rk Walrod Harrington, '68, until 1892; later
he became President of the University of Washington. He was succeeded by
William J. Hussey, '89. Since the death of Professor Olney in 1887, the
Department of Mathematics has been under the charge of Wooster W. Beman,
'70, a member of the Faculty since 1871, whose name now stands first as
to length of service on the academic roster.

Albert Benjamin Prescott, '64_m_, who eventually succeeded Dr. Silas H.
Douglas as Director of the Chemical Laboratory, became Assistant
Professor of Chemistry in 1865. He organized the course in Pharmacy
three years later, becoming Professor of Organic and Applied Chemistry
and of Pharmacy in 1870. In 1876 he became Dean of the new College of
Pharmacy and in 1884 Director of the Chemical Laboratory. Upon his death
in 1905 he was succeeded as Director of the Chemical Laboratory by
Edward DeMille Campbell, '86, who had been Professor of Chemical
Engineering and Analytical Chemistry since 1902. After the retirement of
Professor Williams in 1877, Charles K. Wead, Vermont, '71, became Acting
Professor of Physics, to be succeeded in 1885 by Henry Smith Carhart,
Wesleyan, '69, who held the chair of Physics and the Directorship of the
Physical Laboratory until his retirement in 1905. His successor was John
Oren Reed, '85, who became also Dean of the Literary Department in 1907.
Upon Dean Reed's death in 1916 the Professorship of Physics passed to
Harrison McAllister Randall, '93, who became Director of the Physical
Laboratory in 1918.

[Illustration: THE UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY
The original building at the right]

[Illustration: HILL AUDITORIUM]

[Illustration: THE CHEMISTRY BUILDING]

[Illustration: THE NATURAL SCIENCE BUILDING]

At the end of Professor Winchell's first period in the University in
'73, the several subjects which comprised his professorship were
divided. The chair of Botany passed to Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, Ph.D.,
Heidelberg, '53, who was succeeded two years later by Volney Morgan
Spalding, '73, as Instructor in Botany and Zooelogy, becoming Professor
of Botany in 1886. Upon his resignation in 1904 the chair was occupied
by Frederick Charles Newcombe, '90. The work in Zooelogy passed to Joseph
Beal Steere, '68, who became an Assistant Professor in 1876, after five
years of travel in the interests of the University in South America,
China, and the East Indies, where he collected some 20,000 specimens for
the Museum. He became Prof