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Returning home in 1846 with the warmest recommendations from 

 his great teacher, Mr. Horsford was at once called to direct the chem- 

 ical department of the Scientific School then just established at Har- 

 vard College. The funds of the Rumford Foundation were, perhaps 

 not wholly justifiably, diverted to the support of this department, and 

 Mr. Horsford was appointed Rumford Professor. Fie entered on his 

 duties with great zeal, and inspired such confidence in Mr. Abbott 

 Lawrence as to lead that noble benefactor to build a large chemical 

 laboratory, on the most approved German plan, under the supervision 

 of the enthusiastic teacher, and the original laboratory of the Lawrence 

 Scientific School was far in advance of any similar establishment in 

 the United States at the time. 



The outlook for the new laboratory at the beginning was most 

 auspicious, and the young director had an earnest zeal for purely sci- 

 entific investigation. But, unfortunately, the ways and means had 

 not been adequately provided. Not only there was not sufficient in- 

 come to defray the expenses of so large an establishment, but it was 

 impossible to provide for the necessities of a growing family on the 

 wretched stipend of $1,500 a year. These necessities forced Profes- 

 sor Horsford, as they have many another man, to endeavor to supple- 

 ment his resources by commercial work, and, however much we may 

 deem such work incompatible with the highest interests of a learned 

 institution, our whole sympathy is with the struggling teacher who is 

 forced by such circumstances to loose his hold on higher ideals. As 

 the commercial work widened, Professor Horsford saw that it was 

 incompatible with the full discharge of the duties of his office, and in 

 1863 he resigned his professorship, in honorable distinction from the 

 too frequent practice of using a college position as a basis for commer- 

 cial work. 



It is with great pleasure that we follow Professor Horsford into 

 commercial life, and witness the reward that came to intelligence, per- 

 severance, and industry. If he suffered the trial of renouncing the 

 ideals of youth, he won the great rewards which come from large lib- 

 erality and active benevolence wisely ordered ; and his name will long 

 be cherished in loving remembrance by many hearts. Professor 

 Horsford was elected a Fellow of this Academy on May 25, 1847. 



John Strong Newberry was born in Windsor on December 22, 

 1822. At an early age his parents removed to Ohio, and he was 

 educated at the Western Reserve College and the Cleveland Medical 

 School, After supplementing his professional education in Europe, 

 he settled as a i^hysician in Cleveland; but in 1855 his interest in 



