. History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College). founder. Equally notable was Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, vicepresident of the College, senator of the United States,professor of Chemistry and Natural History. He wasbetween forty and fifty years of age, and of wide re-putation as a man of talent and t© his biographers he was a kind of hu-man dictionary, whose opinion was sought byschemers and inventors of every grade, and whocould be consulted with profit on any question ofscience, history or politics. He
. History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College). founder. Equally notable was Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, vicepresident of the College, senator of the United States,professor of Chemistry and Natural History. He wasbetween forty and fifty years of age, and of wide re-putation as a man of talent and t© his biographers he was a kind of hu-man dictionary, whose opinion was sought byschemers and inventors of every grade, and whocould be consulted with profit on any question ofscience, history or politics. He was equally distin-guished for his learning and originality, and for his hospitality to new ideas. He could discourse inturn on a Babylonian brick, meteoric stones, the theoryof chemical combination, the construction of a wind-mill,the fishes of North America, or the geology of Niagara OF THE COLLEGE. 23 Falls. He was one of the founders and editors of theNew York Medical Repository, the earliest medicalperiodical in the United States, and he was for twentyyears indefatigable in contributing to its success. He. Samuel L. .Mitciiili-, Vice President of the College, 1807-1811. Senator of the United States,1804-1S09. Professor of Chemistry, 1807-1808; of Natural History and Hotany,1808-1820; and of Botany and Materia Medica, 1820-1826. From an engravedcopy of the portrait l)y Jarvis, now in llie lihrary liall of Columbia College ;painted about 1815. 24 EARLY YEARS obtained from Congress the appropriation for the de-fences of New York harbor ; he aided De Witt CHn-ton in his project for the Erie canal, and was theorator of the day at the ceremony of its inauguration ;he beheved in Robert Fultons idea of steam naviga-tion, and went on the trial trip of his first steamboatto Albany. Disinterested, patriotic, engaging andcommunicative, he was an influential character in thecreation and development of American science. Dr. Edward Miller, professor of Practice andClinical Medicin
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