90 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



lurgY was confirmed, and Samuel William Johnson was 

 appointed, not as he had hoped and as the faculty had 

 recommended, assistant professor, but merely first 

 assistant in the Analytical Laboratory. 



Mr. Brush, who was then in Freiberg, wrote on 

 May 13, to Mr. Johnson: 



Silliman says we have $250 income from the Sheffield fund 

 and $300 from the Labt. itself, and as Barnard has left $20,000 

 the income of which will be devoted to charitable and educa- 

 tional purposes, Silliman is in hope of getting $250 or $300 

 per annum in case you should take the place of Asst. at Yale, 

 making in all quite a decent salary to commence on. . . . S. 

 says "no effort of mine will be wanting to that end." . . . 

 Dana adds "I have no idea that the school will ever flourish 

 until there is some one in it who has so much zeal for science 

 that he cannot help but work in it, in researches of one kind 

 or another." ... So you see, Sam, that we have the confi- 

 dence of the Profs., and I trust we shall be able to make things 

 move when we return home. We'll see whether we cannot 

 revive things and inspire some new life in the School. 



(B. S. Jr. to S. W. J.) 



July 2, 1855. 



My dear Sir, — I have the pleasure to inform you that you 

 have been nominated Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Tale Scientific School and as soon as your appointment has 

 been confirmed by the Corporation, which will be on the 26 

 of July, you will have official notice of it. We have for the 

 present decided to offer you as salary six hundred dollars pr. 



judgment contributed largely to the result; but the fact that he was a 

 trained man of science, holding an honored place in his profession, 

 enabled him to ■wield an influence and to accomplish what would have 

 been impossible to one who lacked this important qualification. 



