Record Of The Hampden Sydney Alumni Association V 19 No 2 January 1945 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 19: July 1945 With what means he had, Dabney established a labora tory in a room of an old hotel in Raleigh; gathered around him several college and university men; and began laboratory work on fertilizers, minerals, etc.; while train ing the young men in laboratory methods. With them he made trips throughout the State, looking for mineral deposits that might prove of value to the State and to the country at large. From these field investigations valuable deposits were found and developed; the young men be came experts in practical mineralogy, in industrial chemistry, and were in great demand. In the manufacture of cotton and tobacco, better methods were suggested by Dabney and were adopted; some of them revolutionary in saving time and money. While he was in North Carolina, The Watauga Club was organized by Walter Hines Page, Edwin P. Moses, Dabney, and a few others, the purposes of which were to revolutionize public education in the State; to encourage the study of the practical sciences in State institutions; to work for the upbuilding of industries; to develop scientific agriculture. Much good was done in arousing public opinion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.