360  Teachers  of  Chemistry  in  America.  {Ar^.ujusrt,^mm 
lectures  on  chemistry,  freely  illustrated  by  actual  experiments,  were 
given  in  connection  with  the  regular  course  of  medical  instruction 
in  the  medical  department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  This 
department  occupied  a  small  building  on  South  Fifth  Street,  opposite 
the  State  House  yard,  that  was  variously  known  as  Surgeon's  Hall, 
Anatomical  Hall,  or  The  Laboratory.    It  was  in  this  same  building 
THE  LABORATORY  AND  MEDICAL  SCHOOL 
(1765-1807)-. 
From  "The  History  of  Medicine  in  the  United  States,"  by  Francis 
R.  Packard,  M.D. 
that  the  first  chemical  society  held  its  weekly  meetings,  and  it  was 
probably  in  the  chemical  laboratory,  situated  on  the  first  floor,  that 
Seybert,  Hare,  Woodhouse,  Bryant  and  others  of  the  more  active 
members,  made  their  analyses  of  and  experiments  with  indigenous 
minerals. 
This  early  chemical  society  was  under  the  patronage  of  Drs.  Sey- 
bert and  Woodhouse,  and  included  among  its  list  of  active  members 
