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annum ; as an officer of the College you will, I suppose, be en- 

 titled to a room in the College buildings if you wish to use it, 

 and you can eke out your salary, should you wish to do so, by 

 private instruction in the schools. 



Your name appears in the July No. of the Journal as Assist- 

 ant, which liberty I hope you will pardon. Prof. Porter and 

 myself are responsible for your salary, but $200 or $250 will 

 be the income of a permanent fund, the remainder if not 

 earned by the Laboratory will be made up by us. We are 

 sorry to be obliged to offer you so inconsiderable a sum, but 

 as you know the Laboratory is unendowed, and we are forced 

 to make it pay its own expenses, i.e. salaries of yourself and 

 Mr. Chas. Porter and the material and apparatus, fuel and 

 servant, etc. For ourselves we do not expect to draw a dime 

 from it, and shall consider ourselves fortunate if we do not 

 have to make up a considerable deficit. With the new organi- 

 zation, however, we hope for a new vitality in the condition of 

 the Laboratory. The new system of instruction in the Senior 

 Class by which recitations are substituted for lectures in the 

 proportion of 24 of the former to 36 of the latter will, when 

 it comes into full play the ensuing winter, develop all the 

 chemical talent that there is in the class, and no doubt induce 

 some to enter the Analytical Laboratory who otherwise would 

 not do so. Mr. Chas. Porter, who is the second in authority, 

 yourself being first, will take the commercial analyses and 

 aid you in such things as you may desire. During the first 

 term I shall have 3 exercises daily with the general class, and 

 can, of course, devote no time to instruction in the Analytical 

 Laboratory. But in the 2d and 3d terms I shall undertake 

 to give instruction in mineralogy and in technical chemistry. 

 Until Brush comes home in the fall of '56 we shall hardly be 

 able to make our scheme complete, and shall hold ourselves 

 open for a remodeling. . . . The old laboratory is in a good 

 deal of a dilapidated condition and needs repairs very much. 

 These we shall hope to make in vacation. Yours truly, 



B. Silliman, Jr. 



