James Cutbush, an American Chemist, 1788-1823Smith, Edgar Fahs
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James Cutbush, an American Chemist, 1788-1823
Smith, Edgar Fahs
Chemists -- United States -- Biography; Cutbush, James, 1788-1823
"Having commenced a course of experimental lectures on
Chemistry to ladies, proposes to give a similar course to
gentlemen at a different hour. Twelve o'clock is the hour
fixed for the former, but as the gentlemen of the city are
variously engaged in business during the day, an evening hour
will be more convenient for them. The evening course is
particularly intended to accommodate men who have a taste for
scientific information and who cannot, on account of their
respective engagements during the day, attend the lectures
in the University.
"A course for gentlemen will commence on Tuesday and will
terminate in the last week of February. The hour will be
seven o'clock in the evening. Two lectures at least,
sometimes three, will be delivered every week. About 1500
interesting experiments will be exhibited and submitted to
the familiar inspection of the class. Several important
experiments not hitherto introduced in any series of chemical
demonstrations in this place will be displayed in the
illustrations of different subjects.
"The laboratory is in the lecturer's house in South Ninth
Street, opposite the University and is furnished with an
excellent chemical apparatus.
"The tickets for this course will be ten dollars. The persons
to take tickets will be entitled to the use of the
lecturer's excellent medical and chemical library during the
season.
"Persons wishing to attend this course will please call at
the lecturer's home at any time before next Tuesday in order
to enter the names on the list.
"Ladies are informed that the list of subscribers to their
course will not be closed until next Monday at twelve o'clock
at the hour the next lecture, properly the first of the
regular series, will be delivered. Gentlemen are not admitted
to these lectures."
In 1810 Dr. Rogers gave out a Syllabus of 12 octavo pages "On
Experimental Lectures on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry," in which
great emphasis was laid on the practical application of these
sciences. It also stated that "it is even esteemed, in some measure,
a cause of shame, for persons of respectable education, to be
ignorant of their general principles." In one newspaper announcement
Rogers said that in order to get sufficient space for his audience he
had procured the "use of the elegant and spacious ball room of M.
Guillou." In this special work he was repeating the labors of Sir
Humphrey Davy in London. In reality, Rogers and his contemporaries and
coadjutors were pioneer University Extension Lecturers. They sought to
popularize the natural and physical sciences and also broaden the
vision or outlook of their hearers. In the case of Cutbush there was a
strong desire to utilize chemistry in manufacture. This he emphasized
more strongly than any other lecturer.
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