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tion to the examination of water and water- 

 sheds and the contamination of rivers and 

 ponds by trade wastes and sewage. He made 

 numerous reports, both as regards private and 

 public water supplies. 



He visited England on an average every 

 other year since 1894, familiarizing himself 

 with the work done in that country and the 

 results were embodied in various articles 

 which he published on the subject. He paid 

 special attention to the subject of the pollu- 

 tion of streams by wool-washings, and made a 

 careful study of this problem at Bradford, 

 England, where a greater amount of wool is 

 washed annually than in any other city in 

 England or in this country. 



He was employed as an expert in numerous 

 cases regarding the pollution of streams and 

 ponds, and was one of the experts in the case 

 of the pollution of the Mississippi River at St. 

 Louis by the sewage of Chicago. In 1903 he 

 was appointed consulting chemist of the Con- 

 necticut Sewage Commission, a position which 

 he retained up to the time of his death. He 

 was a frequent contributor to scientific peri- 

 odicals and the proceedings of learned so- 

 cieties upon topics relating to his specialty. 



In 1910, in collaboration with Professor C. 

 E. A. Winslow, of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, and Mr. E. Winthrop Pratt, of 

 the Ohio State Board of Health, he published 

 a book entitled " Sewage Disposal " which is 

 considered to be one of the best treatises on 

 the subject of sewage disposal in the English 



Professor Kinnicutt's reputation was not 

 confined to this country. He enjoyed a wide 

 acquaintance, both in England and on the 

 continent, and possessed the rare faculty of 

 keeping ever fresh and active a friendship 

 once established. One of his highest honors 

 was the appointment as president of the Sec- 

 tion of Hygiene of the International Congress 

 of Applied Chemistry, which is to be held in 

 Washington and New York in September, 

 1912. Even to within a few days of his death 

 he continued to work with characteristic zeal 

 in perfecting plans for the success of the sec- 

 tion over which he was to preside. Professor 



Kinnicutt was deeply interested in the sani- 

 tary problems of his native city, Worcester. 

 He kept a careful watch upon the city's water 

 supply. During the " water famine " of the 

 present winter, from his sick-bed he directed 

 the tests to be made, had daily reports brought 

 to him and outlined the policy by which, in his 

 opinion, the city's health might be best safe- 

 guarded. 



He devoted a great deal of time and money 

 to secure a pure milk supply in summer for the 

 babies in needy families, and at the time of 

 his death he was a member of the Worcester 

 Medical Milk Commission, which is investi- 

 gating the question of pure milk for the city. 

 Professor Kinnicutt was widely connected 

 with scientific associations ; he was a fellow of 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 

 a fellow of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, of which he was 

 vice-president in 1904; a member of the 

 American Chemical Society, and president of 

 its Northeastern Section in 1902, and coun- 

 cillor for a succession of years; a member of 

 the Society of Bacteriology; a fellow of the 

 New England Water Works Association; of 

 the Boston Society of Civil Engineers; of the 

 American Antiquarian Society, and of various 

 foreign associations, including the Association 

 of Managers of Sewage Disposal Works of 

 England, the London Chemical Society, and 

 the German Chemical Society. He was a 

 member of several social clubs in Worcester 

 and Boston and retained to a remarkable de- 

 gree his interest in the alumni reunions of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University and of Harvard 

 University, and he rarely failed to be present 

 and add his geniality to the general good 

 cheer. 



Esteemed and honored by the scientific 

 world, and beloved by a wide circle of acquain- 

 tances, yet it was as a teacher that the true 

 worth of his character manifested itself. 

 Possessed of a broad training and knowledge 

 of his subject, and a fund of personal experi- 

 ences, with which he punctuated his lectures, 

 he was enabled to drive home the truths which 

 he desired to impress on the minds of his stu- 



