See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

BENJAMIN See also:

• BENJAMIN SILLIMAN (1779-1864)

SILLIMAN (1779-1864)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American chemist and geologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 8th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1779 at See also:

• TRUMBULL, JAMES HAMMOND (1821-1897)
• TRUMBULL, JOHN (1750-1831)
• TRUMBULL, JOHN (1756-1843)
• TRUMBULL, JONATHAN (1710-1785)
• TRUMBULL, LYMAN (1813-1896)

Trumbull (then called See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• STRATFORD
• STRATFORD, JOHN DE (d. 1348)

Stratford), See also:

• CONNECTICUT

Connecticut . Entering Yale See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 1i92, he graduated in 1796, became See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor in 1799, and in 1802 was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry and See also:

• MINERALOGY

mineralogy, a position which he retained till 1853, when by his own See also:

• DESIRE

desire he retired as professor See also:

• EMERITUS (Lat. from emereri, to serve out one's time, to earn thoroughly)

emeritus . Not only was he a popular and successful teacher of chemistry, mineralogy and See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology in the college for See also:

• HALF

half a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but he also did much to improve and extend its educational resources, especially in regard to its mineralogical collections, the Trumbull See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

Gallery of Pictures, the Medical Institution and the See also:

• SHEFFIELD
• SHEFFIELD, JOHN BAKER HOLROYD, 1ST EARL

Sheffield Scientific School . Outside Yale he was well known as one of the few men who could hold the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention of a popular See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience with a scientific lecture, and on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his clear and interesting See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, as well as of the unwonted splendour of his illustrative experiments, his services were in See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request not only in the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern and eastern states but also in those of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south . His See also:

• ORIGINAL

original investigations were neither numerous nor important, and his name is best known to scientific men as the founder, and from 1818 to 1838 the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole editor, of the American See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science and Arts—often called See also:

• SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN (1779-1864)

Silliman's Journal,—one of the foremost American scientific serials . In 1810 he published A Journal of Travels in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland and See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, in which he described a visit to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe undertaken in 1805 in preparation for the duties of his See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair . He paid a second visit in 1851, of which he also issued an account, and among his other publications were Elements of Chemistry (183,0), and See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of W . See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry's Chemistry with notes (1808), and of R . See also:

• BAKEWELL
• BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1725-1795)
• BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1768–1843)

Bakewell's Geology (1827) . He died at New Haven on the 24th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1864 . His son, See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

BENJAMIN SILLIarAN (1816-1885), chemist and mineralogist, was born at New Haven on the 4th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1816 . After graduating at Yale in 1837 he became assistant to his See also:

• FATHER

father, and in 1847 was appointed professor in the school of applied chemistry, which was largely due to his efforts and formed the See also:

• NUCLEUS (Lat. for the kernal of a nut, nux, the stone of fruit)

nucleus of the subsequent Sheffield Scientific School .

In 1849 he was appointed professor of medical chemistry and See also:

• TOXICOLOGY

toxicology in the Medical College at See also:

• LOUISVILLE

Louisville, See also:

• KENTUCKY

Kentucky, but relinquished that See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in 1854 to succeed his father in the chair of chemistry at Yale . The duties of this professorship, so far as they related to the See also:

• ACADEMIC

Academic College, he gave up in 1870, but he retained his connexion with the Medical College till his See also:

• DEATH

death, which happened at New Haven on the 14th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1885 . Much of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, especially during the last twenty years of his See also:

• LIFE

life, was absorbed in making See also:

• EXAMINATIONS

examinations of mines and preparing See also:

• EXPERT (Lat. expertus, from experiri, to try)

expert reports on technical processes of chemical manufacture; but he was also able to do a certain amount of original See also:

• WORK

work, See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing papers on the chemistry of various minerals, on meteorites, on See also:

• PHOTOGRAPHY (Gr. bias, light, and ypa w, to write)
• PHOTOGRAPHY, CELESTIAL

photography with the electric arc, the See also:

• ILLUMINATING

illuminating See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of See also:

• GAS

gas, &c . A course of lectures given by him on agricultural chemistry in the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter of 1845-1846 at New See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans is believed to have been the first of its See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind in the See also:

• UNITED

United States . In 1846 he published First Principles of Chemistry and in 1858 First Principles of Physics or Natural See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

Philosophy, both of which had a large circulation . In 18J3 he edited a large See also:

• QUARTO

quarto illustrated See also:

• VOLUME

volume, The See also:

• WORLD

World of Science, See also:

• ART

Art and See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

Industry, which was followed in 1854 by The Progress of Science and Mechanism . In 1874, when the loath anniversary of See also:

• PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH (1733-1804)

Priestley's preparation of See also:

• OXYGEN (symbol 0, atomic weight 16)

oxygen was celebrated as the " Centennial of Chemistry" at See also:

• NORTHUMBERLAND
• NORTHUMBERLAND, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• NORTHUMBERLAND, JOHN DUDLEY, VISCOUNT LISLE, EARL OF WARWICK
• NORTHUMBERLAND, JOHN NEVILLE, EARL OF (c. 1430-1471)

Northumberland, Pa., where Priestley died, he delivered an See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical address on " American Contributions to Chemistry," which contains a full See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list, with their See also:

• WORKS

works, of American chemists up to that date . From 1838 to 1845 he was associated with his father in the editorship of the American Journal of Science, and from 1845 to the end of his life his name appeared on the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page as one of the editors in See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief .