stand out in his recognition of real art in nature, and 

 of the Divine Being- in his works. 



Jame;s M. Green. 



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Prof. Apgar was one of the strongest advocates and promo- 

 ters for the establishment of the New Jersey State Museum. He 

 was one of the best and most successful educators New Jersey 

 has ever had. As the head of the Department of Birds and 

 Flora, he did very excellent work in this department of the Mu- 

 seum. As a true friend and an enthusiastic Vv^orker, we have 

 known him personally for more than forty-five years. None 

 knew him but to love him. His death was a great loss to the 

 State and to the Museum. 



S. R. MORSE, 



Curator. 



