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Professor Goessmann possessed a woiulerfully retentive memory, and 

 being' a great reader he was especially well informed on a wide 

 variety of topics. He was a good conversationalist, and if interested 

 in a subject poured forth a torrent of information, interspersed with 

 opinions of his own. He had a genial disposition, a winning person- 

 ality, and when he was amused his smile of appreciation was not soon 

 to be forgotten. One did not need to be long associated with him to 

 feel his influence for good and to realize that he was much more tlian 

 an ordinary man. In fact, his very presence seemed to exhale a sort 

 of si)irilual essence which lifted one to a higher level of thought 

 and feeling. 



Goessmann was indeed a ]iioneer in the cause of agricultural investi- 

 gation in the United States, or, as one of his students expi'essed it, 

 he was a foundation builder. He was a leader, and pointed the way 

 to a fuller understanding of the principles of science as applied to 

 agriculture. Every experiment station worker, every tiller of the soil, 

 and in fact every citizen in our great country, either directly or in- 

 directly, has been benefited by this man who has recently passed into 

 the Great Beyond. 



J. B. LINDSEY. 



