Testimonials, submitted to the consideration of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.

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[1818?]
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    formly found him ardent id the pursuit of that kind of science. 11 is actual attainments are of the high and respectable order, and he seems to be particu- larly qualified for devising and constructing experi- ments. It gives me pleasure to write you thi3 opi- nion ; and be assured, sir, of my service and respect. [Signed] SAMUEL L. MITCHELL. Extract from the Eclf.o rtcK Repertory, edited by a Society of Physicians, for July 1817, Vol. vii., No. 3, published by Thomas Dobson. Yale College, April 7th, 1817. VARIOUS notices, more or less complete, chiefly copied from English newspapers, are now go- ing the round of the publick prints in this country, stating that a new kind of fife has been disco- vered in England ; or, at least new, and heretofore unparalleled means of exciting heat, by which the gems, and all the most refractory substances in na- ture, are immediately melted, and even in various instances, dissipated in vapour, or decomposed into their elements. The first glance at the:-a statements (which, as regards the eft'ects, I have no doubt are substantially true) was sufficient to satisfy me, that the basis of these achievements was laid by an Ame- rican discovery, made by Mr. Robert Hare, of Phi- ladelphia, in 1801. In December of that year, Mr. Hare communicated to the Chytnical Society of Phi- ladelphia, his discovery of a method of burning oxy-