30 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



He is coming on Friday. I am very sorry he could not 

 be here to-day, for I would like to have you see him. 

 He is a hearty, full-blooded, wide-awake, nervous 

 German. I will not compare him with Agassiz, but I 

 will say he is a man of a temperament something like 

 his. We were fellow-students in a German university 

 twenty years ago, and he was one of the best students 

 of his time. When we graduated together, the profes- 

 sor came to me and said: "What do you think of that 

 young man as an assistant for me? " "I think he is the 

 very best man you can find." Said he, " I think just 

 so," and immediately appointed him his assistant. That 

 professor is the best chemist in the world. ... I know 

 there is not a better practical chemist in the United 

 States than Dr. Goessmann. I anticipate that he will 

 be a light in this country, right here among this people, 

 and that scientific investigations and experiments will 

 be carried on under his supervision here, by the stu- 

 dents of this College, which will redound to the credit 

 of the State, and to the credit of this Board, as con- 

 nected with the College.' * 



Elsewhere, he says: 'His large experience as a 

 teacher, and his great familiarity with the applications 

 of chemistry to the arts, qualify him, in a peculiar 

 manner, for the important position of chemist in the 

 Agricultural College. It is confidently expected that, 

 under his supervision, analyses of commercial fertil- 

 izers will be made, and suitable experiments instituted, 



1 Address by President Clark on the 'Work and the Wants of the Col- 

 lege,' before the State Board of Agriculture, meeting at Amherst, Decem- 

 ber 8, 1868. 



