A memorial to the patrons of the University on the present state of practical chemistry / by David Boswell Reid.

Date:
1833
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Credit: A memorial to the patrons of the University on the present state of practical chemistry / by David Boswell Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    A series of Practical Exercises have also been instituted, and the arrangements connected with these, as well as with the peculiarities of my system, I shall gladly submit, either to the Patrons individually, or to any Committee whom they may choose to appoint. In extending my plans, I have bestowed much care in guarding against every source of accident to the Students while conducting their different experiments; and though I have been frequently severely injured in adjusting new processes before I allowed them to form part of the Practical Course, I may be allowed to appeal to the circumstance, as a proof of the time I have spent in this part of my arrangements, that, though very nearly a thousand students have now at- tended my classes, each having operated during a Three Months’ Course, no accident has hitherto taken place. In completing my plans, I visited the great manufacturing towns both here and in England ; and, at the present mo- ment, a great range of new apparatus is in use in my Class- room, which has been made expressly for my Course at these different places, and especially adapted for Students of Prac- tical Chemistry, Under these circumstances, I certainly cannot be accused of presumption in putting forth some claim to a department which has been generally made subordinate to Lectures, or taught at a leisure hour by those engaged in other avocations, but which has been the main business of my life, to which I have made numerous sacrifices, and devoted a great number of years of the most laborious and anxious attention. I have the honour to be, My Lord and Gentlemen, Most respectfully, Your very obedient servant, D. 13. REID Edinburgh, February 10. 833.
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