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s , , , ,s , , g l C:-T151 E - coLvM BIAN 37 i i : 'i professor in 18775 this same year Professor Joy retired and chemistry in all the schools became unified, with Dr. Chandler at the head. In l866, Dr. Chandler had begun to lecture in the College of Phar- macy and he continued to do so with only one interruption for forty-four years. To all this were added duties on the Board of Health, outside expert work, and the many calls made upon the time of a lead- ing citizen. In l867, he became Chemist of the Health Board, and later its President, which office he held until ISS4. In I87O, in association with his brother William, he began the publication of the American Chemist, and this he continued until l877. When the National Academy of Science was enacted, he was one ofthe early appointees. l-le was one of the organizers of the American Chemical Society, and was largely instrumental in the formation of the New York Chemists' Club, and its Presi- dent 1899-1900. His crowning honor came in l899, when he was chosen President of the Society of Chemical Industry, delivering the annual presidential address in London, choosing for his subject A Sketch of the Development of Technical Education in the United States, a paper of decided value. Ar this time he received the honorary degree of doctor of science from the University of Oxford. Many more honors have come to Dr. Chandler in the long years of his service, but no other can compare with that of being enshrined in the hearts of the many students who have listened to his kindly counsel and looked up to him as their beloved instructor. K. T. K. ..2 3.-
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.. ffifi' . , ,... . ., . . ...1. . . .- . -. .- s- . -. -- '-'4: Qthzxrllzrf ilirrhrirk Glhsmhlrr ,, ,N I-IARLES FREDRICK CHANDLER, who, after more than forty years, connec- Qrd 555: tion with Columbia University, has recently been made Professor Emeritus, was e,L .SM born in Lancaster, Mass., December 6th, IS36. His boyhood passed in the usual F occupations of a growing lad, but as he approached manhood he became filled with 'i i95 '5 2 a desire to study science, and selected chemistry for his life work and Harvard as i s the place of preparation. In the Lawrence Scientific School where he worked the equipment was severely plain, for those were the days before the Bunsen burner had been invented. Quantitative analysis was in its infancy, and the religious prejudice of the day did much to retard the development of natural science. After a year's stay at Harvard, the young student moved to Germany, and matriculated in the University of Cioettingen, but later went to Berlin, where Wohler, then the great teacher of chemistry, was in the full tide of his activities. I-lis enthusiasm inspired the young student, who spent long, laborious, but happy hours on his work. I-le made his doctorate in IS56, when only nineteen years of age, and his Arbeit entitled Miscellaneous Chemical Researches was afterwards duly recorded in Dana's i'System of Mineralogyn and referred to as UC. F. Chandler's Inaugural Dissertation, .l856,', having been, among other things, based upon the analysis of a choice assortment of rare - and difficult minerals. Some years earlier there had returned to this country from Csermany another student of Chemistry, Charles A. Joy, who had become Professor of Chemistry in Union College, but in l857 he was called to tal-te the chair in Columbia College, and his place at Union was filled by Dr. C. F. Chandler, who for several years remained an active mem- ber of the Union College faculty. In 1863, Thomas Egleston, a graduate of Yale and the Ecole des Mines of Paris, and but recently returned to this country, proposed to the trustees of Columbia College that they start a School of Mines. He found a strong ally in Dr. F. A. P. Barnard, who a year later became President of Colum- bia and who realized the need of such an institution in America. Although gold had been discovered in California fifteen years before, mining was but in its infancy. Ten years before this D. Whitney had published his great work, Metallic Wealth of the United Statesf' and this had done much to pave the way for a favorable consideration of Mr. Eglestonis pro- posal, and in I864 the trustees authorized the inauguration of the new school without however attaching salaries to the new chairs. Thomas Egleston was made professor of mineralogy and metallurgy. Fran- cis l... Vinton, a West Point graduate, was made professor of mining engineering, and at the suggestion of Professor joy, Dr. Chandler was called to be professor of chemistry. From the faculty of Columbia Professors Van Amringe, Peck, Rood and Joy volunteered their services, and were the following year regularly appointed as professors. They were joined in i866 by Dr. John Newberry, in the chair of geology, and this faculty remained practically unchanged for the next ten years, Dr. Chandler serving as Dean. The School of Mines grew rapidly and soon became an institution for instruction in prac- tically all branches of engineering, mathematics physics and chemistry being fundamental to them all. Dr. Chandler's department has been basal in all subsequent development. In l872, Dr. Chandler became adjunct professor of chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was made full -22.-
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