CHAPTER VI 



LATER YEARS 



ON the 28th of July 1880, Dr. Goessmann attended 

 a convention of the leading agricultural chemists of 

 the country at Washington. At this gathering he of- 

 fered the following resolution, which was adopted : 

 'Resolved, That this Convention form a section in the 

 subdivision of Chemistry of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, and that the next 

 meeting be held in Boston, during the regular meeting 

 of the aforesaid Association.' A permanent organiza- 

 tion was then effected under the name of the Associa- 

 tion of Agricultural Chemists, 1 and Dr. Goessmann 

 was made chairman. Goessmann's reputation as a 

 technical and agricultural chemist had long been 

 firmly established, and his election to this office was a 

 fitting recognition of his services and contributions to 

 those branches of chemical science. Earlier in the year 

 he had been unanimously elected State Chemist of 

 North Carolina, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 

 resignation of Dr. Albert R. Ledoux. This position, 

 however, he had declined. 



In 1881 and 1882 he served as a member of the com- 

 mittee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences 

 to investigate and report on the scientific and economic 



1 Reorganized, September 8, 1884, as the Association of Official Agricul- 

 tural Chemists of the United States. 



