Records of the Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy kept by John White Webster, 1824-1835 and undated.

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Records of the Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy kept by John White Webster, 1824-1835 and undated.

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This collection documents the teaching and administrative activities of John White Webster, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, and provides an overview of Webster's supervision of the Harvard chemical laboratory and use of scientific instruments and drawings in experiments and lectures at Harvard from 1824 to 1835.

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