University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE EUGENE DAVENPORT, JTJ, AZ, Dean of the College of Agriculture, and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station., M.Agr., Michigan Agricultural College, ' 78. DONALD McINTOSH, AZ, Professor of Veterinary Science, V.S., Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Canada, ' 70. ISABEL BEVIEE, Professor of Household Science, Head of the Department of Household Science, Ph.B., Wooster University, ' 85; Ph.M., Wooster University, ' 88. GEORGE CYRIL HOPKINS, AZ. 1 1 EUGENE DAVENPORT Professor of Agronomy in Agricultural College, Chief in Agronomy and Chemistry, Agricultural Experiment Station, B.S., South Dakota Agricultural College, ' 90; .M.S., Cornell University, ' 74; Ph.D., Cornell University, ' 98. HERBERT WINDSOR MUMFORD, AZ Professor of Animal Husbandry, Chief of Animal Husbandry at the Agricultural Experiment Station. JOSEPH CULLEN BLAIR, AZ Professor of Pomology, Chief in Pomology at the Agricultural Experiment Station. ( ' ornell University, ' 96. WILBER JOHN FRASER, Assistant Professor of Dairy Husbandry, Agricultural Experiment Station, L.S., University of Illinois, ' 93; M.S., University of Illinois, ' 02. JOHN WILLIAM LLOYD, AZ j Assistant Professor of Olericulture, Chief Assistant in Olericulture at the Agricultural Experiment Station, B.S., Wheaton College, ' 97; P.S.A., Cornell University, ' 99. CHARLES SPENCER CRANDALL, Assistant Professor of Pomology, Chief Assistant in Pomology at the Agricultural Experiment Station, B.S., .Michigan Agricultural College; M.S., Michigan Agricultural College, ' 89. JEREMIAH GEORGE M OSIER, AZ, Instructor in Soil Physics, Chief Assistant in Soil Physics at the Agricultural Experiment Station, L. S., University of Illinois, ' 93. •• Girls, iils, how I lovi the girls. — F D. Niedermeyer.

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ArtHtir William Palmer T7T RTHPR WILLIAM PALMER was born in London, England, Feb. 17, 1861. ] He came with his parents to America at the age of five, his home being first 1[ at Elgin and later at Springfield, Illinois. He entered the University in the •if Li fall of 1879, and graduated with the class of 1883. During his senior year he served as second assistant in chemistry, and for the year following he held the position of first assistant. Entering the Graduate School of Harvard in 1884 he was awarded a Morgan fellowship, which he held for two years, receiving the degree of Doctor of Science. Returning to Illinois he again held the appointment of first assistant in chemistry for two years. At the end of this time the head of the department, Dr. Wm. McMurtrie resigned, anil it seemed to Dr. Palmer that he had rightfully earned recog- tion as the successor to that position. Being disappointed in this he left the Univer- sity for study abroad. A telegram from the University proffering the desired posi- tion failed to reach him before embarking, hence his long cherished plan for study in German laboratories was carried out. His first semester was spent at Gottingen in the private laboratory of Victor Meyer. The second semester was spent under Dr. Hoffman at Berlin. Meanwhile chemical affairs in Illinois bad gone badly. The new appointee had retired after one term of service, and substitutes had completed the work of the year. In response to a cable message Dr. Palmer returned, and took up the work again in the fall of 1889, receiving the appointment of assistant professor of chemistry. In 1890 he was promoted to the professorship of chemistry, and this position he held until his death, being therefore in his nineteenth year of instructional service in the University of Illinois. Dr. Palmer was a member of the American Public Health Association, the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, Berlin. His greatest work, and the one by which he is best known among chemists, was the very difficult and long considered im- possible establishment of the series of compounds known as the arsines, homologous in composition, and related in character to the well known amine and phosphine groups. Since 1.895 he has been in charge of the chemical survey of the waters of Illinois, and his second report just published, covering the years from 1897 to 1902, is a monument to his ability and indefatigable energy. Rarely gifted as a lecturer, profoundly and widely versed in his chosen Held, skillful and also tireless as an investigator; the University has lost one of her most efficient servants, and science one of her most bril- liant representatives.

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FRED RANDALL CRANK, [nstructorin Farm Mechanics, B.S., Michigan Agricultural College, ' 99. ALVIN CASEY BEAL, Instructor in Floriculture, B.S., University of Illinois, ' 1)7. (MRS.) GERTRUDE CLARK SOBER, 7J50, Instructor in Household Science, B.S., University of Michigan, ' 92. JOSEPH WILLIAM HART Instructor in Dairy Manufactures, Chief Assistant in Dairy Manufactures at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Ontario Agricultural College, ,87. LOUIS DIXON HALL, Instructor in Beef Cattle, H.S., University of Illinois, ' 99. WILLIAM DIETRICH, Instructor in Swine Husbandry, Assistant in Swine Husbandry at the Agricultural Experiment Station, 15. S. A., University of Wisconsin, ' 97. ALBERT NASH HUME, Instructor in Farm Crops, B.S., Purdue University, ' 00; M.S., Purdue University, ' 02, RUFUS CHANCY OBRECHT, Instructor in Horses, Assistant in Horse Investigation at the Agricultural Experiment Station, B.S.A., Iowa State College, ' 01. JAMES HARVEY PETTIT, 22, AZ, Assistant in Soil Fertility, Assistant in Soil Analysis at the Agricultural Experiment Station. CLIFFORD WILLIS, Assistant in Soil Physics in the College of Agriculture and in the Agricultural Ex- periment Station, B.S., University of Illinois, ' 00. CASSIUS CLAY HAYDEN, Assistant in Animal Husbandry in the College of Agriculture and in the Agri- cultural Experiment Station, B.S.A., Ohio State University, ' 01. HERBERT ANDREW HOPPER, S¥, Assistant in Dairy Husbandry in the College of Agriculture and in the Agricultural Experiment Station, B.S.A., Cornell University, ' 08. JENNIE MARY LATZER, Assistant in Bacteriology in the College of Agriculture and in the Agricultural Ex- periment Station, B.S., University of Illinois, ' 00; M. S., University of Illinois, ' 01. Our company doesn ' t write that kind of a policy. —Western. 25 1MB 1905 Juuo