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COMMITTEE. MEMBERS OP THE ACADEMY. WILLIAM H. BREWER, Ph. Dr., Norton Professor of Agriculture, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College. CHAS. F. CHANDLER, Ph. Dr., Professor of Chemistry, Columbia College, New York. SAMUEL W. JOHNSON, M. A., Professor of Theoretical and Agricultural Chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College. BENJ. SILLIMAN, M. A., M. D., Chairman, Professor of Chemistry, &c., Yale College. J. LAWRENCE SMITH, M. D., late Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Kentucky. AND ALSO NOT OF THE ACADEMY. GIDEON E. MOOKE, Ph. D., Expert, New York. NOTE.âDr. C. A. GOSSSMANN, Professor of Chemistry at the M assachusetts Agri cultural College, at Amherst, was also a member of this Committee, and acted in the work until September 15, 1882, when he resigned. The Committee desire to acknowl- edge the valuable co-operation of their colleague in the inception and progress of this investigation, and to express their regret that his name should not appear on this report, as it so often appears in it, as one of the earliest investigators of the augar-producing capacity of sorghum.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
NOTE. JUNE, 1883. The first draft of this report was submitted to the National Academy of Sciences at its session in Washington in April, 1882. The official copy of the Document was transmitted to the Commissioner of Agri- culture in November following. The Committee have embraced this opportunity to add to their Report the results of the crop grown in 1882, as also some matters of historical interest relating to sorghum. THE COMMITTEE.