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fellow-ineinber  of  the  College— Dr.  Charles  A.  Weidenianu,  '67— as  a  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  State  Association. 
The  following  delegates  were  appointed  to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  to  be  held  at  Put-in-Bay  early  in  September 
next  :  Prof.  Henry  Kraemer,  F.  W.  K.  Stedem,  Win.  Mclntyre,  Wm.  L.  Cliffe, 
George  M.  Beriuger.    The  delegation  was  given  power  to  fill  vacancies. 
The  meeting,  on  motion,  adjourned. 
J.  W.  England, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
PERSONAL. 
Charles  F.  Chandler. — To  few  men  is  given  the  privilege  of  seeing  the 
fruition  of  their  labors  while  still  full  of  all  the  powers  of  the  mind  and  body. 
Thirty-five  years  ago  Dr.  Chandler— then  not  quite  thirty  years  of  age — started, 
with  the  co-operation  of  Professor  Bgleston  and  General  Vinton,  the  School  of 
Mines  of  Columbia  College.  Leaving  Union  College  with  an  assured  income 
and  everything  that  could  be  desired  in  many  ways,  he  ventured  on  what 
seemed  to  be  to  others  an  unpromising  project,  without  a  salary  and  with  an 
institution  poorly  equipped  in  every  way,  but  with  men  of  brains,  enthusiasm 
and  determination  to  succeed.  Since  that  time  the  school  has  grown,  until  the 
chemical  department  alone  has  the  most  elegant  and  commodious  building 
devoted  to  chemistry  to  be  found  anywhere  (known  as  Havermeyer  Hall,  and 
provided  by  the  Havermeyer  family) ,  costing  $750,000,  and  equipped  with  almost 
everything  that  can  be  desired. 
Professor  Chandler  has  been  a  pioneer  in  many  directions.  Born  in  Lan- 
caster, Mass.,  with  that  "  I-want-to-know "  disposition,  he  was  not  content 
with  the  realization  of  years  of  scientific  studies  in  Harvard,  Gottingen  and 
Berlin,  but  determined  to  turn  it  to  account  for  the  benefit  of  the  people  with 
whom  he  lived,  and  who  called  upon  him  for  his  services.  As  a  chemist  and 
subsequently  as  President  of  the  Board  of  Health  in  New  York  City,  he  con- 
tributed a  noteworthy  chapter  to  the  sanitation  of  the  city.  He  was  instrumental 
in  securing  the  introduction  of  a  proper  system  of  plumbing  and  house  drainage,, 
the  permanent  system  of  gratuitous  vaccination,  the  proper  care  of  contagious 
diseases  in  special  hospitals,  the  abatement  of  the  sludge  oil  nuisance,  the  regu- 
lation of  the  sale  of  dangerous  kerosene  oil,  adulterated  liquors,  and  the  regu- 
lation of  the  water  and  milk  supplies,  etc.,  etc.  Any  one  who  has  heard  Dr. 
Chandler  lecture  daily  for  four  years  readily  comprehends  why  he  has  not 
written  books,  as  his  time  has  been  so  fully  occupied  with  the  demands  of  his 
students  as  well  as  the  public.  There  are  probably  few  other  teachers  whose 
lives  so  enter  into  their  work,  and  the  notes  of  whose  lectures  are  considered 
so  invaluable,  as  that  of  Professor  Chandler. 
Many  persons  look  upon  Professor  Chandler  as  being  a  "  lucky  "  man.  But 
if  there  is  any  man  who  is  a  living  example  of  the  essay  of  Sydney  Smith  on 
"Labor  and  Genius,"  it  is  Dr.  Chandler.  Every  institution  and  organi- 
zation with  which  he  has  been  associated  from  its  humble  beginnings 
has  sprung,  through  his  unselfish  and  never-ceasing  labors,  to  be  recog- 
nized as  a  power  for  good.  It  is  but  natural  for  the  multitude — 
who    do    not    comprehend    the    powers    of   Dr.    Chandler — to    cry  out 
