CHAPTER IV. 



APPOINTED PROFESSOR: A STUDENT OF CHEMISTRY IN 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



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 Ac- 

 ci'pting 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 Lec- 

 tures. Dr. Wistar's Lectures. Interview with Dr. Priestley. Sum- 

 mer of 1803 at New Haven. Brief Residence in Princeton. Dr. 

 John Maclean. President Smith. His Second Winter in Philadel- 

 phia (1803-4). His Acquaintance in that City. Correspondence 

 with G. S. Silliman, Moses Stuart, J. L. Kingsley, c. 



FROM this point we are able to avail ourselves of 

 Mr. Silli man's own Reminiscences. When he com- 

 menced this Record, he had chiefly in view that 

 department of instruction in Yale College with the 

 origin and growth of which he was so closely con- 

 nected. He accordingly begins with a notice of his 

 relations to the College. 



MY own membership in Yale College as an under-grad- 

 uate extended from September, 1792, to September, 1796; 

 jJEt. 13 to 17. Its concerns continued to be known to me 

 during the two succeeding years, when I did not reside in 

 New Haven. In October, 1798, I resumed my residence 

 here, and was engaged in the study of the law. In Sep- 

 tember, 1799, I was appointed a tutor in Yale College, 

 20.) In October following I entered upon the duties 



