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WE learn from Science that Dr. Fritz Wilhelm Woll, professor of animal nutrition in the University of California, died on December 6 at the age of fifty-seven. Dr. Woll was born and educated in Norway; on going to the United States, he became attached to the University of Wisconsin and was appointed assistant chemist in 1887, and later chemist, to the Wisconsin Agricultural Experimental Station. In 1906 he became professor of agricultural chemistry in the University, a post which he held until 1913, when he went to the University of California as professor of animal nutrition. Dr. Woll issued a number of valuable reports and bulletins on dairy matters and stock feeding while he was in charge of the research stations, and wrote, among other works, “A Book on Silage,” “Testing Milk and its Products,” and “Productive Feeding of Farm Animals,” all of which have passed through several editions. According to Science, it was due mainly to Dr. Woll's efforts that the cow-testing associations, of so much importance to the dairy industry of California, have been developed and placed on a permanent basis.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 111, 229–230 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111229c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111229c0