nd pay over the income
thereof, as it may accrue, to the treasurer of the college."

The great work of securing the requisite funds, and laying foundations
for this by no means unimportant Department, was committed to the late
Professor Ezekiel W. Dimond. His early experience in affairs gave him
peculiar fitness for this service. Whether occupied in interviewing
legislators and capitalists, or in the planning and erection of
edifices, he labored in season and out of season for the
accomplishment of his task, and with large success. When the
Department went into operation he was one of its principal teachers,
and in this sphere he left upon his pupils the impress of a well-read
chemist and a devotee to his profession. To his efforts, probably more
than to those of any other single individual, is New Hampshire
indebted for whatever of success has been attained in this department.
Indeed, should the Agricultural College leave its stamp upon the
"steep and sterile hillsides," or the more prolific valleys of the
Granite State, as it is devoutly to be hoped that in process of time
it may, no name probably will be so familiarly associated with the
history of its early struggles for existence as that of Dimond.

Nor were Professor Dimond's services to science limited to this
department of the College.

In the Academical and Scientific departments his name appears in the
list of zealous, painstaking teachers.

Professor Dimond's death in 1876, while yet apparently upon the
threshold of a work to which he gave _his life_, was a public loss.

Of Professor Thomas R. Crosby, Professor Quimby says:

"Entering college in 1839, in the Sophomore class, he bestowed
faithful labor on the whole course, while at the same time he did not
forget his favorite studies of Medicine and Natural History. Pursuing
these in his leisure hours, he was fitted to take the degrees of A. B.
and M.D. at the same time, in 1841. With this preparation he entered
at once upon the practice of medicine as his life-work, first at
Campton, afterward at Hartford, Vt., Meriden, and Manchester. He was
one of the active men in originating the Hillsborough Agricultural
Society. He had a hand in organizing the State Society, and in
preparing the first volume of the Society's Transactions. Nearly at
the same time the above society was originated, the publication of the
"Granite Farmer" was commenced, and Dr. Crosby was employed to edit
it, in which position he did