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Harvey  IVashington  Wiley. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t     August,  1911. 
To  prepare  a  sketch  of  Dr.  Wiley  and  his  work  would  be  to  write 
a  volume.  Briefly  then,  Dr.  Wiley  was  born  on  October  i8,  1844, 
near  Kent,  Jefferson  County,  Indiana.  In  1863  he  entered  the 
freshman  class  of  Hanover  College,  graduating  A.B.  in  1867.  En- 
tering upon  the  study  of  medicine  in  1868,  he  graduated  M.D.  from 
the  Indiana  Medical  College  in  187 1.  During  his  medical  course 
he  was  instructor  in  Latin  and  Greek  at  Butler  College.  In  1872 
he  entered  the  Lawrence  School  of  Harvard  University,  graduating 
B.S.  in  1873.  He  was  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  Butler  College  in 
1873-4,  and  from  1874  to  1883  he  filled  the  position  of  Professor 
of  Chemistry  at  the  Agricultural  College  of  Indiana  at  Purdue. 
During  this  period  he  had  leave  of  absence  for  the  year  1878-79 
and  studied  in  Germany.  He  was  State  Chemist  of  Indiana  from 
1881  to  1883 ;  was  made  Chief  of  the  Division  of  Chemistry, 
U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  in  1883,  which  position  he  held  up 
to  1901,  when  he  became  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry,  which 
position  he  holds  at  the  present  time. 
The  record  of  Dr.  Wiley's  connection  with  the  evolution  of  the 
Federal  Food  and  Drugs  Law  and  legislation  concerning  Foods  and 
Drugs  in  the  United  States,  is,  indeed,  a  stimulus  to  any  young 
man  with  a  laudable  ambition.  It  is  the  successful  record  of  a  man 
with  an  ideal,  who  has  worked  indefatigably  until  his  ideal  became  a 
reality.  And,  furthermore,  like  other  men  who  have  achieved  great 
things  for  their  countrymen,  we  find  a  cabal  seeking  to  humiliate  him. 
It  is  now  just  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  that  Dr.  Wiley,  as  Chemist, 
submitted  to  Hon.  N.  J.  Colman,  then  Commissioner  of  Agriculture, 
the  first  Bulletin  (No.  13)  on  Foods  and  Food  Adulterants.  This 
Bulletin  deals  with  dairy  products  only,  but  was  rapidly  followed  by 
other  detailed  scientific  studies  on  other  products,  as  spices  and  condi- 
ments, fermented  alcoholic  beverages,  lard,  baking  powders,  sugar, 
molasses  and  syrups,  tea  and  coffee,  canned  vegetables,  cereals  and 
preserved  meats.  At  the  very  beginning  Dr.  Wiley  realized  that 
the  support  of  the  public  who  eat  the  food  would  be  vital  to  the 
propaganda,  for  in  1889  submitted  Bulletin  25  of  the  Bureau 
of  Chemistry  to  the  Hon.  Jerry  M.  Rusk,  then  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture, entitled  "  A  Popular  Treatise  on  the  Extent  and  Character 
of  Food  Adulteration."  In  submitting  this  report  by  Special  Agent 
Wedderburn,  Dr.  Wiley  said : 
"The  object  of  the  present  bulletin  is  wholly  distinct  from  that  pursued 
in  Bulletin  No.  13.    The  investigations,  of  which  the  present  bulletin  is  the 
