MASSACHUSETTS STATE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



AT AMHERST, MASS. 



BOARD OF CONTROL, 188 4. 



His Excellency GEORGE D. ROBINSON. 

 Governor of the Commoniuealth, President ex officio. 



J. P. LynDE, Athol. 



James R. Nichols, Haverhill. 



Members of the State Board of Agriculture, 



O. B. Hadwen, Worcester. 



J. H. Demond, . Northampton. 



Members of the Board of Trustees of the Mass. Agricultural College. 



Theodore Lyman, Brookllne. 



Member of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. 



James C. Greenough, ....... Amherst. 



President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF CONTROL. 



C. A. GOESSMANN, Prof, of Chemistry at the Mass. Agricultural College. 

 Director and Chemist. 



S. T. Maynard, Prof, of Botany at the Mass. Agricultural College. 

 Supt. of Horticultural Experiments, Microscopist and Draughtsman. 



Assistants, 

 Joseph B. Lindsey, Class '83,* . Stock-feeding and Chemical Analysis. 

 Chas. H. Preston, Class '83,* . General and Analytical Chemistry. 

 H. J. Wheeler, Class '83, . . General and Analytical Chemistry. 

 Winthkop E. Stone, Class '82, . Biology and Field Experiments. 

 David Wentzell, . . . Farmer. 



* Messrs. Preston and Lindsey have since accepted more lucrative positions elsewhere. 



