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sequent to the resignation of Prof. Joy, his successor in the chair 

 of Chemistry in Union. 



In 1857 Columbia College moved to its present site in Madison 

 Avenue, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Streets, and the chair 

 of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry, then held 

 by Prof. Richard McCulloh, was divided so as to form the chair 

 of Mechanics and Physics, which was retained by Prof. McCulloh, 

 while a call to that of Chemistry was given to Prof. Joy. It is 

 perhaps worth recording that the only other candidate suggested 

 for the new chair was Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, an alumnus of Columbia, 

 in the class of 1841, then Professor of Physics and Chemistry at 

 the College of the City of New York, whence, in 1863, he was called 

 to the Rumf ord chair in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard. 



With the prestige of a splendid education, a successful career 

 at Union, and with fine social qualities, Prof. Joy was indeed well 

 fitted to advance the course of chemistry in Columbia. Almost 

 at once he founded in connection with his department a School of 

 Chemistry, designed to give a complete professional education in 

 chemistry to such as desired it. In the prospectus he wrote, 

 " The laboratory is furnished with the best modern appliances for 

 acquiring a thorough knowledge of chemistry and the applications 

 of the science to agriculture and the arts." Among those who 

 availed themselves of this instruction were Major Clarence S. 

 Brown, Captain William Jay, and other officers of the United 

 States army ; also such mining engineers as George William May- 

 nard, Edward M. Pell, and others ; while classed as chemists were 

 Julius H. Tieman, Peter C. Tieman, and William J. Youmans. 

 The success of this experiment made it easily possible, in 1863, to 

 interest the trustees of Columbia College in accepting the plan 

 proposed by Thomas Egleston, Jr., for the establishment of a 

 School of Mines. Prof. Joy was a pronounced advocate of this un- 

 dertaking from the outset. He was urged to assume charge of the 

 department of chemistry in the new school, but this he declined, 

 and recommended that his assistant at Union, Prof. Charles 

 F. Chandler, be called to organize the department. This advice 

 was at once favorably acted on by the trustees of Columbia Col- 

 lege, and Prof. Chandler was given the chair of Analytical and 

 Applied Chemistry, with charge of the laboratories. Although 

 his duties in the academic department were already quite onerous, 

 Prof. Joy promptly volunteered his services as lecturer, and in 

 the first catalogue of the School of Mines his name appears as 

 in charge of organic chemistry. Later, when the regular fac- 

 ulty was organized, he was made Professor of General Chemis- 

 try, and so continued until his retirement in 1877; also in the 

 meanwhile he remained at the head of the chemical department 

 of the college proper. 



