8 DirEctToOR’s REPORT OF THE 
cally than the qualities of a high-minded gentleman characterized 
his everyday life and his relations to his associates. His death” 
has brought to all his co-workers a sense of deep personal loss. 
Prof. S. A. Beach severed his connection with the Station on 
September Ist, because of his acceptance of a call to the chair of 
Horticulture in the Iowa Agricultural College. During his four- 
teen years of service as head of the Horticultural Department, 
Prof. Beach gained the attention of the fruit interests of New 
York to an unusual degree. Such confidence was placed in his 
conservative and well-guarded utterances that his advice had 
without question come to exert a marked and highly beneficial 
influence upon the horticultural practice of the State. Prof. 
Beach’s period of service was brought to a fitting close by his 
authorship of “The Apples of New York,” which is the most nota- 
ble pomological publication of. recent years. Horticultural edu- 
cation in Iowa is certainly much strengthened by the acquisition 
of Prof. Beach, for whom his friends and recent associates wish 
the most abundant success in his new field of labor. 
Mr. F. D. Fuller, for nearly nine years connected with the 
chemical work of the Station, received a well earned promotion 
to larger responsibilities and salary by his appointment to a 
position in connection with the Pennsylvania Department of Agri- 
culture, the duties of which he assumed on May 15th, 1905. 
The Station was further honored by the selection of Mr. A. J. 
Patten to become the chief chemist of the Michigan Agricultural 
Iixperiment Station. Mr. Patten’s experience as a chemist in 
two experiment station laboratories, a year of advanced study 
in Germany and recent association with important lines of re- 
search have rendered him well fitted to enter successfully upon 
the work of investigation. 
Upon request of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Mr. Charles 
W. Mudge, Assistant Chemist, was transferred to the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture on June Ist. Mr. Mudge’s connection with 
the Station covered something more than six years, during which 
time he applied himself diligently to the duties that were assigned 
to him. | | | 
Mr. F. A. Urner, Assistant Chemist, after less than two years’ 
service, resigned his position on January 9th, 1905, to take up 
chemical work along commercial lines. 
