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Amherst College] would like to have you come on 

 here next week that he may see you with reference to 

 lectures, etc. next term.' 



Dr. Goessmann's letter accepting the Amherst 

 Professorship runs as follows: - 



SYRACUSE, May 16th, 1868. 



COLONEL W. S. CLARK, Ph.D. 



President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



Amherst, Mass. 

 DEAR SIR, 



Your favour of 13th inst., in which you announce to 

 me my election as Professor of Chemistry in the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, came in due 

 time to hand. I take the liberty of informing you, that 

 I hereby accept that position on the conditions speci- 

 fied in your letter. I add at the same time, that I shall 

 attend most cheerfully to my duties and thereby in 

 my opinion aid you best in accomplishing the object 

 for which your institute has been established. As soon 

 as the present pressure in business shall permit me to 

 settle upon an exact time for a visit at Amherst, to 

 consult on fixtures and apparatus, etc., for my partic- 

 ular branch of instruction, I propose to write again. 

 Please accept my most sincere thanks for the kind 

 interest taken in my behalf. I remain, 

 Very respectfully yours, 



CHARLES ANTON GOESSMANN. 



He was forty-one. President Clark thus describes 

 him: 'The other professor [Goessmann] is not here. 



