Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . erlin, spending a year and a half inthese two laborato-ries. Later he passedfive months in Gies-sen, studying organicchemistry under Lie-big, and afterward at-tended the lectureson physics in the Col-lege of France byRegnault. In 184*8he returned to theUnited States andgave a short courseof lectures at Dela-ware college, Newark,Del. From 1849 till180:5 he held the chairof physics and chem-in the College of the city of New York, andthen was elected to the Rumford professorship in:id university with the charge of the labora-tory of the Lawrence scien
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . erlin, spending a year and a half inthese two laborato-ries. Later he passedfive months in Gies-sen, studying organicchemistry under Lie-big, and afterward at-tended the lectureson physics in the Col-lege of France byRegnault. In 184*8he returned to theUnited States andgave a short courseof lectures at Dela-ware college, Newark,Del. From 1849 till180:5 he held the chairof physics and chem-in the College of the city of New York, andthen was elected to the Rumford professorship in:id university with the charge of the labora-tory of the Lawrence scientific school, which chairas since held. On the reorganization of theuniversity subsequent to the election of Charles to the presidency the teaching of chemistrya isferred to the collegiate department, andthe subjects ,,f heat and Lighl were assigned to During the years when he directed thechemical laboratorythe school attained its greatestrity, and many of its most distinguished grad-[Uired their knowledge of chemistry from. KQjuJthM* his teaching. Like his colleague, Louis Agassiz, heattracted to him students who became his personalfriends and who have ever maintained a filial re-gard tor him. During the civil war he was activelyassociated in the labors of the U. S. sanitary com-mission, and was a member of its executive com-mittee in New York city. The members of thisorganization were compelled to meet each otheralmost daily, and out of their work grew the Unionleague club of New York. Dr. Gibbs was the firstto suggest that the idea on which the sanitary com-mission was formed needed to take the form of aclub which should be devoted to the social or-ganization of sentiments of loyalty to the original meeting to consider the feasibility ofthe plan was held at his residence on 30 Jan., was appointed a commissioner to the Vienna ex-hibition in 1873, and contributed to the governmentreports a valuable paper on his examination of theinstruments
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