Chandler, Charles Chemist

Especially in the earlier years studied, a further problem involves the credentials of chemistry faculty at small, obscure institutions. The best-known nineteenth-century survey of academic chemists in America — Frank W. Clarke s Report on the Teaching of Chemistry and Physics in the United States (1881) - justifiably counts such notables as Ira Remsen, Josiah Parsons Cooke, and Charles F. Chandler among the nation s chemistry faculty. It includes in the same totals such dubious figures as the two unnamed teachers of chemistry at Simpson Centenary College in Indianola, Iowa. (The chemistry curriculum at Simpson is described — in toto — as one-third of a year of general chemistry for juniors, with experiments by the teacher, but no regular laboratory work for pupils. In addition, the survey reports that the teachers were required to teach physics and other subjects besides chemistry.) ... 

The first successful American scholarly journal devoted to chemistry was the American Chemist, which evolved from a supplement to an American reprint edition of the British Chemical News that was begun in 1868. Charles F. and William H. Chandler acquired the rights to the reprint edition and its supplement, out of which they launched the American Chemist in 1870. Prior to the Chandlers journalistic venture, the major indigenous outlet for chemical research was Benjamin Silliman s American Journal of Science. The most prestigious route for publication had been to send papers abroad to Liebig s Annalen der Chemie, Erdmann s Journal fur praktische Chemie, or. 

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