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and had charge of that branch of science in the early days of rnrduo. He 

 had a happy constrnctive faculty and could make a very modest collec- 

 tion of appliances serve for extended illustrations. Frofessor Hougham 

 was a manufacturer of philosophical apparatus, and Franklin College had 

 the benefit of many of the pieces of apparatus which he built. He took 

 post-graduate work at Brown University, and the first chemical laboratory 

 built at Purdue was constructed on the exact plans of the laboratory at 

 Brown. The Civil War had a depressing effect upon Franklin College, and 

 I believe it was the only institution of higher learning which was closed 

 for a period as a result directly or indirectly of that conflict. There w^as 

 an interregnum at Franklin from 18(!5 to 1869. When the institution 

 opened again in 18G9, President Stott took temporary charge of chemistry, 

 physics, physiology, botany and geology. The text-books used then were 

 Youman's in chemistry; Ganot and Olmsted's in physics; Dana's in geol- 

 ogy; Gray's in botany; and Hitchcock's in physiology. At the present time 

 there are four large rooms devoted to chemistry, one to physics, and three 

 to liiology. There are tAvo full jirofessors giving instruction in these sci- 

 ences and the laljoratories are well supplied with apparatus and Avith 

 working libraries. Franklin has also an excellent biological collection, 

 mostly the gift of Mr. (;or))y. at one time State Geologist. 



DePauw University, in tliose days, was known as Asbury, and perhaps 

 the only science teach( r in the institution was Joseph Tingley. 1 never 

 had the good fortune to know Professor Tingley very well, I)ut met him 

 on one or two occasions. One of these I should like to recall. It was, I 

 think, in the winter of 1870, when he gave an illustrated lecture on elec- 

 tricity in Indianapolis. This was the first occasion on which I ever saw 

 an electric light produced by the current passing between two carbon 

 points. This current was generated by a battery of a great many cells 

 (I have forgotten just now how many) composed of the elements of carbon 

 and zinc. It was not a very big light, but very intense, and I imagine that 

 none of the audience present, and it was a large one, had ever seen an elec- 

 tric light before. I have no douljt I address some here who were students 

 of Professor Tingley, and they, without question, can say the good things 

 of him which I, from my personal acquaintance, have said of Doctors 

 Scott and Brown. In connection with the exhibition of the electric light 

 which is now so universal in all our cities and towns, I might call atten- 

 tion to the fact that the first electric light generated by a dynamo seen in 

 Indiana was at Purdue University. During the Centennial Exposition of 



