Summary of a memorial to be presented to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost ... respecting the institution of a professorship of practical chemistry in the University of Edinburgh / [Thomas Charles Hope].

  • Thomas Charles Hope
Date:
1833]
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Credit: Summary of a memorial to be presented to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost ... respecting the institution of a professorship of practical chemistry in the University of Edinburgh / [Thomas Charles Hope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hope and Dr Reid, in the proportion of one-third to Dr Hope and two-thirds to Dr Reid. 4th, That the whole expenses of every description, in¬ cluding sub-assistants and servant's wages, fuel, gas, materials to be consumed in the experiments, repair of all damage, pur¬ chase of apparatus to replace breakages, and whatever addi¬ tional apparatus might be required on account of the in¬ creasing number of students, should be defrayed at the joint expense, in the proportion of one-third by Dr Hope and two-thirds by Dr Reid 5th, That Dr Hope should continue to pay Dr Reid a salary of L. 50. Dr Reid expressed himself perfectly satisfied with every part of this arrangement, with the exception of the providing the new apparatus at the joint expense, as he wished to take that burden entirely upon himself, from the desire of being the sole proprietor of the whole moveable apparatus. With this exception, the terms now stated were agreed up¬ on, and continued in force for three years; but they are no longer so. Dr Reid has chosen to give an incorrect statement of this agreement. He represents that Dr Hope drew one-third of the profits, and loaded Dr Reid with the whole heavy cur¬ rent expenses, as well as the expense of providing an exten¬ sion of the apparatus, and that in consequence Dr Reid de¬ rived the most trifling and inadequate remuneration for his meritorious labour and expenditure.— Vide page 11. line 18, and p. 18, art. 4. &c. * * Dr Hope refers to the pages of Dr Reid’s Memorial presented to the Council, and to the Professors of the University. Many weeks after that Memorial had been before the public, Dr Reid distributed a reprint of it, differently paged, in which the article No. 4. p. 18., above alluded to, is re-modelled. In it, the misstatement which he had given in that article is in part, but in part only, corrected—Vide Reprint, p. 20. art. 4. et seq. If Dr Reid, conscious that he had laid an erroneous statement
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