Testimonials regarding Dr D. B. Reid's qualifications as a lecturer on chemistry, and as a teacher of practical chemistry.

Date:
1833
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Credit: Testimonials regarding Dr D. B. Reid's qualifications as a lecturer on chemistry, and as a teacher of practical chemistry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X. From James Simpson, Esq. Advocate. My Dear Sir, ^ uuiji u MBERLAN 1 ]th February 1833, It must delight every friend to science, to the arts of use and ornament in this manufacturing country, and to the comfort, safety, power and resource of man, to learn that the Patrons of the University of Edinburgh have now their attention called to that inestimable improvement, a per- manent class of Practical Chemistry within its walls; I say within, for otherwise it will establish itself without, by its own demonstrated intrinsic excellence. Great as has been your success hitherto, greater yet aivaits you, and a crowd of students must follow you, if you are Un' fortunately permitted to leave our College, carrying with you your valuable and extensive apparatus, and, far more valu able, your enviable power of putting it to use, and teaching othe.s to do so. No one who knows and appreciates thf system of your practical laboratory, can doubt that you have created the Chair which you are naturally and laudably am bitious to fil and that a Professorship, a Professor, and an apparatus all of first-rate excellence, maybe said to be “ rea y in efficient operation, wanting only the fiat of the Pa trons to extend their efficiency, by giving status> ind dence, and dignity to a new school so well entitled to these popular advantages. “r Ttended m0re than one Chemical lecture*,but in have I seen so extensive, minute, accurate, and ready a store of chemical knowledge, so adroit and almost infallible as manipulation, or so clear, attractive, and fluent an elocution and that w.thout the aid of a note_as in yourself. ’ c 2