North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1895; Fellow, 1899; Associate member of the Botanical Society of America: Member of the American Mycolog ' ical Society: of the Society of American I ' .acteriologists ; and (if the American Society of Naturalists; Charter member and Vice-President of the .American Nature Study Society; Organizer and Secretary of the N. C. Nature Study Society ; for some years member of the N. C. State Board of Examiners ; and at present member of the State Board of Examiners for the certification of teachers. He has tauijht in the Summer Schools at A. and M. College; at Davidson College: and at Teachers ' Institutes in many counties. He is a popular lecturer at Farmers ' - Institutes, and has lectured in UKire than four-fifths of the counties of North Carolina. For the past fifteen years Dr. Stevens ' s work has been in agriculture and biology, and during that time he has published many scientific articles. Chief among these are : The Effect of Aqueous Solutions upon the Germination of Fungous Spores ; Laboratory Notes on Teaching Chemistry ; The Compound Oospore of Albugo Bliti ; Some Improvements upon Apparatus for Water An- alysis ; Die Gametogenese und Befruchtung hie Albugo ; Studies in the Fertilization of Phycomycetes, Sclerospora Graminicola ; Vegetable Pathology, A Reference Index : Parasitic Fungi on Ohio Weeds ; Ohio Parasitic Fungi ; Fungi New to Ohio : Fungous Enemies of the Apple, Pear and Quince, with Methods of Treat- ment ; Fimgous Enemies of the Peach, Plum, Cherry, Fig, and Persimmon ; The Granville Tobacco Mlt ; Nutation in Bidens and Other Genera ; JVIitosis of the Primary Nucleus in Synchytrium Decipiens ; Oogenesis and Fertilization in Albugo Ipomoese-Panduranse ; The History of hte Tobacco Wilt in Granville County, North Carolina ; The Science of Plant Pathology ; Purity of Raleigh Milk Supply ; Market Milk. Bacteriological Data ; An Apple Rot Due to Volutella ; The Chry- santhemum Ray Blight ; and A Course in Nature Study. With Professors Burkett and Hill he is a joint author of Agriculture for Beginners and the Hill Read- ers. Aside from these works. Dr. Stevens has written niunerous magazine articles, reviews of scientific literature, and articles for the agricultural press. In 1897 Dr. Stevens was married to Adeline T. Chapman, of Ohio, whose cciliinial ancestors are numbered among the prominent families of ' irginia and Xew Jersey. Mrs. Stevens has always taken an active part in the educational life of the College and State. She was assistant in Biology at the A. and M. College in i902- ' o3, and teacher of Nature Study in the A. and M.. the State, and the Davidson Suminer Schools. She is a lecturer at Women ' s Farmers ' Institutes, and a member of the National Committee of the Women ' s Institute Workers.

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The Sixth Volume We have strug -led throuf h many obstacles and disappointments to present you with this, the sixth vokime of The Agromeck. If we have fallen short of the standard, let your criticism be tempered with charity. We appreciate the tjenennis assistance rendered us by the Facult - and Stu- dents, and wish to thank Mrs. Josephine Lyerly, Aliss Myatt, Mrs. Alfred Moretz. Miss Helen . llen, and others, for the sketches thev have so kindlv made for us.