A memorial to the patrons of the University on the present state of practical chemistry / by David Boswell Reid.

Date:
1833
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Credit: A memorial to the patrons of the University on the present state of practical chemistry / by David Boswell Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ A copy of the above Report was sent to Dr Reid by the Royal College, accompanied by a Letter from the Secre- tary, stating that it had been unanimously adopted.] Thus, then, the Patrons will observe, that Dr Hope’s name was connected with Dr Reid’s Course solely from a circum- stance which was in itself purely accidental; and that, after all, it did not.secure the object intended. II Dr Reid had been a member of the College of Surgeons at the time their regula- tions were enforced, it would never have appeared there at all. He may be allowed to add, that, after the very special pri- vilege which the Royal College of Surgeons had the goodness to give him expired, the Courses which he has since given in the University have still qualified in his right alone, having then become a member of the Royal College of Physicians. Three years’ trial of the plan agreed to, after the Royal College rendered Practical Chemistry imperative, proved to Dr Reid, that, while it had nearly doubled his labour, it had scarcely added any thing to his income. Being con- vinced, moreover, from the heavy expenses connected with the Practical Class, and the assiduous labour necessary to its successful teaching, that it cannot afford to be burdened with any allowance to the Professor,—that its progress is necessarily checked by being in any way under the control of another, who considers its rising importance injurious to the interests of his class,—and that there is no security for the permanence of his situation in the University, Dr Reid has given in his resignation.