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Selected Dates in American Chemistry October
In a letter published in Science, G. N. Flerov of Dubna, U.S.S.R. questions the claims of Albert Ghiorso's group at the University of California, Berkeley, to the discovery of element 105. October 3,1811 A long article on spontaneous combustion by A. S. (Adam Seyhert?), the second to he submitted by the Columhian Chemical Society, appears in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania newspaper, Aurora. October 5, 1861 The Chemical Society of Union College, a precursor of the American Chemical Society, is founded. Octoher 11,1798 "Experiments relating to the Cakes of Metals; communicated in a fifth Letter from Dr. Priestley toDr. Mitchill. Octoher 11,1798" appears in the Medical Repository, 2,263 (1799). Octoher 12, 1795 Aaron Dexter, the first professor of chemistry at the Harvard Medical School, gives his first lecture on "The History of the Origin and Rise of Chemistry.'' October 2,1970
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Dr. William T. G. Morton demonstrates the use of ether as an anesthetic at the Massachusetts General Hospital. October 17,1783 The Harvard Medical School opens. October 24,1789 Benjamin Rush is elected Professor of Medicine at the College of Philadelphia. October 24,1801 A committee, of which Robert Hare, Jr. is a member, is appointed by the Chemical Society of Philadelphia to discover a means by which greater concentration of heat might be obtained for chemical purposes. October 28,1864 Charles F. Chandler retires as President of the Chemical Society of Union College. October 30,1974 Leo Weisbecker of Stanford Research Institute announces that the Colorado River's water supplies can be increased by almost 17%through seeding winter clouds of the upper river basin to produce more snow. Octoher 16,1846
