Harvard University. Rumford Society
The Rumford Society was so called in honor of Count Rumford, who ... bequeathed ... money to Harvard College ... for the purpose of founding a Professorship 'to teach the utility of the physical and mathematical sciences, for the improvement of the useful arts.' ... This Society was founded on the 16th of November, 1848, by a few members of the Junior class who were interested in the study of Chemistry and desired the means of acquiring knowledge in this department of Natural Philosophy. The College Faculty granted ... as a laboratory one of the basement rooms in Massachusetts Hall (No. 3), and gave them all the apparatus formerly belonging to the Davy and Hermetic Clubs
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| creatorOf | Petition of the members of the junior class to the faculty that they may be allowed to found a society, composed of the members of the senior and junior classes interested in chemistry. [With the Constitution, Names of the founders of the society, and autograph lists of members from 1850-58, 1860-64.] | Harvard University Archives. | |
| creatorOf | Reports of the meetings of the Rumford Society of Harvard College from the first term of 1854-55 to the term of [1863] inclusive | Harvard University Archives. | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Allen Foster Boone | Harvard University Archives. | |
| creatorOf | General information by and about the Rumford Society, 1853-1859 | Harvard University Archives. |
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| associatedWith | Boone, Allen Foster, 1838-1915. | person |
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Establishment 1848-11-18
Active 1863
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