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Personal. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharra. 
1  September,  18!>5). 
"a  miracle  of  genius ;"  "yes,  he  is  a  miracle  of  genius  because  he  is 
a  miracle  of  labor ;  because,  instead  of  trusting  to  the  resources  of  his 
own  single  mind,  he  has  ransacked  a  thousand  minds  ;  because  he  makes 
use  of  the  accumulated  wisdom  of  the  ages,  and  takes  as  his  point  of 
departure  the  very  last  line  and  boundary  to  which  science  has  advanced  ; 
because  it  has  ever  been  the  object  of  his  life  to  assist  every  intellectual  gift  of 
nature,  however  munificent  and  however  splendid,  with  every  resource  that  art 
could  suggest,  and  every  attention  diligence  could  bestow."  All  of  his  students 
know  this  too  well.  The  Chemical  Museum  of  Havermeyer  Hall — not  to  be 
duplicated  anywhere  because  of  this  spirit — speaks  better  than  anything  else  of 
these  qualities  of  Dr.  Chandler.    We  do  not  wonder  that  the  Society  of  Chemi- 
cal Industry,  at  its  recent  meeting  at  Xewcastle-on-Tyne,  has  honored  Professor 
Chandler  with  the  Presidency  of  that  body.  As  we  have  already  said,  we  appre- 
ciate that  it  is  a  great  honor  to  Professor  Chandler,  but  we  also  recognize  that 
it  is  an  honor  for  the  Society  to  select  such  a  man  as  President,  who  has  been 
esteemed  by  men  of  letters,  and  science  and  art,  as  well  as  by  men  of  large 
business  enterprises  of  this  and  other  lands,  for  nearh-  two  generations.  We 
rejoice  that  his  step  is  as  elastic,  and  his  mind  as  active,  and  his  health  apparently 
as  good  to  day  as  ten  years  ago,  when  we  first  had  the  pleasure  of  knowing 
him.  Henry  Kraemer,  '95, 
School  of  Mi7ies  of  Columbia  University. 
