H.E.ストックブリッジ : W.S.クラークの脇役(4)
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Horace Edward STOCKBRIDGE (1857-1930), who came to Sapporo Agricultural College in 1885, already eight years after W. S. CLARK left there, was undoubtedly one of the successors of CLARK'S academic tradition, particularly scientific agriculture and agricultural education. His father, Levi STOCKBRIDGE had been an advocate of agricultural education and was called to Massachusetts Agricultural College to be the first professor of agriculture. The son, in this connection, became a student of this College at the time when CLARK, with the cooperation of Levi STOCKBRIDGE and other staff members of the College, was about to complete his experiments on the circulation of sap and other physiological phenomena of plants. It was also while H. E. STOCKBRIDGE was a student there that CLARK went to and came back from Sapporo. After graduation in 1878, STOCKBRIDGE did his graduate study for two years at Boston University. In 1880, he was employed for a short time at the United States Department of Agriculture. Next year, he was appointed instructor at Massachusetts Agricultural College. Then in the following year he went to Germany to study at the University of Gottingen, where he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1884. He returned to Massachusetts Agricultural College as associate professor of chemistry but almost immediately thereafter was selected, on CLARK'S recommendation, as professor of chemistry and geology at Sapporo Agricultural College, Japan. At Sapporo, in addition to his teaching, STOCKBRIDGE discovered a special fertilizer, to make the growing of hops possible in Japan, and the most approved method for determining the quantity of lupulin (the active constituent) of hops. He was the first to obtain petroleum from extensive deposits of bituminous shale by distillation, and as a government chemist he discovered muscarine as a product of a native food izushi made of fermented rice and fish, which discovery helped explain many hitherto mysterious cases of poisoning as being caused by poisonous products of decomposition called ptomaines. While at Sapporo, he published a book, Rocks and Soils: Their Origin, Composition and Characteristics; Chemical, Geological and Agricultural (New York, 1888). STOCKBRIDGE left Japan early in 1889, and soon after his return to the United States he accepted the appointment as director of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station at Lafayette. He resigned in 1890 to become president of North Dakota Agricultural College and director of the experiment station, both of which institutions were yet to be established. Resigning in 1894, he moved to Americus, Ga. to give his personal attention to his own plantation which he had purchased a few years earlier. He was professor of agriculture at Florida Agricultural College from 1897 to 1902. He became agricultural editor of the Southern Ruralist in 1906 and continued until 1922. Then he served as editor of the Southern Farm and Diary until prevented by his failing health. He was also the author of Land Teaching: a Handbook of Soils, Gardens and Grounds, for Teachers and Cultivators (Georgia, 1910) and of numerous reports and magazine articles.
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