University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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Bebtcatton. TO DR. H. C. WHITE, m- a., jf. €. 1.1.9. for thirty years of unselfish devotion to duty, as Professor of Chemistry in the University of Georgia and for the honor he has brought to the University through his courtesy and scholarship, this 1 909 volume of the Pandora is respectfully dedicated. .W22

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 HENRY CLAY WHITE

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HENRY CLAY WHITE XRY CLAY WHITE was born in Baltimore. Maryland. I)c- 0 caliber 30. 1850. He attended private schools in Baltimore and vicinity, entered the University of Virginia and was graduated B. S. and C. and M. E. in June. 1870. His course at the University included a year of graduate work in chemistry under Dr. John Y. Mallet. During the winter of 1870-’71 he was engaged in chemical work in Baltimore, and was Science Lecturer at the Pealxxly Institute and the Maryland Institute in that city. In June. 1871. he was elected Professor of Chemistry in St. John's College. Annapolis. Maryland, resigning in June. 1872. to accept the Professorship of Chemistry in the University of Georgia. He entered upon the duties of this ] osition October i, 1872. and has since served continuously therein, a record term of service in the same position exceeding by many years that of any former or present officer of the University. On the reorganization of the departments of the University in June. 1890. he was appointed President of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, retaining, however, his Professorship of Chemistry. He resigned the office of President in June, 1907. On coming to the University in 1872 Doctor White established the first of the Institution’s lalxwatorics for instruction—a chemical lalx»ratory. in rooms at the west end on the first floor of Old College. The following year Moore College was built and the basement and first floor were occupied bv the Department of Chemistry. On the building of Science Hall in 1896 two floors (excepting two rooms and an office reserved for administration pur|x ses) and the basement of the large building were assigned to Chemistry. On the destruction of this building by fire in 1902 and its replacement by the present Terrell Hall, the whole of the new building of three floors was given to the Department. During his incumbency of the Chair of Chemistry Doctor White has. therefore, seen the Department grow from very modest l eginnings to its present large and excellent proportions. As an investigator Doctor White’s chief work has been in the field of agricultural chemistry. From 1872 until the establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1889. he co-operated with the several professors of agriculture in the University in investigating, in the field and Ialioratory. numerous problems related to agriculture. The college farm, at the time, was on the present site of the State Normal School. The results of these investigations were reported in addresses to the annual meetings of the State Agricultural Society and published in the proceedings of the Society. Many of these were pioneer work in Southern scientific agriculture, as. for example, a fairly complete study of the chemistry of the cotton plant (1873) : the fertil-