The History of Dartmouth College Part 56

CONTENTS OF CULVER HALL.

Culver Hall has 1. The Hall Collection of Minerals, worth $5,000 by estimate when presented to the College about forty years since. 2.

Minerals and rocks collected since, of no great value. 3. Minerals, fossils, and a collection of 2,000 specimens from Maine deposited by Professor Hitchc.o.c.k. 4. A small zoological collection. 5. A large cast of animals from Ward's University Series. 6. Antiquities. In the story below is one room devoted to an excellent herbarium, another to the natural objects obtained from the States of New Hamps.h.i.+re and Vermont.

These are largely those collected by the State Geologist, consisting of 4,000-5,000 specimens ill.u.s.trating the rocks. A wall of sections, where specimens have been collected along thirteen lines east and west through New Hamps.h.i.+re and Vermont; and colored geological profiles behind, on the wall. A case of maps, ten in number, showing such physical features of New Hamps.h.i.+re as these: geological structure, surface geology, distribution of fauna, distribution of trees, areas occupied by forests in 1874, hydrographic basins, isothermal lines, amount of annual rainfall, distribution of soils and the topography by means of contour lines. There is a large model or relief map of the State on a table, scale one mile to the inch horizontally, and 1,000 feet to the inch vertically, about fifteen feet long, with the town boundaries, names of villages, rivers, ponds, railroads, and mountains inserted in their proper places; other collections are of the economic products of New Hamps.h.i.+re and Vermont, their minerals and fossils. A large collection of birds and 1,000 species of insects are here also, presented by Professor H. Fairbanks.

The Geological recitation room has a large map of the United States in it, and a case of drawers containing minerals, rocks, fossils, models of crystals and other collections for use in giving instruction. The laboratory is in two parts, one for general and the other for a.n.a.lytical instruction. Agricultural College library in second story, and several recitation rooms. Small working shop for Thayer Department in the bas.e.m.e.nt.

PICTURES IN THE HALLS OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

1. Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., Founder.

2. Rev. Francis Brown, D.D.

3. The Same.

4. Rev. Bennet Tyler, D.D.

5. Rev. Nathan Lord, D.D., LL. D.

6. Ebenezer Adams, A. M., F. R. S.

7. Rev. Roswell Shurtleff, D.D.

8. Nathan Smith, M.D.

9. Cyrus Perkins, M.D.

10. Charles B. Haddock, LL. D.

11. William Chamberlain, A. M.

12. Dixi Crosby, M.D., LL. D.

13. Albert Smith, M.D., LL. D.

14. Rev. Benjamin Hale, D.D.

15. Ira Young, A. M.

16. Rev. David Peabody, A. M.

17. Rev. Sam'l G. Brown, D.D., LL. D.

18. Rev. Dan'l J. Noyes, D.D.

19. Edwin D. Sanborn, LL. D.

20. Stephen Chase, A. M.

21. Edmund R. Peaslee, M.D., LL. D.

22. John S. Woodman, A. M.

23. Rev. John N. Putnam, A. M.

24. Rev. Charles A. Aiken, D.D., Ph. D.

25. Hon. James W. Patterson, LL. D.

26. William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth.

27. John Phillips, LL. D.

28. Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker, D.D.

29. Hon. Daniel Webster, LL. D.

30. The Same (large picture).

31. The Same (head and bust).

32. Hon. Jeremiah Mason, LL. D.

33. Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL. D.

34. Hon. Joseph Hopkinson.

35. Amos Twitch.e.l.l, M.D.

36. Richard Fletcher, LL. D.

37. Hon. Matthew Harvey.

38. Hon. Charles Marsh.

39. Hon. Rufus Choate, LL. D. (in action).

40. The Same (head and bust).

41. Richard B. Kimball, LL. D.

42. Abiel Chandler.

43. Samuel Appleton, A. M.

44. Rev. Samson Occom.

45. John Conant.

46. Gen. Sylva.n.u.s Thayer, LL. D.

47. Hon. John Quincy Adams, LL. D.

48. A Knight in Armor.

49. A Lady (a companion picture).

50. Supposed to be a portrait of an Italian poet.

51. An untouched photograph of the original of Stuart's Was.h.i.+ngton.

52. An untouched photograph of Daniel Webster.

53. A bust of Rev. Nathan Lord, D.D., LL. D.

54. John Hubbard, A. M.

55. Alpheus Crosby, A. M.

56. Thomas R. Crosby, M.D.

57. Pres. J. Wheelock.

58. Rev. George T. Chapman, D.D.

The picture gallery also contains six slabs, with seven heroic figures, from Nineveh, the gift of Sir Henry Rawlinson, obtained by Rev. Austin H. Wright, D.D., of Ooroomiah, Persia.

In 1862 an inventory of the Philosophical Apparatus belonging to the college was taken, and the transfer was made to the Appleton Fund; the amount of this inventory was $2,352.75. While Rev. H. Fairbanks occupied the chair of Natural Philosophy about $800 was paid out.

Prof. C. A. Young expended over $5,000 for apparatus while he had charge of the department. Most of the apparatus is in good condition, and its value is not far from $10,000.

For the Astronomical Department Prof. C. A. Young raised among the Alumni and friends of the college, mostly in New England, over $5,000, to put the Observatory in good condition.

Recent liberal donations to the College from the State, and from Hon.

E. W. Stoughton, of New York, have enabled the Faculty to put the Medical Building in complete repair throughout. A suitable room for a Pathological Museum has been finished, which is frequently receiving specimens of diseased structure. The supply of plates, models, etc., is very ample, and is freely used in ill.u.s.tration of the lectures.

LEADING DONORS TO THE ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT, SINCE THE DEATH OF THE FOUNDER.

Samuel Appleton, founder of the Appleton Professors.h.i.+p.

George H. Bissell ($24,000), founder of Bissell Hall.

Henry Bond, for the Library.

Salmon P. Chase.

David Culver ($25,000), founder of Culver Hall.

William E. Dodge.

Israel Evans, founder of the Evans Professors.h.i.+p.

Richard Fletcher.

James W. Grimes.

Frederic Hall, founder of the Hall Professors.h.i.+p.

Jeremiah Kingman, for Scholars.h.i.+ps.