WILEY, HARVEY WASHINGTON 8 ( ,1_44-1930), Amer ican chemist, was born in Kent, Indiana, Oct. 18, 1844. He was educated at Hanover (Ind.) college, Indiana Medical college and Harvard. He served as State chemist of Indiana and professor of chemistry at Purdue university (1874-83), and in 1883 became chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This position he held with signal success until his resignation in 1912. He was the chief force behind the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act in 1906, and devoted his energies to its enforcement. Pressure was exercised in 1911 to obtain his dismissal on the technical charge that an expert in his department had received recompense exceeding the legal rate. President Taft wholly exonerated him. Dr. Wiley resigned in 1912, thereafter devoting himself largely to the cause of pure food by lecturing and writing. From 1899 on he was professor of agricultural chemistry
at George Washington university. He died June 3o, 193o.
Beside some 6o government pamphlets and several hundred scientific papers he wrote: The Sugar Industry of the United States (1885) ; Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis (3 vol. 1894-97 ; rev. ed., 1906-14) ; Foods and Their Adulterations (19o7, 3rd ed., 1917) ; The Lure of the Land (1915); Not by Bread Alone; The Principles of Human Nutrition (1915); zooz Tests of Foods, Beverages and Toilet Accessories (1916) ; and Beverages and Their Adulteration (1919). He also edited a series of Health Readers for Schools in 1919.