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is well described in a memoir of Professor B. Silli- 

 man, Jr., written by Professor Arthur W. Wright: 

 "Although the School had been thus formally recog- 

 nized and had attained to an established position, it 

 received little other encouragement and no substantial 

 aid from the college. . . . The cost of fitting up and 

 equipping the Laboratory, and of providing appara- 

 tus, cabinets and library, was furnished from the pri- 

 vate means of the two professors, who received no 

 salaries from the college and even for two years paid 

 a rent for the use of the building." 



In 1849, B. Silliman, Jr., became professor of medi- 

 cal chemistry and toxicology in the Medical School 

 of the University of Louisville. During the five years 

 he retained this position he spent each winter there, 

 thus leaving Norton alone in the duties and respon- 

 sibilities of the Analytical Laboratory for a part of 

 each college year. Professor Norton was a forceful 

 and untiring worker, of marked ability as a writer 

 and lecturer, who gave much time to the cause of 

 scientific agricultural education, speaking before agri- 

 cultural societies, and writing constantly upon scien- 

 tific topics for the better agricultural journals. He 

 was a practical agriculturist as well as a trained 

 scholar, who saw his duty to lie in work for the coun- 

 try at large quite as much as within the walls of the 

 laboratory where he was training others who should 

 later succeed him. 



In January 1850, Mr. Johnson went to New Haven, 

 relying for support upon his modest savings. This 

 year was an eventful one for him. The classes were 

 small and he was thrown in close personal contact 

 with Professor Norton, whose stimulating and broad- 



