Letter from Benjamin Waterhouse to Eliphalet Pearson, April 10, 1805.

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Letter from Benjamin Waterhouse to Eliphalet Pearson, April 10, 1805.

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Two leaves containing a three-page handwritten letter from Harvard Medical School Professor Benjamin Waterhouse to Harvard Professor (and Interim President) Eliphalet Pearson requesting the attendance fee be increased for Waterhouse's course of Natural History. In his justification, Waterhouse noted that he had expanded the number of lectures in the course and had spent money on related research materials. In a postscript, Waterhouse also requested a yearly sum for keeping the mineral cabinet with the justification that "Elias Richardson received 50 dollars for keeping the key of the arsenal, and black Peter 52 per annum for burning the chimnies & scraping up manure in the College yard."

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

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Letter regarding Waterhouse's teaching at Harvard Medical School and his membership in the Massachusetts Medical Society. From the description of Letter to Caleb Strong, 1812. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231052789 Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) was the Hersey Professor ofthe Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1783 to 1812. He was given an honorary degree by Harvard in 1786. He earned an MD from Leyden in 1780. He also was a professor ...

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