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1874. Member of the General Committee of American Chem- 

 ists, chosen to commemorate the one hundredth anni- 

 versary of the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley. 



1874-80. Systematic investigation of the chemical and physical 

 condition of the salt marshes of the State. 



1875. Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the 



Advancement of Science, Detroit meeting, August 17. 



1876. Original member of the American Chemical Society 

 and elected Vice-President, November 2. 



1880. Elected State Agricultural Chemist of North Carolina 

 and Director of the Experiment Station at Chapel 

 Hill, March 2. 



1880. Original member of the Society for the Promotion of 

 Agricultural Science, August 24. 



1880-81. Chairman of the Association of Agricultural Chemists 

 later the Association of Official Agricultural Chem- 

 ists of the United States. 



1881-82. Member of the Committee appointed by the National 

 Academy of Sciences to investigate the Scientific and 

 Economic Relations of the Sorghum-sugar Industry in 

 the United States. 



1881-82. Vice-President of the American Chemical Society. 



1882. Elected a member of the Virginia Historical Society, 

 June 16. 



1882-95. Director and Chemist of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. Appointed November 9, 

 1882. 



1883. Member of the American Metrological Society. 

 1883-1904. Analyst to the State Board of Health of Massachu- 

 setts. 



1885. Delegate to the First Convention of Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations, at Washington, July 

 8 and 9. 



1886. Elected Chemist to the Bay State Agricultural Society, 

 March 1. 



1887. President of the American Chemical Society. Elected 

 December 3, 1886. 



1888-95. Member of the Board of Control of the Massachusetts 



Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 1889. Elected a corresponding member of the Massachusetts 



Horticultural Society, April 6. 



1889. Degree of Doctor of Laws conferred by Amherst Col- 

 lege, July 2. 



