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search. The laboratory at the Med. Col. will answer all pur- 

 poses of instruction. There are no fees connected with the 

 office of chemist, excepting the charges made for chem. 

 analyses, etc. A good Lab. however will be furnished free 

 of expense, and I think it probable that hereafter an appro- 

 priation may be obtained for researches in agricultural 

 chemistry. . . . 



I do not know how remunerative this would be ; but it has 

 occurred to me that perhaps some connection (as a writer for 

 the Cultivator) which you might form with Mr. Tucker, 

 together with the laboratories, might yield a living compen- 

 sation. 



A few days later he wrote again on the same subject, 

 saying : 



I have no doubt that your income the first year would be 

 sufficient to defray your expenses, giving you at the same 

 time all of the advantages you could desire in the way of 

 opportunities to pursue your own chemical investigations. I 

 should be happy to give you all of the advantages which a 

 connection with the State Agricultural Soc. would afford, or 

 my own Laboratory at the Med. Col. for giving instruction, 

 etc. It would give me pleasure to have you come here to 

 reside, and I should like to see and confer with you in refer- 

 ence to the matter should you find it convenient. 



Mr. Luther Tucker, who had long wished to devise 

 some means by which Mr. Johnson might be enabled 

 to go to Albany and begin work there in the field of 

 scientific agricultural education while waiting for the 

 endowment which they all hoped would soon make 

 the " University of Albany" a reality, wrote these 

 friendly words at the time of an official invitation to 

 speak before the New York State Agricultural Society : 



