horticultural editor of the Iowa State Register, a regular contributor to numerous other scientific journals, a lecturer before scientific societies and conventions, such as the American Forestry Association, and others, and contributor to scientific papers on observations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
William I. Chamberlain, A. B., A. M., LL. D., president, and professor of psychology, ethics and civics, has been a staff contributor for many years to The Country Gentleman (Albany, N. Y.), The Rural New Yorker, The Ohio Farmer, and occasionally has written for The Independent (N. Y.), the American Agriculturist, The Iowa Homestead, The Register, and other papers devoted to agriculture. Several articles of the American Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica, devoted to his specialties, were written by him, and during a six-year service as secretary of agriculture in Ohio, he issued monthly pamphlets (forty pages) and edited the annual Agricultural Report. He is now preparing a small volume on " The Rights and Duties of Citizenship."
Gen. James L. Geddes, of the chair of military science from 1872 to 1883, and for many years treasurer of the college, died in its service in 1887. His war song, " The Bonny Blue Flag," written while in the army about 1862-63, has a place among our national airs. Aside from this his chief literary work was confined to sermons, addresses and newspaper articles. He was formerly, for seven years, in the military service of Great Britain in India.
Byron D. Halsted, Sc. D., now of the chair of botany. in the New Jersey Agricultural College, but from 1885 to 1889 at Iowa Agricultural College, published three books of a scientific and practical nature, entitled Barn Plans and Out-Buildings, Farm Conveniences, and Household Conveniences. Three scientific pamphlets also appeared, one of which was is sued by the Boston Society of Natural History. Among a great variety of other articles were addresses before the State Boards of Agriculture, papers for The American Naturalist, Popular Science Monthly, Scribner's Monthly, and others. '
E. R. Hutchins, M. D., State commissioner of labor statistics, but formerly of the chair of chemistry, has published a professional volume -Obstetrical Aphorisms (fourth edition), and three volumes of biennial reports as labor commissioner, together with various other writings of a general character. His work in the cause of temperance is well known.
George W. Jones, A. M., now of the chair of mathematics at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., but from 1868 to 1874 in this chair at College Farm, has published four volumes, two being interest and logarithmic tables, and the others treatises on algebra and trigonometry, the latter in connection with Profs. Oliver and Wait. He also edited and published the Patron's Helper.
Herbert Osborn, M. Sc., a teacher in the college for the past ten years, has written numerous papers on insects for the State Horticultural Society, the College Quarterly, Western Stock Journal and Farmer, Iowa Homestead, Register, Leader, New York Tribune, Germantown Telegraph, Chicago Herald, Orange Judd Farmer and others. He has also published a large number of scientific pamphlet reports, bulletins and addresses of a professional nature, edited posthumous scientific papers of the late J. Duncan Putnam, of Davenport, and published several volumes of a scientific entomological nature.
Louis H. Pammel, B. Agr., and professor of botany, has written numerous botanical works, issued independently and by the Torrey Botanical Club, the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, the St. Louis Academy of