Lyman C. Newell Boston University Boston. Massachusetts
Chemical Education in America from the Earliest Days to 1820
Chemistry occupied the attention of the first settlers in America. At Jamestown the manufacture of glass and other materials was begun soon after the colonists landed. I n New England John Winthrop, Jr., who came to Boston in 1631, established several chemical industries, the most important being salt and iron. Throughout his life he was involved in many chemical exploitations, and he was the forerunner of many who utilized chemistry in manufacturine needed suhstances. Winthrop was alsb interested in t i e relation of chemistry to medicine. This ioint field. thoueh somewhat empirical, was for many years
