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IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCE 
At the present time he is engaged in seeing through the press a work of 
some 2,000 pages on volumetric analysis. I have been told by some of his 
students that he was an excellent teacher. He has turned out some excellent 
chemists which speaks well for his ability as a teacher and coordinator of 
work. 
He published the following papers in the Iowa Academy of Science: The 
Reduction of Sulphuric Acid by Copper as a Function of the Temperature,. 
(Proc. la. Acad. Sci. 1895:37-40); Recent Advances in the Theory of Solutions. 
(Proc. la. Acad. Sci. 1894:13-19); and L. W. Andrews and Ende, C, A Study 
of the Physical Properties of Solutions of Lithium Chloride in Amyl Alcohol, 
(Proc. la. Acad. Sci. 1894:95-103). 
The chief points in his life are as follows: He was born in London, 
Ontario, June 13, 1856, received the degree of Ph. B. from Yale in 1875; teacher 
of physics in Springfield, Mass., High School, 1876; Ph. D. University of 
Gottingen, 1882; Professor of Chemistry Iowa State College, 1884; University 
of Iowa, 1885-1904. His name is starred in Cattell’s American Men of Science. 
He belongs to many scientific societies, American Chemical Society, president 
St. Louis Section, 1908-’10; Chemical Society of London, Deutsche Chemische 
Gesellschaft; Academy of Science of St. Louis, vice-president, 1909; fellow, 
American Association for the Advancement of Sciep.ce, and Iowa Academy of 
Science, president in 1894; member Iowa Engineering Society; and honorary 
member of Davenport Academy of Science. 
Prom 1904-1909 he had charge of the research department of the Mallinckrodt 
Chemical Works at St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Andrews is now president of the 
Andrews Chemical Works of Davenport, Iowa, which makes a specialty of 
manufacturing oxalic acid and allied products. 
HOBBY, HILL, SCHAEFFER AND WILLIAMS. 
I have been unable to get much information about Dr. C. M. Hobby, formerly 
of Iowa City, who was a resident physician of that place when the present 
Iowa Academy was founded. In the proceedings published 1875-1880, I find 
that Dr. Hobby attended quite regularly and at the Fifth Annual Meeting held 
in Iowa City, he was elected Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. Hobby published 
the report of this old Academy and in it a paper on Fresh Water Algae of Iowa. 
When the report was issued he was lecturer on Opthalmology and Otology at 
the State University. Dr. Hobby is now in California. 
Dr. R. W. Hill was a resident physician in Iowa City at the time of the 
first meeting of the Academy. 
Dr. Radenhausen was a chemist for the glucose works in Davenport. 
Dr. H. S. Williams is a practicing physician, a graduate from the State 
University, and for a long time was connected with the Hospital for the 
Insane at Independence. He was interested in ornithology and published some 
notes in collaboration with Dr. C. R. Keyes. 
Dr. Schaeffer, well known as president of the University, should have a more 
extended notice because of his far-sightedness in reconstructing the University 
along modern lines. 
I have been unable to get much .information about Dr. W. S. Barnard, who 
was connected with Drake University. 
