CHAPTER XIII. 



HIS PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANTS: HIS LOSS OF HEALTH: 

 HIS "ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY." 



Organization for Aid in his Department. His Assistant, Lyman Foot: 

 Subsequent History of Dr. Foot. Professor D. Olmsted. Mr. George 

 T. Bowen: their Subsequent History. Temporary Assistants. First 

 Permanent Assistant, Mr. S. J. Andrews. Domestic Affliction, and 

 Interruption of his Health. Journey to West Point. Death of Pro 

 fessor A. M. Fisher. Second Journey with Mr. Wadsworth. Mr. 

 Andrews as Amanuensis. Journey to Ballston and Saratoga. Jour 

 ney to Washington : Dinner with Mr. Calhoun : Interview with Presi 

 dent Monroe : Visit to Arlington House : Notice of Mr. and Mrs. Custis. 

 Means by which his Health was Regained. Advantages of Tem 

 perance. Resignation and Subsequent Career of Mr. Andrews. Mr. 

 Benjamin D. Silliman, Successor of Mr. Andrews. Dr. Burr Xoyes: 

 Professor Charles U. Shepard: Professor Oliver P. Hubbard: Professor 

 J. D. Dana: Professor B. Silliman, Jr., and other Assistants. His 

 "Elements of Chemistry." Correspondence: Letters from Professor 

 A. M. Fisher, Mrs. Sigournej', D. Wadsworth, J. C. Calhoun, Jared 

 Sparks, Josiah Quincy, Lafayette, Commodore Hull, H. W. Desaussure, 

 J. Fenimore Cooper. 



IN 1806 I made the first arrangement for regular aid in 

 the manual service of my departments. Before I went to 

 England, I depended on accidental assistance, by hiring 

 one and another to do the work. But in the autumn of 

 1806, being at Wallingford, Mrs. Noyes recommended to 

 me a lad of about twelve years of age, by name, Foot, who 

 soon after came to me at the College, and a sleeping-room 

 was prepared for him in the attic of the Lyceum, in which 

 building was my own chamber. He did the work of the 

 laboratory as far as he was able. During the autumnal, 

 winter, and spring seasons, after my return from England, 

 in June 1806, I had my breakfast and evening tea in my 

 chamber, until October 1809, when I had a better home, 



