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, Faculty whose scientific work was held to be~ more or less     t`
germane to agriculture. In the main, however, their ser-   ' a
' vices were entirely pgrfunctory. At the time of Dr. Sc0vell’S   c
, I death, the organization of the Experiment Station included  4 f
    nine separate and distinct divisions of work and the Experi-   s
l ment Station StaE numbered forty-{ive persons. No thought-  { 4. E
L p   L ful man, familiar with the facts, but what irlust stand   c
_`     amazed at the growth and development of theinstitution   r
  ‘ l . within the Hrst twenty-seven years of its existence, and no  5 ~ t
    T one conversant with these matters can fail to pay a tribute (
I   p of honor and respect to the genius of Dr. Scovell and to his  A (
  -_   P untiring eHorts on behalf of the institution that he served.  , (
  _P ·   MELVILLE AMASA SCOVELL °  _  
  Y     Melville Amasa Scovell, the son of Nathan and Hannah  i ‘
  é Scovell, was born at Belvidere, New Jersey, February 26, 4 1
I     1855. Shortly after his birth, his father’s famil·y moved to  
  4, Chicago and from there to a farm in Champaign County, 1
    ``i`     Illinois. Dr. Scovell graduated from the high school in 1870, .  
  and in 1871, he entered the University of Illinois, where he
    specialized in chemistry, becoming student-assistant in 1872, '
        and then instructor in chemistry, which last position he held —
    for one year. While acting in the capacity of instructor in 4
    chemistry in the University of Illinois, he had. charge of a A
  chemical exhibit for the University of Illinois at the Centen-
  nial Exposition at Philadelphia. He also acted in the
  capacity of private secretary to Regent Gregory during the
  years 1876-79. He was appointed Instructor in Agricultural ` e
  4 Chemistry, June 4, 1878; Assistant-Professor of Agricultural
  Chemistry in June, 1879, and finally Professor of Agricul-  
  tural Chemistry in September, 1880, being the first incum-
  bent of this position in the University of Illinois. During *
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