98 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



relations of the sorghum-sugar industry in the United 

 States. Averse to controversy, and rather than risk 

 being entangled in disputes, so little to his taste, - 

 he finally withdrew from the committee. From 1883 

 to 1904 he was analyst to the State Board of Health of 

 Massachusetts, and from 1886 until his death chemist 

 to the Bay State Agricultural Society. 



He was a member of several of the leading scientific 

 societies and academies, both at home and abroad. 

 Some of these have already been mentioned and others 

 will be found in the Chronology. In 1865 he was 

 elected a corresponding member of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. In 1869 he joined the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 

 1875 was elected a fellow. One of the original mem- 

 bers of the American Chemical Society, founded in 

 1876, he was a vice-president in 1877, and again in 

 1881 and 1882. In 1887 he succeeded Dr. Albert B. 

 Fresco tt as president. In 1880 he was one of a com- 

 mittee of three appointed to represent the Society at 

 the centennial celebration of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences. He was also a member of the 

 general committee of arrangements for the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary celebration of the Chemical Society 

 in 1901. 



Goessmann was one of the twelve scientists who, at 

 a meeting held in Boston in April 1880, organized the 

 Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. In 

 1893 he was a member of the Advisory Council on 

 Chemistry of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the 

 Columbian Exposition, and was invited to address the 



