212 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



"When, in March 1877, the bill passed which estab- 

 lished the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion as a State institution, many letters came from 

 friends who had watched and sympathized with Pro- 

 fessor Johnson's life work. On April 7, Mr. Luther 

 H. Tucker wrote: 



Accept my congratulations on the success of your efforts 

 thus far and their prospect of usefulness in the future. 



Mr. Goodale closed a letter of this period with the 

 words : 



I was rejoiced to learn from the papers that the Experi- 

 ment Station is to go to New Haven and be under your 

 direction. I trust there is no mistake about it. Tardy justice 

 and right doing is better than postponement forever or till too 

 late. 



Professor Storer wrote: 



Jamaica Plain, Mass., 19 Apr. 1877. 



My dear Johnson : — I congratulate you most heartily ! 

 Occasionally as now, the Eternal Fitness of Things is vindi- 

 cated, and it is a real pleasure to witness the event. 



I have never had the least knowledge of the ins and outs of 

 your Conn. Agric. politics, but have sworn some frequently 

 at what seemed to be evidences that the Patriarch of our Sci. 

 Agric. might probably be cheated out of his birthright and 

 workright. Long ago I made a memorandum of questions to 

 be asked of you concerning your attitude and position iw re 

 Agric. Station. . . . 



Pray come on when you can — (and tell me among other 

 things why you esteem maize grain to be "too nitrogenous" 

 as you have said in Amer. Jr. Sci.). Yrs. sincerely, 



F. H. Storer. 



