Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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DEANS OF THE FACULTY

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animal products were accompanied by calorimetric determinations of their energy con- tent. Recognizing the national importance of his work in this field. the United States Department of Agriculture, in 1898, appointed him uExpert in Animal Nutrition and from that time has made grants for the extension of his work. In 1903. appeared his uPrinciples of Animal Nutrition . which summed up the then existing knowledge con- cerning the energetics of the nutrition of domestic animals. The grants made by the college and the national government made practicable the construction of apparatus essential to exact and conclusive experiment upon this subject. In 1898, the Erst steps were taken toward the construction of a respiration calorimeter for experiment upon large animaIs similar to that devised by Atwater for studies upon human nutrition; and. in 1902, after overcoming many difiiculties. Dr. Armsby and his assistants completed the construction of the present calorimeter, the first of its kind. By the use of this large but delicate apparatus, he has made the most important recent contributions to this subject. In recognition of the importance of this work and of his pre-eminent abilities as an investigator in this field. the trustees of the college, in 1907, when the reorganization of the school of agriculture and experiment station was determined. established the Institute of Animal Nutrition as an independent branch of the institution's work. affiliated with the experiment station. and made Dr. Armsby its director. As evidence of the national appreciation of his abilities, it may be noted that. at the request of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, he acted as chairman of the committee which planned and prepared the exhibits of Amer ican experiment station work for the Columbian Exposition in 1893 and for the Paris Exposition of 1900, and that he served as a member of the committee which conducted the important dairy tests made at the former exposition; and in 1898, he was elected presi- dent of that inHuentiaI association. In 1904 and again in 1905, he was elected presi- dent of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, an organization whose membership is selected from the leading agricultural investigators of the United States and Canada. From 1906 to 1908. after the passage of the Adams Act making supple- mentary grants to the agricultural experiment stations of the several states, he acted as a member of the Commission on Agricultural research appointed for the purpose of pro- moting more highly scientific work under this grant. In the organization of the Society of Animal Nutrition he took an active part and was elected its Iirst president 09081 Academic honors also have rewarded his services. In 1904, upon the occasion of its jubilee celebration, the University of Wisconsin conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws, and in the ceremonial President Van Hise thus characterized his services: Formerly professor at this University. with the aid of ingeniously devised apparatus you have for years been successfuIIy working upon the very important problems of metabolism of food nutrients. Upon you, for these valuable researches on the nourish- ment of the body, and for vigorous administration of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Experiment Station. we confer the degree of Doctor of Laws . It is the hope of his colleagues that the college may for many more years have the benefit of his able services as a teacher, investigator, and wise counselor. 9

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