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1889. Foreign member of the Committee on Plant Food, 

 Allgemeine land- und forstwirthschaftliche Ausstel- 

 lung, Wien 1890. 



1892. Appointed a member of the Advisory Council on Chem- 

 istry of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Colum- 

 bian Exposition, December 12. 



1892-95. Treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



1894. Member of the American Lavoisier Committee for the 

 erection in Paris of a monument to Antoine-Laurent 

 Lavoisier. 



1895. Appointed Honorary Director of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Massachusetts Agricultural College, April 16. 



1898. Elected a member of the American Statistical Associa- 

 tion, January 21. 



1899-1900. In August 1899 Dr. Goessmann, accompanied by his 

 family, revisited the Fatherland after an absence of 

 forty years, remaining abroad until the following June. 

 He went also as an honorary representative of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture to the Ger- 

 man Empire, and as a delegate of the American Chem- 

 ical Society to the unveiling of the statue of Antoine- 

 Laurent Lavoisier in Paris. 



1899-1910. Member of the Council of the American Chemical 

 Society. 



1900. Elected a member of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences, January 9. 



1900. Member of the American Academy of Political and 

 Social Science. 



1907. Resigned the Professorship of Chemistry in June, re- 

 tiring on a pension from the Carnegie Foundation. 



1907. Presented by his pupils with a stained-glass window, 

 June 17, commemorative of forty years of service at 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



1907. Resigned as Chemist of the Experiment Station, Mass- 

 achusetts Agricultural College, and appointed Consult- 

 ing Chemical Expert, July 1. 



1908. Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, June 16. 



1910. Portrait of Dr. Goessmann presented to the College by 



the Alumni, June 21. 

 1910. Died at Amherst, September 1. 



