Correspondence by John Gorham, Erving Professor of Chemistry, 1825-1826 and undated.

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Correspondence by John Gorham, Erving Professor of Chemistry, 1825-1826 and undated.

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The correspondence in this collection documents a small part of the teaching and administrative activities of John Gorham, Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard from 1825 to 1826. The letters also allude to the financial difficulties the College experienced after 1824 when a grant of $10,000 that Harvard received annually from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was not renewed and led to a period of economizing; including a reduction of professors' salaries.

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Gorham, John, 1783-1829

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John Gorham (1783-1829), a chemist and physician from Boston, Massachusetts, served as Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica from 1809 to 1816 and Erving Professor of Chemistry from 1816 to 1827 at Harvard University. Gorham helped establish the chemistry department at the Harvard Medical School. His treatise on chemistry, The Elements of Chemical Science (1819-1820), was one of the first systematic text books on chemistry adapted to the needs of college students in Amer...