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Early Friends. His Early Productions. Early Letters. His 

 Religious Impressions 45 



PART II. 



FROM HIS APPOINTMENT AS PROFESSOR TO THE COMMENCE 

 MENT OF HIS CAREER AS A PUBLIC LECTURER. 



J802-1834. 



CHAPTER IV. 



APPOINTED PROFESSOR: A STUDENT OF CHEMISTRY IN PHILA 

 DELPHIA. 



His Long Acquaintance with Yale College. The Study of Science in 

 Yale College in the Last Century. His Consultation with Dr. 

 Dwight, and the Offer of the Professorship of Chemistry. His 

 Reasons for Accepting this Proposal. His Election to the Office. 

 His First Winter in Philadelphia (1802-3). His Fellow-Boarders at 

 Mrs. Smith's. Dr. Woodhouse's Lectures. His Association with 

 Robert Hare. The Oxy-Hydrogen Blow-Pipe. Dr. Benjamin 

 Rush. Dr. Barton's Lectures. Dr. Wistar's Lectures. Inter 

 view with Dr. Priestley. Summer of 1803 at New Haven. 

 Brief Residence in Princeton. Dr. John Maclean. President 

 Smith. His Second Winter in Philadelphia (1803-4). His Ac 

 quaintance in that City. Correspondence with G. S. Silliman, 

 Moses Stuart, J. L. Kingsley, &c 87 



CHAPTER V. 



THE BEGINNING OF HIS WORK AS PROFESSOR. 



His First Lectures in College (1804). Construction of the Subterra 

 nean Laboratory. Its Alteration. Lectures to the Class of 1804-5 

 (in the Fall of 1804). His Apparatus. Suggestions of Dr. 

 Priestley. r Plan for Visiting Europe. Interview with President 

 Dwight. Preparations for Departure. Letter from Rev. John 

 Pierpont. Letters of Professor Silliman to his Brother 121 



CHAPTER VI. 

 VISIT TO EUROPE: RESIDENCE IN LONDON. 



Residence in Europe. Mr. John Taylor. Dr. William Henry. 

 Dr. Dalton's Lecture and Conversation. Arrival in London. Mr. 



