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and at their own expense, fitted up for the purpose—by the 
" permission of College authorities, but without the privilege of 
using the building free of rent. Thus Mr. Silliman, through 
his zeal and energy, early made a strong impression on the sys- 
tem of education at Yale; and the College had, almost un- 
knowingly to itself, taken an important step toward the rank 
and character of a university. 
The School was successful from the beginning, and the 
enthusiasm of the professors called out equal enthusiasm in the 
pupils. It was the germ from which proceeded later, under an 
enlarged faculty—though still an unpaid self-sacrificing faculty 
—the Yale Scientific School; and this prepared the way for 
the greater expansion under the generous gifts of Mr. Sheffield. 
Among the six students of the year 1847, the first after the 
new organization, were three, G. J. Brush, S. W. Johnson and 
Wm. H. Brewer, who later became professors in the Yale 
Scientific School, and are still in active service. Mr. Silliman’s 
“onnection with the Scientific School continued until 1869, but 
his instraction was interrupted by his residence in Louisville 
mentioned below, and to a greater or less degree after his 
return to New Haven by duties in other directions. 
In 1888, Mr. Silliman became associated with his father in 
the editorship of the American Journal of Science and Arts, 
the Journal then in its 21st year and Mr. Silliman in his 22nd. 
his arrangement continued until the close of 1845, when the 
first series of fifty volumes was ended, after which Mr. James 
- Dana was associated with Mr. Silliman in the editorial 
duties, Up to the present time, 1885, his name has stood 
“Mong those of the editors of the Journal now for nearly half 
* Century, 
In the winter of 1845-46, Mr. Silliman gave a course of 
lectures on Agricultural Chemistry in New Orleans upon the 
'RVitation of leading commercial and professional men in that 
city. In 1849 he received the appointment of Professor of 
