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this subject nine and a half hours per week for a year,
and we go through a course in qualitative analysis.

While in college I studied mainly under the late
Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, also late president of the
American Academy of Science, pursuing very advanced
courses in chemistry and mineralogy, a fact that he men--
tions in the testimonial enclosed. It is to him that I
owe not only so much of my knowledge of chemistry, but
to him I am indebted also for a knowledge of the rational
and progressive system of instruction in chemistry, which he
originated as the founder of laboratory teaching in America.

I have always taken an interest in general school