and Surg-eons being- made full professor four years later, which 

 professorship he held nearly twenty-five vears, lecturing on 

 physics and chemistry for four afternoons each week. 



In 1866 Professor Peter Wendover Bedford requested Professor 

 Chandler to aid in the development of the College of Pharmacy of 

 the City of New York, which then occupied a single room in the 

 old building of the University of the State of New York on Wash- 

 ington Square East. The institution was then in a very modest 

 stage of development and had only about thirty students. Profes- 

 sor Chandler accepted the invitation, lecturing three evenings each 

 week during the winter, receiving no salary at first. In fact, he even 



University of the City of New York. Wasliiugton Square.- In 1866 the College of Pliar- 

 maey oceupied the room in the second story the windows of which are marked 

 with crosses. 



furnished the apparatus and the material needed to illustrate his lec- 

 tures. 



The College of Pharmacy of the City of New York had been 

 formally organized as the College of Pharmacy of the City and 

 County of New York at a meeting of prominent pharmacists and 

 wholesale druggists held on March i8, 1829, the constitution having 

 been signed by seventy-two pharmacists. The first officers elected 

 were : President, John D. Keese ; vice-presidents, Henry H. Schief- 

 felin. John L. Embree, and Waldron P. Post; treasurer, Theodore 

 Keese ; secretary, Oliver Hull, and trustees, H. T. Kiersted, Con- 



