Calendar of Board Minutes 1776-1876

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1912 Excerpt: ... Second degree in the arts conferred on Dr. Draper 'of this institution.'1 1Dr. Draper, whose home at this time was at Christiansville (now Chase City) in Mecklenburg County, had a few months before graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The following extract from the Farmers' Register (IV, 315) will serve to explain Dr. Draper's connection with the College before Sept. 1836, the date of his election to a Professorship.--Proceedings of the Mineralogical Society of Virginia. At a meeting of several gentlemen, held at Prince Edward Court House, on Saturday, July 23d 1836, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, Dr. W. B. Smith was appointed Chairman, and Dr. B. F. Wilson Secretary. The objects of this meeting were, to consider, what measures are most likely to develop an intimate and extensive knowledge of the mineral wealth of the State of Virginia, and to put into operation such means as may tend to render those resources available to the purposes of public good. Analytical Chemistry, which is the science furnishing the knowledge necessary, is not taught as a branch of education in any of the public institutions of the United States, and those persons who are acquainted with it, have almost entirely obtained their knowledge of it in foreign countries. The number of such, of course, is very limited, and totally inadequate to the demand. The meeting therefore was fully impressed with the high importance, to the public, of providing ample instruction, by the immediate establishment of a school of chemical analysis, assaying of metals, and of all those operations which are concerned in the determination of the value of minerals and ores. It is hoped by the establishment of a school in which all subjects in any manner connected with minera...