Terra Mariae . DEAN H. B. McDonnell KAN H. W. McDOXXELI. was born and reared on a farm5^515; in Washington County, Penn- ^^ sxlvania. He attended severalacademies, taught school and com-pleted courses at the PennsylvaniaState College and the University ofMaryland and Johns Hopkins Uni-Aersity. He came to the MarylandAgricultural College in 91, as StateChemist and Professor of AgriculturalChemistry, and the next year wasgiven full charge of the ChemistryDepartment. He is widely known as an expert gninspection legislation and has draftedall the Maryland laws on fertilizers,feeds and lime inspect
Terra Mariae . DEAN H. B. McDonnell KAN H. W. McDOXXELI. was born and reared on a farm5^515; in Washington County, Penn- ^^ sxlvania. He attended severalacademies, taught school and com-pleted courses at the PennsylvaniaState College and the University ofMaryland and Johns Hopkins Uni-Aersity. He came to the MarylandAgricultural College in 91, as StateChemist and Professor of AgriculturalChemistry, and the next year wasgiven full charge of the ChemistryDepartment. He is widely known as an expert gninspection legislation and has draftedall the Maryland laws on fertilizers,feeds and lime inspection since 1891. He is a member of numerous scien-tifiic, fraternal and social organiza-tions, and is especially well known tothe students prior to 1915, when he. had to relinciuish much of his teach-ing due to the pressure of state in-spection wiirk. School of CKemistr^) ^^ HE original of the School of Chemistry was the Depart-\_J ment of Chemistry, dating from the beginning of the College. Itshould be noted that it was the work of chemistry as related to agri-culture that brought about the establishment of agricultural collegesin this country and Europe, of which our University was a pioneer. The real epoch in the development of the Chemical Department was inthe latter part of 1890, due to the second Morrill Act. The College facultywas enlarged, a new Department of Agricultural Chemistry was created earlyin 1891, with the present dean of the School of Chemistry in charge. This de-partment was also to develop the fertilizer inspection, a law establishing thiswork having been enacted about this time. The quarters for chemistry becoming inadequate, the present ChemistryBuilding was erected in 1896, but was not occupied and equipped
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