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for the purpose of ultimately building an Anatomical Museum and 

 Chemical Laboratory. This fund was to accumulate until it reached 

 the sum of ^35,000 ; but Mr. Thayer suggested that the fund be tilled 

 up by private subscription and the building contemplated by Mr. 

 Boylston be at once erected. Accordingly, on the 30th of August, 

 1856, we find this entry in the records of the President and Fellows : 

 " A letter from Professor Cooke having been read, the President, 

 Treasurer, and Dr. Hayward were appointed a Committee to confer 

 with Professors Wyman and Cooke on the subject of an Anatomical 

 Museum and Chemical Laboratory." This project being made known 

 abroad, a storm arose in the Medical Faculty, who feared the com- 

 petition of the proposed Cambridge establishment. On the loth of 

 September following " a memorial from the Medical Faculty on the 

 subject of certain proposed subscriptions was read and referred to the 

 same Committee to which the letter of Professor Cooke was referred 

 at the last meeting of this Board." 



At a meeting of the President and Fellows on September 27th, 

 " on application of Mr. Cooke, Erving Professor of Chemistry and 

 Mineralogy, voted, that the Erving Professor be released from the 

 duty of delivering lectures at the Medical College in Boston." There- 

 upon Professor Cooke caused all the excellent fixtures and furniture 

 which he had provided in the building on North Grove Street to be 

 torn out, and removed with all his apparatus to Cambridge. This 

 vigorous procedure occurred shortly before the opening of the medi- 

 cal course of lectures, and threatened grave inconvenience to the 

 Medical Faculty. At the same time, Professor Morrill Wyman 

 resigned as a member of the Medical Faculty, because he was charged 

 with disloyalty to the Medical Faculty in promoting the building of 

 Boylston Hall. Altogether, the conflict waxed so warm, that Pro- 

 fessor Cooke proposed an adjustment, which was carried into effect. 

 By his advice I gave the first half of the course of chemical lectures 

 at the Medical School, and Professor Cooke lent me, as his friend, 

 all the apparatus and supplies necessary for the purpose. This sud- 

 den and unexpected disturbance led to two good results. It freed 

 Professor Cooke from distracting and uncongenial labors at the 

 Medical College ; and it caused the appointment of a separate Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry for the Medical School, the first incumbent of 

 that professorship being the excellent Dr. John Bacon, who began 

 his labors in January, 1857. Thereafter, Professor Cooke was 

 entirely free to devote himself to the interests of his departments at 

 Cambridge. 



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