100 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



he became a warm friend to me. There were no outward 

 manifestations of religion in our boarding-house. Grace 

 was, I believe, never said at table, nor did I ever hear a 

 prayer in the house. I trust that private personal prayers 

 ascended from some hearts and lips, in a house where so 

 many were amiable and worthy, although without a relig- 

 ious garb. On the Sabbath, some of our gentlemen re- 

 sorted to the churches, and some dined out on that day. 

 For myself I attended, almost without exception, the 

 church of the Rev. Dr. Ashbel Green. He was an excel- 

 lent preacher, and I was favored with his kind regard. 

 Rev. Dr. Janeway was his colleague, and preached with 

 ability. My friend Charles Chauncey was generally my 

 companion at Dr. Green's church in Arch Street. Mrs. 

 Smith and her daughter Elizabeth also attended in this 

 church, they held Dr. Green in high reverence, and re- 

 spected religion. He was afterwards and for many years 

 President of Princeton College. 



My Opportunities for Professional Improvement. The 

 lectures on chemistry by Dr. James Woodhouse formed a 

 part of the course of medical instruction in the Medical 

 School of Philadelphia. These were given in a small 

 building in South Fourth Street, opposite to the State- 

 House Yard. Above, over the laboratory, was the Anatom- 

 ical Hall. Neither of these establishments was equal to 

 the dignity and importance of the Medical School, and the 

 accommodations in both were limited : the lecture-rooms 

 were not capacious enough for more than one hundred or 

 one hundred and twenty pupils, and there was a great de- 

 ficiency of extra room for the work, which was limited to 

 a few closets. The chemical lectures were important to 

 me, who had as yet seen few chemical experiments. Those 

 performed by Dr. Woodhouse were valuable, because every 

 fact, with its proof, was an acquisition to me. The appa- 

 ratus was humble, but it answered to exhibit some of the 



