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with heart and hand into the spirit of your proposal excepting 

 that I would rather delay at least one year (to Sept. 1857). 

 ... Of the success of the institution I have no doubt if it 

 once gets started on the basis you propose. 



In the summer of 1855, Mr. Johnson went to Eng- 

 land, where he studied methods of gas analysis under 

 Frankland, and also traveled and observed English 

 agriculture. Letters from America kept him informed 

 of the movement of affairs in New Haven. As the 

 result of plans formulated between the years 1853 

 and 1855 for the development and organization of the 

 hitherto loosely connected elements of the Department 

 of Philosophy and the Arts of Yale College, the stu- 

 dents in the Analytical Laboratory and the classes in 

 Engineering were associated together in 1854 under 

 the name ''Yale Scientific School," and at a meeting 

 of the Yale Corporation on July 24, 1855, the nomina- 

 tion of George Jarvis Brush* as professor of Metal- 



* Professor Brush 's life work, the development and guidance to 

 an assured position of the Sheffield Scientific School, is known wherever 

 the name of the school is known. The seemingly accidental way in which 

 he became a man of science is interesting. Professor Brush's father, 

 Mr. JarVis Brush of Brooklyn, was a successful merchant who, when 

 he found that the indoor life of a business man was likely to impair 

 the health of his son, sent him to the Cream Hill Agricultural School 

 to study scientific farming under an old friend. Dr. S. W. Gold. 

 Through the interest taken by Dr. Gold and his son, Mr. T. S. Gold, in the 

 teaching of Professor J. P. Norton at the "School of Science" in New 

 Haven, George Jarvis Brush went to New Haven and was a member of 

 the first class to receive the degree of Ph.B. from Yale. Mr. Brush's 

 marked business and executive talent, as well as his scientific ability, was 

 early recognized. He became director of the Sheffield Scientific School 

 in 1872, and remained its official head until his resignation in 1898. His 

 success in a task which the temper of the time made one of peculiar 

 difficulty and delicacy was conspicuous. His business capacity and sound 



