Records of the Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy kept by John White Webster

Scope and Contents This series consists of outgoing correspondence written by John White Webster documenting his teaching and administrative activities as Lecturer on Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, and as Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Harvard from 1824 to 1835. The correspondence to President John T....

Scope and Contents The faculty reports in this series were written to Jacob Bigelow, Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts, John Farrar, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and President John T. Kirkland from 1824 to 1827. The reports contain various statistics...

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This document records the number of senior and junior class absences from John White Webster's chemical exercises from January to March 1828.

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This series contains a drawing illustrating a proposed ten foot addition to what is probably the chemical laboratory at Harvard. The drawing delineates the location of the laboratory's lecture room, laboratory area, window space, and door and entrance ways. The drawing is addressed to the President and Corporation of Harvard College.