Dartmouth College. Dartmouth Scientific Association

Biography

The Dartmouth Scientific Association was founded on February 12, 1870. It grew out of a small club, then recently formed, composed of teachers in the College who had arranged among themselves a method of exchange of Scientific periodicals. This arrangement was so satisfactory that it very soon assumed the name of the "Dartmouth Association for Scientific Periodicals."

The seven members of the periodical club became the charter members, so-called, of this Association. They were: Charles H. Hitchcock, Hall Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Dartmouth College; Charles A. Young, Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Astronomy, Dartmouth College; Thomas R. Crosby, Professor of Animal and Vegetable Physiology, Agricultural College; Lycortas B. Hall, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History, Chandler School; Ezekiel W. Dimond, Professor of General and Ap plied Chemistry, Agricultural College; Elihu T. Quimby, Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering, Dartmouth College; Charles F. Emerson, Tutor in Mathematics, Dartmouth College.

The meetings of the Association were generally held, by invitation, at the houses of the members, during the first few years. Between 1875 and 1893, the Association found a home in the Thayer Rooms in Thornton Hall, first floor, southeast corner. When in 1893 the Agricultural College moved to Durham and the Thayer School took possession of their building on South Park Street, giving up the Thornton Hall rooms, the Association divided its housing between Dartmouth Hall, Butterfield Museum and Tuck Hall, until in 1908, it found its present pleasant home in Wilder Hall.

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