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revolutionize the conception of the processes involved 

 in plant growth and of the nature and sources of food 

 needful for the growing plant, these few far-seeing 

 men, who realized what might be accomplished for 

 agriculture through chemical knowledge and experi- 

 mentation, had quietly set about the work before them. 

 Through their efforts, in 1840, the New York State 

 Agricultural Society adopted a new constitution and 

 secured a Legislative appropriation of $8000 per 

 annum. In 1857, contrasting the conditions in New 

 York with the apathy in Connecticut, Mr. Henry A. 

 Dyer said: 



In New York the Agricultural Society is the institution 

 of the State that all political parties delight to know, and 

 the strife, so far as it is concerned, between rival factions is 

 which shall give itself the best hold upon the general appro- 

 bation of the State at large by most heartily advancing the 

 operations of the Agricultural Society. 



Dr. Ezra S. Carr, chemist to the New York State 

 Agricultural Society, was also actively engaged in 

 furthering plans for the great university. During the 

 fall and winter of 1855, Mr. Tucker and Professor 

 Carr were in frequent correspondence with Mr. John- 

 son concerning the future prospects of the * ; Univer- 

 sity of Albany" and the State Agricultural Society, 

 and their wish that he should leave New Haven for 

 Albany. On October 1, 1855, Professor Carr inquired: 



Would it be agreeable for you to come to Albany if some 

 satisfactory arrangement could be made? At present I am 

 chemist to the State Ag. Soc. They will fit up a Laboratory 

 in the new State building the coming winter which will afford 

 all the facilities of a private laboratory for analysis in re- 



