100 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



Dr. Goessmann attended this 'Reunion of Compan- 

 ions at Gottingen,' and was one of the speakers. At 

 this interesting gathering were many of his old pupils 

 and friends, including Caldwell, Chandler, J. H. East- 

 wick, Hague, Hungerford, Magee, Mallet, and Tuttle. 

 Of the ten whose names are inscribed on the balance 

 presented to him in 1855-56, six of the seven then liv- 

 ing were present. Dean, Nason, and Pugh had passed 

 away. 



In August 1899 Dr. Goessmann, accompanied by his 

 wife and daughters, revisited the Fatherland after an 

 absence of more than forty years, remaining abroad 

 until the following summer. This was his first vacation 

 for thirty years, or since the call to Amherst in 1868. 

 He went also as an honorary representative of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, to investi- 

 gate the condition of the beet-sugar industry in the 

 German Empire. He was likewise a delegate of the 

 American Chemical Society to the unveiling of the 

 statue of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier in Paris. He 

 went, however, with the intention of doing but little 

 scientific work, and finding pleasure among friends old 

 and new. 



He spent nine delightful weeks in Gottingen, making 

 various excursions in the neighbourhood, especially to 

 beet-sugar factories and beet-raising farms. With the 

 professors he had much pleasant intercourse, among 

 others his old colleague Friedrich Griepenkerl, then 

 dean of the philosophical faculty. He enjoyed also the 

 hospitality of the Fraulein Helena and Sophia Woh- 

 ler, daughters of his beloved teacher. Fifty years had 



