Professor Chandler has received the following degrees: Master 

 of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in 1856 from the University of 

 Gottingen ; Doctor of Medicine in 1873 from the New York Uni- 

 versity; Doctor of Laws in 1873 from Union College, Schenectady; 

 and Doctor of Science in 1900, from Oxford University. 



Professor Chandler has published more than fifty articles on 

 chemical subjects, some of the more important of which are listed 



below. 



Miscellaneous Chemical Researches. Inaugural Dissertation for the Degree of 

 Doctor of Philosophy. Gottingen, 1856. 



Examination of Interesting Urinary Calculi, included in a report of Dr. Alden 

 March. (Printed in the Annual Report of the New York State Medical 

 Society for 1858.) 



An investigation on the formation of Alcohol during fermentation. (Published 

 in "Biblical Temperance," by E. C. Delavan, Esq.) 



Report on Water for Locomotives and Boiler Incrustations, made to the Presi- 

 dent and Directors of the New York Central Railroad, including analyses of 

 Waters between Albany and Niagara Falls, and Analyses of Incrustations. 

 (Pamphlet, 8vo. 55 pp. New York, 1865.) 



Report on the Petroleum of the Taro, Italy. (8vo. 8 pp. New York, 1866.) 



Sanitary Qualities of the Water Supplies of New York and Brooklyn. (Report 

 to the Metropolitan Board of Health. 8vo. 9 pp. New York, 1868.) 



A New System of Assay Weights (now used by all Assayers in the United 

 States). Chem. News, Am. Reprint, August, 1869, p. 113. 



Analyses of Six New Mineral Springs at Saratoga. (Ibid., Sept., i86g. p. 194.) 



Report on the Water Supply of New York and Brooklyn; made to the Metro- 

 politan Board of Health. (8vo. 9 pp. New York, 1870.) 



Dangerous Kerosene. Report to the Metropolitan Board of Health (New York, 



1869). 

 The Quality of the Kerosene Oil sold in the Metropolitan District (New 



York, 1870). 

 Report on Petroleum as an Illuminator, and the Advantages and Perils which 



attend its Use, with Special Reference to the Prevention of the Traffic in 



Dangerous Kerosene and Naphtha; made to the Health Department of the 



City of New York. (8vo. 110 pp. New York, 1871.) 

 Report on the Water of the Hudson River; made to the Water Commissioners 



of the City of Albany. A special discussion of the destruction of the sewage 



contamination of large rivers, caused by the dissolved oxygen. (8vo. 25 pp. 



Albany, 1872.) 

 Chemistry of Gas Lighting. (Address delivered before the American Gas 



Lighting Assoc, Oct., 1875 ; Oct. 20. Published : Proceedings, Vol. II, p. 



81. Also American Gas Light Journal, and in the American Chemist, Vol. 



VI, p. 242, 1876.) 

 Presidential address, delivered at the annual meeting of the English Society of 



Chemical Industry at the Royal Institution, July 18, 1900. (Published in 



the Journ. Soc. Chem. Industry.) 



At the time of the opening of the subway in New York City, 



Professor Chandler was called upon to analyze the air in the tubes, 



which many people claimed was injurious to health.. He proved 



by his analyses that the air in the subway was as pure as that above 



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